From Iowa, where he was holding a meeting intended to set the scene a little more for the 2024 presidential campaign, Trump spoke about education.
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AWith 2024 in mind, Donald Trump embarked on Monday March 13 on thorny ground and, above all, monopolized by the opposition: that of education. The former American president called for more “common sense” in education, during a meeting in the state of Iowa.
Since the early 1970s, this agricultural state in the center of the country, with its vast, sparsely populated plains, has kicked off the Republican Party’s primary season when its voters vote in small neighborhood assemblies, the “caucuses “. Quite often, the winner in Iowa ends up winning their party’s nomination, giving the state “kingmaker” status.
For his first trip of the year to this Midwestern state, Donald Trump chose to talk about education. In particular, he promised to “cut federal funding to any school that talks about “critical race theory” (an academic concept that has become a catch-all formula for racism awareness programs, editor’s note) or transgender madness “, s drawing long cheers from the audience. One way to compete with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis – considered his main opponent, even if he is not yet a candidate – on his favorite ground.
Donald Trump wants to get back to the basics of education
The rising star of the hard right constantly denounces attempts to “indoctrinate” progressives in American schools and has made education issues his trademark. His maneuvers to restrict the teaching of subjects related to sexual orientation in elementary school had given him the media attention that many presidential candidates would dream of.
READ ALSODonald Trump at CPAC: “I will prevent World War III”Sign of the importance of the subject, one of Donald Trump’s supporters estimated Monday, during a sequence of questions and answers at the end of the meeting, that schools have become “indoctrination camps (…) focused on the sexualization of our children. “We must return to common sense, that is to say reading, writing and arithmetic”, replied the former president, judging that “what they teach in school today is insane”. Determined to score points in this very rural state, he also promised to tackle environmental regulations and “cancel all (Joe) Biden’s measures that brutalize our farmers”.
