Former President Trump criticized President Biden for his “appalling and insulting” decision to ban children from submitting religious Easter egg designs and declared that this Easter Sunday will officially become Transgender Day of Visibility.
Biden sparked widespread backlash after taking steps that broke with tradition, with his expected opponent in the 2024 election leading the outrage.
“Sadly, these are just two more examples of the Biden Administration’s years-long attack on the Christian faith,” Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Saturday.
“We call on Joe Biden’s failed campaign and the White House to apologize to the millions of Catholics and Christians across America who believe that tomorrow is for only one celebration: the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Former President Donald Trump delivers a speech from the Truman Balcony before the 139th White House Easter Egg Drop event in 2017.
Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, sharply criticized Biden’s Easter plans, calling them “appalling and insulting” to Christians.
The White House has sparked outrage by banning children from submitting Easter egg designs for this year’s Easter egg roll with any “questionable content,” including political statements and religious images.
The White House sparked controversy over this year’s Easter plans on Friday, when Biden declared that March 31, which this year falls on Easter Sunday, will officially become Transgender Day of Visibility.
Biden, a devout Catholic, also took the opportunity to launch a scathing attack on Republicans in making the proclamation, while emphasizing that “transgender Americans are part of the fabric of our nation.”
‘But extremists are proposing hundreds of hateful laws that target and terrorize transgender children and their families: silencing teachers; ban books; and even threaten parents, doctors and nurses with prison for helping parents care for their children,” he said in a Press release.
‘At the same time, an epidemic of violence against transgender women and girls, especially women and girls of color, continues to claim too many lives. Let me be clear: All of these attacks are un-American and must end.
‘Today we send a message to all transgender Americans: you are loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. “You are America, and I and my entire administration stand behind you.”
Trump was not alone in his anger, as the move quickly sparked widespread anger among conservatives.
Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was one of the first to wade into the controversy. while I was reflecting “I wonder how (Biden) came up with that date” by making Easter Sunday coincide with the day of honoring transgender people.
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson hit Biden for “betraying the central tenet of Easter” and said “the American people are taking note” of the “shocking and abhorrent” measures that break with traditions.
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton also I felt that Biden’s “open disdain for Christians is no accident.” Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville also called Democrats “a satanic cult” in response.
Republican Senate candidate Jim Banks called he an “absolute shame,” adding: “What a slap in the face to hundreds of millions of Christians in the United States and around the world.” Voters won’t forget this in November.”
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “There’s not much Biden and the Democrats aren’t going to mock your faith and mock God.”
“We know that Christ is King and that God will not be mocked, just as we know that Joe Biden is not really the decision-maker in the White House.”
While March 31 has become the official Transgender Day of Visibility, Easter Sunday will not fall on that day again for at least the next decade.
Children participate in the 2023 White House Easter Egg Drop event, which has been held on the South Lawn for nearly 50 years.
An egg designed by children of members of the military adorns the East Colonnade of the White House before the White House Easter Egg Roll, Thursday, March 28, 2024.
It comes as the White House sparked controversy over the tradition of the Easter Egg Roll, which will take place on Monday in an event that dates back to 1877.
President Biden sparked backlash by declaring Easter Sunday a national “Transgender Day of Visibility,” with critics feeling he is blatantly overlooking the religious holiday.
The White House redoubled the reaction by also banning religious images from presentations by children of military families participating in the traditional Easter Egg Roll event, while critics called the measures an “attack on Christianity.”
Part of this year’s Easter Egg Roll tradition focuses on ‘Celebrating Our Military Families’ and will include presentations of eggs with festive designs painted by children of National Guard troops.
However, National Guard families participating in the traditional Easter Egg Roll event will not have their submissions counted if they include any “questionable content,” including “religious symbols, overtly religious themes, or partisan political statements.”
Children will also be prohibited from designing their eggs with anything that promotes “intolerance, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age.”
The move sparked a backlash, with many feeling that the religious basis of the Easter holiday meant that religious symbols should be welcome at the event.
Conservative policy researcher Jeremy Carl tweeted which shows that the president and Democrats “hate America’s heritage…and they prove it again and again.”
“The war on Christianity continues,” said another critic, while others noted, “We need to remind the White House that Easter is a Christian holiday that celebrates belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Others pointed out that Biden often highlighted his Catholic faith during the election campaign, while conservative influencers ‘the Hodge twins’ added: ‘I guess Easter is canceled this year.’