5 highlights from Trump's X interview with Elon Musk
#TamponTim
Trump hit at Harris' running mate Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., for supporting a 2023 state education law that potentially mandated free tampons in public school boys' bathrooms.
Musk asked Trump to comment on apparent attempts to portray Vice President Kamala Harris as a moderate despite her far-left political record, which he described as an "overnight propaganda attempt."
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"Her running mate approved, signed into legislation, tampons in boys' bathrooms, OK?" Trump said as Musk laughed. "Now, that's all I have to hear. Tampons in boys' bathrooms. And that means she believes in that, too!"
Trump added that she picked Walz because she is closest to him as "an anti-Israel, radical left person," and that if the two of them win, he doesn't think "the country can survive."
On the same day he was announced as Harris' running mate, #TamponTim began trending on X from users mocking him for his tampon policy.
CBS News reported that the mandate for free menstrual products in school bathrooms was "drawing fresh attention as the Trump campaign seeks to criticize Walz for the law, claiming it requires school districts to supply tampons and pads to both female and male bathrooms due to transgender boys who may menstruate."
The outlet noted that the law does not specify in which bathrooms menstrual supplies must be located, but required school districts to ensure that all students who menstruate must have access to free supplies, according to Lacey Gero, who serves as director of government relations at the advocacy group Alliance for Period Supplies.
The backlash to the tampon policy prompted comment from Trump's 2016 opponent Hillary Clinton, who tweeted a meme of Walz's face on a box of tampons and wrote, "How nice of the Trump camp to help publicize Gov. Tim Walz's compassionate and common-sense policy of providing free menstrual products to students in Minnesota public schools! Let's do this everywhere."
Clinton did not mention that the Minnesota law potentially placed tampons in boys' bathrooms.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Post. Send news tips to [email protected]
