Transgender activist meets Biden in Oval Office, says president has watched 'Days of Girlhood' TikTok series about transitioning



Interviews with President Joe Biden are very rare and difficult to procure. According to a report from the White House Transition Project, Biden only gave 28 interviews in his first year in office – compared to 95 by Donald Trump, 162 by Barack Obama, and 50 by George W. Bush. In 2022, Biden went 220 days without an interview with an American TV journalist until he sat down with "60 Minutes" host Scott Pelley in mid-September. However, Biden has reportedly found the time to fit in interviews with six young people at the Oval Office.

NowThis – a progressive video-centric news site for young people – was allegedly granted access to Biden for interviews regarding Democrat-friendly topics such as gun legislation, student loan relief, abortion access, criminal justice reform, climate change, and trans rights.

NowThis said of the event, "President Joe Biden sat down with six young people focused on finding solutions to some of the most critical issues facing their generation" during the "NowThis Presidential Forum."

Transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney will be interviewing President Biden about trans rights. Mulvaney is a 25-year-old TikTok content creator who hosts a social media series titled "Days of Girlhood" about transitioning.

In a TikTok video posted on March 12, the transgender activist claimed to have become a "girl." In the video, Mulvaney mocked negative female stereotypes, such as crying throughout the day and buying unaffordable dresses.

The "dylanmulvaney" TikTok account has more than 8.3 million followers and over 267 million likes.

One of Mulvaney's viewers is apparently President Joe Biden – who turns 80 years old in less than a month.

Mulvaney announced on Thursday that Mulvaney had interviewed President Biden for NowThis. The trans activist noted that President Biden had watched the "Days of Girlhood" series about Mulvaney's transgender transition.

"It's day 222 of being a girl. I'm in Washington D.C., and I’m going to the White House to speak to the President of the United States," Mulvaney said on the video on Chinese social media platform TikTok.

"You know that phrase, ‘I think I may have girlbossed too close to the sun?’ Well that’s how I feel today," Mulvaney said while wearing a "Don't mess with trans kids" shirt and filming in a bathroom. "Because I get to sit down with Joe Biden and NowThis News, and I get to ask him a few questions surrounding trans issues in the United States and talk to him about my transness, and I really just want to represent my community the best that I can.”

"And you know what, as silly as I am on here, I am ready to step up and show that trans people, we’re not going anywhere, and that trans kids, they deserve a fighting chance to be their true selves," Mulvaney continued.

To meet President Biden, the transgender activist wore an outfit featuring the colors of the trans flag, including white high heels and a pink scarf.

Video shows Mulvaney entering the White House, seeing a portrait of Michelle Obama, and saying, "Our queen, love you, I love you."

President Biden allegedly gave the trans activist a cookie in the Oval Office.

Mulvaney frantically gushed about petting Biden's dog.

Mulvaney said of the meeting, "I left with a lot of hope and optimism, not only for just trans people, but many different topics."

"And the fact that our president has watched 'Days of Girlhood' – it's kind of epic," the trans activist said of Biden watching the TikTok series about transitioning.

"And I'm not gonna lie I have been having a rough go of it lately. A lot of darkness," Mulvaney added. "And today was what I needed to keep going."

Mulvaney called on everyone to vote in the midterms because they will "be one of the most important elections of our lifetimes."

Mulvaney said, "We're going to clean up some messes that have needed cleaning for hundreds of years."

The NowThis interviews with Biden are said to be released on Sunday night.

@dylanmulvaney

Day 222- talking to the president at the White House with @nowthis (interview goes live on Sunday Night!) #trans #whitehouse #nowthisnews

Last week, Mulvaney was embroiled in a controversy involving cosmetics behemoth Ulta Beauty. Mulvaney appeared in a Ulta-sponsored video along with gender-fluid hairstylist David Lopez. The two biological men discussed girlhood and motherhood.

Mulvaney declared, "I know I can find love, I know I can still be a performer, I know I can have a family. I want to be a mom one day — and I absolutely can!"

The controversial video sparked outrage, and many women vowed to boycott Ulta Beauty.

This isn't the first time Biden's White House has enlisted social media influencers to appeal to young voters.

Earlier this month, the Biden administration announced it would utilize social media influencers to "combat scams and misinformation" about the new federal student loan debt relief program.

In March, the White House welcomed popular TikTok content creators to deliver a briefing on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In December 2021, Biden appeared in a TikTok video with the Jonas Brothers to promote COVID-19 vaccines.

