Donald Trump made a string of massively inappropriate comments in front of a group of children.

He went on at length about deaths in Iran, terror killings in Iran, “transgender mutilisation of children” and repeated false claims about the 2020 election being “rigged” during an Oval Office event with schoolchildren, marking the return of the Presidential Fitness Test.

And later, on the White House lawn, he gathered a larger group of school athletes together to teach them his weird YMCA dance.

He repeatedly brought up spurious and highly politically charged claims about transgender people, including a direct conversation with a boy who is training to be a weightlifter.

“You’ll never compete against women in powerlifting,” Trump said, before launching into a frequently trotted out, and largely inaccurate, claim about a trans weightlifter breaking a record that had “stood for 18 years.”

He also asked the boy: “Do you think you can take me in a fight?”

After a string of speeches from RFK Jr, “Secretary of War” Pete Hegseth and Wrestling boss-turned Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Trump took questions from reporters.

On Iran, Trump said: “We can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon. You might be too young for this. They probably know better than most people. But you can’t let a bunch of lunatics have a nuclear weapon. So we just hit records on the Dow.”

Asked about the idea of arming Iranians to overthrow the regime, Trump said: “You can have 200,000 people protesting and have five or six sick people with guns, and when they start shooting them right between the eyes and you see a guy fall and another one fall and you have no guns, very few people would be able to stand there and do it.

“Don’t forget, they killed 42,000 people last month. 42,000 unarmed protesters who had no guns, so they had a 250,000 people crowd and they had snipers…and you’re standing there and all of a sudden a guy on your left goes down …that’s what happened with a woman protest. All of a sudden a woman dropped dead with a bullet right there.”

He pointed to his forehead: “Always right there.”

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