President Trump, Thank You on Behalf of Maine!

Mr. President, you had an extraordinary week – and your poll numbers show it! Among the best moments was a bright light on Maine’s out-of-touch, anti-girl, Democrat Governor. You have started a groundswell, validated parents everywhere, and it will grow. For calling her out, Maine is grateful.  

I grew up in Maine, I live in Maine, stepped away to serve my country, came home, and found the state is not the one I left. That must change. You are absolutely right. We have a failed, woke governor. Most Mainers are sick of her. So, thank you …

Thank you for many things, but especially for calling out the lawlessness, dishonesty, and demagoguery of this failed Democrat governor, Janet Mills – who has put Maine’s public safety, fiscal health, and children at risk, who has perverted Title IX, betraying Maine’s girls and women.  

As a Maine lawyer, litigator, father of a daughter, and someone who circled the globe advancing truth, freedom, and the rule of law, to see this travesty of justice happen here in Maine, is sobering.

Incredibly, this female governor benefited from Title IX protections herself in law school, getting jobs, and throughout her career – yet reversed Title IX protections for Maine’s girls and women.

Whether for political gain, to raise money for a potential senate bid, or to perpetuate Maine’s shrinking Progressive base, Mills is forcing Maine’s girls to compete against men, despite overwhelming evidence of increased injury. She is forcing Maine girls to have men in girls’ showers, bathrooms, and locker rooms, blithely trampling their dignity, privacy, safety, and peace of mind.

Despite the fact that men in women’s bathrooms, locker rooms, and school showers were a felony 15 years ago, Democrats in the Maine legislature continue to endanger girls by siding with this radical governor. In 2024, they rejected a Republican bill to keep boys out of girls’ restrooms.

Incredibly, this arrogant governor – herself a lawyer – knows that Title IX was intended to protect biological girls and women. It never had any other intent. She knows 50 years of precedent support that reality, because in the 1970s she worked for an organization that took that position in court.

She knows she is wrong about the law. Beyond half a century of precedent that protects the uniqueness, physical safety, and opportunities of biological girls and women, she knows a federal court on January 9, 2025, Tennessee v. Cardona, threw out Biden’s redefinition of “sex” in Title IX.

She knows the federal court rejected the Biden Education Department’s rewrite of Title IX, saying it violated legal precedent, “chilled” First Amendment speech with “ambiguity” and “pronouns,” was unconstitutional for being “arbitrary and capricious,” and that it could not stand.

The federal court threw out Biden’s ideological, unconstitutional rewrite, just as any court faithful to Title IX’s plain meaning, origins, intent, application, and decades of precedent would have done.

Maine’s embarrassingly ideological governor knows all this, as she knows that she is obliged, under the “Supremacy clause” of the Constitution, to honor the President’s Executive Order “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government,” which was signed on January 20, 2025.

To be clear, she is knowingly acting in an extra-constitutional, anti-legal way, asserting a right to reverse the Constitution’s Supremacy clause, ignore 50 years of legal precedent, dump definitions (on which she worked), upend a 2025 federal court decision, and violate a legal executive order.

In a spasm of Progressive belligerence, in the middle of President Trump’s meeting with governors, Mills could not help herself. She had to embarrass Maine, causing fellow Democrats to look away.

She smirked “I’ll see you in court” when President Trump stated the obvious, that federal law supersedes state law on Title IX, protecting girls and women – and that any state violating federal law faces the sanction of monies withheld from their education system. That is the law.

Mills’ embarrassing behavior is not Maine. That kind of ideological belligerence and provocation, throwing over the US Constitution, history, and majority view of Maine citizens is a slap in the face of Maine’s girls, women, and families. It has absolutely no place in Maine, or in our political future.

So, despite Mills’ disgraceful misrepresentation of Maine values, and demagoguery after the event – claiming the law is on her side – we are grateful. President Trump, thank you on behalf of Maine!

Robert (Bobby) Charles is a longtime Maine resident, served in the Reagan and Bush 41 White Houses, was Assistant Secretary of State under Colin Powell, is a Maine attorney, former 10-year Naval Intelligence Officer, is often on Fox & Friends, and wrote “Cherish America.” (2024).