In August 2021, "Queer as Folk" actor Benito Skinner, aka "Benny Drama," appeared in a video pretending to be the intern of former White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas points finger at CDC for end of Title 42



Facing questions from House lawmakers on Wednesday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas shifted blame to public health officials for the Biden administration's decision to end the Title 42 public health order limiting illegal immigration at the southern border.

Testifying before the House Appropriations Committee, Mayorkas said that DHS has no power over Title 42 and that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention holds "exclusive jurisdiction" over the issue.

"It is based on their expert assessment of the public health needs of the American public, and they decide whether the Title 42 authority remains necessary as a public health imperative based on the public health data that they obtained and their expert decision based on it," Mayorkas said, according to the Washington Examiner. "Our responsibility in the Department of Homeland Security is to implement the Title 42 authority of the CDC at our border and to implement it effectively and judiciously according to the law."

The CDC's decision to end the Title 42 order on May 23 drew bipartisan opposition from lawmakers who raised concerns that it would lead to a surge of illegal immigration and crime at the border. The public health order requires migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. to wait outside the country for their applications to be processed and grants DHS additional authority to deport migrants who do not comply.

The policy has been used to expel more than 1 million illegal immigrants at the southern border. DHS has predicted there will be as many as 18,000 additional border encounters per day once the order has lifted.

A federal court on Monday issued a temporary restraining order against the Biden administration preventing the CDC from ending Title 42. The court said the federal government must first reach an agreement with Republican-controlled border states before ending the policy.

While the Department of Justice will appeal the court's ruling, Politico reported Wednesday that administration officials intend to comply with the court order in the interim.

“If and when the court issues the TRO [temporary restraining order] the department is planning to comply with that order,” a senior administration official told reporters.

Mayorkas said that the DHS is preparing to receive a surge of migrants once Title 42 is lifted.

"We expect migration levels to increase as smugglers seek to take advantage of and profit from vulnerable migrants. We will continue to enforce our immigration laws," he told lawmakers.

"After Title 42 is lifted, non-citizens will be processed pursuant to Title 8, which provides that individuals who cross the border without legal authorization are processed for removal and if unable to establish a legal basis to remain in the United States, promptly removed from the country," he continued.

With the expiration of Title 42 forthcoming, DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas says migration levels are expected to increase at the U.S. border \u2014 here\u2019s how the department is preparingpic.twitter.com/WftrbK2BTZ
— NowThis (@NowThis) 1651069390

The secretary outlined "six pillars" of the DHS plan to "prepare for and manage the rise of non-citizen encounters." The DHS will attempt to increase the number of resources at the border, in terms of personnel and equipment; process migrants quickly and efficiently to reduce strain; enforce the law against criminal migrants; partner with local governments and NGOs for humanitarian aid; target and disrupt transnational criminal organizations and human smugglers; and work with foreign governments to deter irregular migration in south and central America before it reaches the U.S.

AOC reintroduces the Green New Deal to fundamentally transform the US economy



Congressional Democrats, led by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), reintroduced the Green New Deal on Tuesday, a sweeping progressive legislative agenda designed to fundamentally transform the U.S. economy to end capitalism while promoting so-called racial, economic, and climate "justice."

"Not only do we refuse to leave any community behind but those who have been left behind come first," Ocasio-Cortez said at a news conference announcing the reintroduction of the Green New Deal. "We're going to transition to a 100% carbon-free economy that is more unionized, more just, more dignified and that guarantees more health care and housing than we've ever had before. That's our goal."

More than 100 Democrats are co-sponsoring the reintroduction of the Green New Deal resolution in the House, which comes ahead of a virtual international summit hosted by President Joe Biden to discuss climate change on Earth Day, this Friday.

While President Biden's administration has not officially endorsed the Green New Deal, the president has signed several executive actions to curb U.S. oil and gas production and increase renewable energy production.

Sen. Markey urged Biden to be willing to go further to address climate change.

"We are going to be calling for the highest aspirations that our country can reach," he said Tuesday. "We want to go big. Even bigger."

Rep. @AOC reintroduces the Green New Deal: ’The climate crisis is a crisis born of injustice and it is a crisis bor… https://t.co/239OuAhpVf
— NowThis (@NowThis)1618932272.0

Ocasio-Cortez first introduced the Green New Deal in 2019 as a nonbinding resolution in the House that broadly outlined a Democratic legislative agenda to remake the economy. The plan sets a goal of "net-zero greenhouse gas emissions" which will be met after a "10-year national mobilization" that would restructure government social programs, vastly expand government power to centrally plan the economy, and dramatically increase federal taxes and spending to fund it all.

