Trump mocks cisgender women as weak in bizarre anti-trans sports rant to factory workers

President Donald Trump mocked women weightlifters, both transgender and cisgender, during a meandering speech to manufacturing workers in Pennsylvania on Tuesday.During remarks at a Mack Trucks facility in Macungie that resembled a campaign rally, Trump veered into an attack on transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. He called the issue “99-1” politically and claimed first lady Melania Trump had specifically begged him not to perform his routine about weightlifters.In making his argument, Trump mocked cisgender women as physically weak before portraying transgender women as men who could effortlessly defeat them.Without identifying any specific participants, he began by mocking a hypothetical Olympic hopeful trying to break a weightlifting record.“This young lady, she's trying out for the Olympics, and she's going to do it. And the record stood for 19 years, and they put an eighth of an ounce on one side, an eighth of an ounce on the other… They put a little eight, like a feather, on one side, a little bit, just to break the record,” Trump said.“Her parents are right there in the front, and they're so proud. The father's not so proud, because he knows she's not going to do it, because she's a woman. It’s a lot of weight. The mother, though, is screaming, ‘Darling, I love you, do it.’ And she gets over the weights, and she stares.”Trump then holds his arm up, shaking, impersonating a woman who is trying and failing to lift weights.“The mother's screaming, ‘Darling, I love you.’ And the father's looking, saying, ‘She has no chance,’ and she's like this. You see it,” Trump said, then made a sound of a woman crying. “She drops ‘em, and she's like devastated for the rest of her life.”Then Trump described a hypothetical trans woman athlete.“Then a guy comes along who transitioned,” Trump said. “That's the term I've gotten very good at that term. I used to take a lot of heat from my definition of the movement o