The backstory: President Donald Trump got into a tense exchange with Democrat Governor of Maine Janet Mills at a February Governors Association working session at the White House over the issue of men playing in women’s sports, the Trump administration threatened to pull funding from the University of Maine system for not honoring his executive order banning such competition, and then the University of Maine capitulated and agree to the terms. Following all that, Trump demanded a full-throated apology from the leftist governor for her behavior.
On Tuesday, Mills replied, and as I predicted, she’s too far removed from the new mood in this country to apologize or even to recognize that she’s against the vast majority of the public on this divisive issue. Most Americans don’t think men should be playing against women, end of sentence.
But Mills…