The Green New Deal calls for "100 percent of the power demand in the United States" to be met through "clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy sources." Infrastructure and public transportation would be overhauled to the point where "air travel stops becoming necessary," relying on boondoggles like "high speed rail" and mandates requiring the public to use electric cars to meet the government's standards. The resolution calls for "all existing buildings" in the United States to be upgraded for maximum energy efficiency.

But the "all hands on deck approach" of the Green New Deal goes well beyond climate policy. Ocasio-Cortez said the Democratic initiative must "rectify the injustices of the past" by providing free higher education for all Americans, "affordable, safe, and adequate" housing, free health care, and millions of "union jobs."

She further added that Green New Deal legislation must address the "systemic cause of climate change."

"While climate change is a planetary crisis, it does not have a random or environmental genesis," she asserted. "It's not just human-caused, it's societally-caused. The climate crisis is a crisis born of injustice. And it is a crisis born of the pursuit of profit at any and all human and ecological cost.

"We must recognize in legislation that the trampling of indigenous rights is a cause of climate change. That the trampling of racial justice is a cause of climate change," she continued. "We are allowing folks to deny ourselves human rights and deny people the right to health care, the right to housing and education."

Green New Deal legislation is likely to remain aspirational for Democrats as Republicans are adamantly opposed to these policies, arguing they would make Americans poorer. Sen. John Barasso (R-Wyo.) called it the "Green New Disaster" in a statement responding to Markey and Ocasio-Cortez's news conference.

The Green New Disaster is back.And if you're somebody who pays taxes, heats your home, or drives a car...you're g… https://t.co/DQtnDwQsa0
— Senate Republicans (@Senate Republicans)1618943219.0

"It's about massively increasing the size of government and dictating how Americans live their lives," Barasso said. "The last thing we need now is to double down on the punishing policies we have already seen from the Biden administration."

Various bills related to Green New Deal policies that have already passed the Democratic-controlled House and have gone nowhere in the U.S. Senate. The Democrats' narrowest possible 50-50 majority cannot overcome a filibuster threat from Republicans, leaving the viability of a plan to fundamentally restructure the U.S. economy very much in doubt.

For now, the Green New Deal serves as a messaging tool for Democrats to rally their progressive base and Republicans to attack ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.

'Not very American': Biden reacts to GOP congressman telling him to 'kiss my a**' over mask mandate



President Joe Biden has reacted to Republican Rep. Chip Roy of Texas telling him to "kiss my a**" over the president's federal mask mandate, calling the congressman's remark "not very American."

But Roy stands by his statement, and begs to differ on whether the comment was "American."

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Biden floated the implementation of a nationwide mask mandate months before the election, and reiterated his vow before taking office.

Last month, Biden promised on Twitter, "On day one, I'll sign an executive order to require masks everywhere I can."

Roy responded, "On day one I will tell you to kiss my a**."

On day one I will tell you to kiss my ass. #StandUpForAmerica https://t.co/1Yqygxcu69
— Chip Roy (@Chip Roy)1607546568.0

During a speech Tuesday, Biden emphasized that "experts say that wearing masks from now just until April would save 50,000 lives" from COVID-19.

The president went on to remind the public that he had already implemented his mask mandate, before referencing Roy's comments without mentioning his name.

"One congressman pointed out — he used very colorful terms to say — 'wearing a mask I'd tell him to kiss my ear, I'm not gonna wear a mask,'" Biden said. "Well, guess what, not very American."

Pres. Biden calls out an unnamed congressman who refuses to wear a mask https://t.co/bWvD6wC7MM
— NowThis (@NowThis)1611698816.0

In response, Roy told RealClearNews, "It's not my most Christian statement but it's very American."

Biden signs executive order on mask mandate

Biden initially promised a mask mandate that would cover the entire U.S., but admitted that it even if it were deemed constitutional, such a sweeping measure would be difficult if not impossible to enforce. Instead, he imposed an executive order requiring masks on federally owned property and on modes of interstate travel such as airplanes and trains.

The mask mandate was the very first executive order Biden signed last week within hours of taking office. He also promptly violated it for all to see, when he appeared without a mask while cozied up to his maskless family during his evening inaugural celebration at the Lincoln Memorial.

In response to questions over Biden floating the mandate, White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the president, saying that he was "celebrating," and argued that "we have bigger issues to worry about at this moment in time."

NowThis Cheers On ‘Cowboy’ Protester Arrested For Extensively Abusing Horse ‘Til It Dies’

According to local news, Hollingsworth "whipped and kicked his exhausted and injured horse" which was not equipped with the proper footwear.