Footage reemerged on X over the weekend that critics say reveals Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills taking part at an LGBT occasion in 2022 whereas dressed as Marvel Lady.
The video, which went viral Saturday and Sunday after being shared by outstanding conservative X accounts and has been watched 2.5 million instances, reportedly reveals Mills on the Nice Pumpkin Ball in Portland, the state’s largest LGBT dance social gathering.
The footage, which purports to depict the Democrat adorned in a cape as she enthusiastically dances on stage, prompted widespread scorn on X.
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“Is that this actually what the folks of Maine need of their Governor??? What an absolute clown,” Donald Trump, Jr. tweeted.
Is that this actually what the folks of Maine need of their Governor??? What an absolute clown ???????????? https://t.co/nXojnls2jT
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 23, 2025
The video could not be independently verified by The Christian Put up. CP reached out to Mills’ workplace for remark. A response is pending.
The unearthed video comes on the heels of President Donald Trump clashing with Mills publicly final Friday throughout bipartisan assembly of governors on the White Home.
Trump threatened to tug federal funding from her state for not complying together with his Feb. 5 government order titled “Maintaining Males Out of Girls’s Sports activities,” an government order banning males in ladies’s sports activities.
“We’re complying with state and federal legislation,” Mills informed Trump. The 2 informed one another they might see one another in court docket.
After the tense tussle with Trump, the Equality Neighborhood Heart — a collaborative workspace for LBGT and allied nonprofit organizations — posted an Instagram picture of Mills in the same Marvel Lady outfit whereas wielding a lightsaber.
The nonprofit thanked Mills “for standing up for our state and for shielding trans youth” and denounced Trump because the “Bully-in-Chief.”
On Friday, the Division of Training’s civil rights division introduced a Title IX investigation into Maine’s Division of Training “amid allegations that it continues to permit male athletes to compete in ladies’ interscholastic athletics and that it has denied feminine athletes female-only intimate services, thereby violating federal antidiscrimination legislation,” the USDOE mentioned in a press launch.
USDOE is launching an investigation into a selected faculty district within the state amid allegations that Greely Excessive Faculty in Cumberland is constant to permit a minimum of one male scholar to compete in ladies’ classes.
Mills pushed again towards the USDOE’s investigation, which she claimed is unconstitutional and implied Trump is performing like a dictator.
“No President — Republican or Democrat — can withhold Federal funding licensed and appropriated by Congress and paid for by Maine taxpayers in an try and coerce somebody into compliance together with his will,” she mentioned in a press release. “It’s a violation of our Structure and of our legal guidelines, which I took an oath to uphold.”
“This isn’t nearly who can compete on the athletic subject, that is about whether or not a President can drive compliance together with his will, with out regard for the rule of legislation that governs our nation,” she continued.
“In America, the President is neither a King nor a dictator, as a lot as this one tries to behave prefer it — and it’s the rule of legislation that forestalls him from being so,” she added.
In 2019, Mills signed laws banning so-called LGBT “conversion remedy” for minors, which she described as “barbaric” and “a pseudoscientific course of premised on the repugnant concept that being homosexual, lesbian, bisexual or transgender is a illness that have to be ‘cured.'”
In 2023, she signed into legislation a measure that expanded the legality of abortion to successfully embody any motive up till beginning. Final yr, she signed a invoice that protects suppliers of abortion and beauty intercourse change providers for trans-identified minors from prosecution by officers from different states that prohibit such procedures.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Put up. Ship information tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com
