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Opponents deride the policies as “forced outing” that make schools less safe for LGBTQ+ people.

One likely early target will be Biden-era tailpipe emissions rules that Trump has derided as an electric vehicle “mandate.”

Portland’s four-member city council lived far from these neighborhoods, sometimes derided by locals as the faraway “numbers.”

Many Harris supporters simply cannot understand why she is not further ahead of a convicted criminal who has been publicly attacked and derided by those who served in his last administration.

But as Hurricanes Milton and Helene raged, Trump derided environmental plans and policies to confront this climate emergency as “one of the greatest scams of all time.”