Maine Gov. Janet Mills responds to Trump's demand for apology over trans-athlete policies

President Donald Trump called for Maine Gov. Janet Mills to apologize to him implicit her state's reluctance to travel his enforcement bid to prohibition trans athletes from girls sports implicit the weekend, and Mills has present responded without an apology.

Mills spoke to reporters successful Bangor connected Monday, rebuffing Trump and insisting her state's reluctance to travel his enforcement bid is rooted successful "the regularisation of law." 

"My contented is astir the regularisation of law, axenic and simple," Mills said. "It's not astir transgender sports; it's astir who makes the laws and who enforces the laws. I work the Constitution. The Constitution says that the president, the main executive, shall instrumentality attraction that the laws beryllium faithfully executed. It doesn't let him to marque laws retired of full cloth by tweet oregon Instagram station oregon property merchandise oregon enforcement order."

Mills besides condemned Trump for his stance connected termination and tariffs, and ne'er erstwhile referred to the president by name.

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Janet Mills, politician of Maine, during the governors moving league successful the State Dining Room of the White House successful Washington, DC, US, connected Friday, Feb. 21, 2025. (Francis Chung/Politico/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"We've seen policies that endanger women and girls crossed the country," Mills said. "If the existent occupant of the White House wants to support women and girls, helium should commencement by protecting the women and teenage girls who are suffering miscarriages and dying due to the fact that they can't get basic, life-saving healthcare successful states crossed the country.

"Look, the contented isn't astir transgender sports. People successful Maine and crossed the state are waiting for an economical program from the existent occupant of the White House. And truthful far, we've seen none. We've seen tariffs and threats of tariffs that endanger our system present successful Maine and crossed the country."

Trump's archetypal request for an apology from Mills came successful a Truth Social station connected Saturday morning. 

"While the State of Maine has apologized for their Governor’s strong, but wholly incorrect, connection astir men playing successful women’s sports portion astatine the White House Governor’s Conference, we person not heard from the Governor herself, and she is the 1 that matters successful specified cases," Trump said.

"Therefore, we request a afloat throated apology from the Governor herself, and a connection that she volition ne'er marque specified an unlawful situation to the Federal Government again, earlier this lawsuit tin beryllium settled. I’m definite she volition beryllium capable to bash that rather easily. Thank you for your attraction to this substance and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! DJT"

A feud betwixt the 2 began connected Feb. 20, erstwhile Trump threatened to chopped national backing to the authorities for not banning trans athletes from girls and women's sports, during a GOP gathering of governors. 

The adjacent day, Mills' bureau responded with a connection threatening ineligible enactment against the Trump medication if it did withhold national backing from the state. Then, Trump and Mills verbally sparred successful a widely-publicized statement astatine the White House during a bipartisan gathering of governors.

"Are you not going to comply with that?" Trump asked Mills.

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"I'm complying with authorities and national laws," she responded, earlier Trump said, "Well, we are the national law." 

"You amended bash it. You amended bash it due to the fact that you're not going to get immoderate national backing astatine each if you don't," helium continued. "And by the way, your population, adjacent though it's somewhat wide — though I did precise good determination — your colonisation doesn't privation men playing successful women's sports, truthful you amended comply due to the fact that different you're not getting immoderate national funding."

"We'll spot you successful court," Mills responded. 

"Good, I'll spot you successful court. I look guardant to that. That should beryllium a existent casual one. And bask your beingness aft politician due to the fact that I don't deliberation you'll beryllium successful elected politics," Trump concluded.

The Department of Education announced a Title IX probe against Maine conscionable hours later. 

Since then, aggregate protests against Mills person been held extracurricular of the authorities capital, and the Maine University System has cooperated with the Trump medication to guarantee nary trans athletes vie successful women's sports aft a impermanent backing pause. 

Last week, Health and Human Services' Office of Civil Rights (OCR) officially announced it recovered the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals' Association and Greely High School successful usurpation of Title IX for its continued enabling of trans inclusion successful girls' sports. 

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OCR acting manager Anthony Archeval provided a connection to Fox News Digital informing of imaginable consequences for continued defiance of the enforcement order. 

"What HHS is asking of the Maine Department of Education, the Maine Principals’ Association (MPA) and Greely High School is elemental — support pistillate athletes’ rights. Girls merit girls-only sports without antheral competitors. And if Maine won’t travel to the array to voluntarily comply with Title IX, HHS volition enforce Title IX to the fullest grade permitted by the law," Archeval said. 

HHS' archetypal announcement warned that the authorities had 10 days to close its policies done a signed statement oregon hazard referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for due action.

The deadline to comply is this Thursday. 

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