Trump signs transgender sports ban; White House intruder chaos

Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports, as footage shows the shock moment a man tried to enter the White House. Watch video

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.

“With this executive order the war on women’s sports is over,” Mr Trump said before he signed the order, with dozens of female athletes of all ages surrounding him in the Oval Office.

The order, titled “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” gives federal agencies the right to ensure entities that receive federal funding abide by Title IX in alignment with the White House’s view that “sex” is the gender someone was assigned at birth.

US President Donald Trump signs the No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order into law in the East Room of the White House. Picture: AFP

Ahead of the signing, White House officials said allowing trans women to compete against biological women is “dangerous” and “unfair”.

It came as shock video captured the moment a man dressed all in black got stuck climbing tall security fencing outside the White House.

Shocked tourists filmed the man, who was heard saying “F--- it” before trying to climb over the fence on the South Grounds.

The man made his way to the top of the fence as Secret Service agents inside the White House grounds raced toward the barrier.

The climber then got stuck on spikes at the top and tried to climb back down before being swarmed by agents.

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LARA TRUMP TO HOST FOX NEWS SHOW

Fox News has hired Mr Trump’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, to be a program host.

The 42-year-old former co-chair of the Republican National Committee will host a prime-time show, My View with Lara Trump, to air on the Fox News Channel.

Lara Trump, with husband Eric Trump, will host a Fox News show. Picture: AFP

Fox News Media chief executive Suzanne Scott called Lara Trump “a gifted communicator” in a statement announcing her appointment.

“I’m thrilled to bring my voice back to FOX News, talk directly with the American people, and highlight what makes this country so great,” Lara Trump said, according to the network.

‘HIGH THREAT’: MIGRANTS ARRIVE AT GUANTANAMO

Ten “high-threat” migrants have arrived at the notorious detention facility Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The Trump administration later identifying the men as members of the powerful Tren de Aragua gang.

Mr Trump last week ordered the preparation of a 30,000-person “migrant facility” at the base, which is primarily known as a detention centre for suspects accused of terrorism-related offences.

“These 10 high-threat individuals are currently being housed in vacant detention facilities,” the Pentagon said in a statement, referring to them as “illegal aliens”.

“US Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking this measure to ensure the safe and secure detention of these individuals until they can be transported to their country of origin or other appropriate destination,” it said.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt later said the flight carrying the migrants had arrived the previous day and that they were “10 members of the transnational gang Tren de Aragua.”

The front entrance to the Guantanamo military base in Cuba. Picture: AFP

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says the inmates are members of the Tren de Aragua gang. Picture: AFP

The Trump administration has launched what it has cast as a major effort to combat illegal migration that has also included immigration raids, arrests and deportations on military aircraft.

The US President has made the issue a priority on the international stage as well, threatening Colombia with sanctions and massive tariffs for turning back two planeloads of deportees.

The Guantanamo prison was opened in the wake of the September 11 attacks and has been used to indefinitely hold detainees seized during the wars and other operations that followed.

Conditions there have prompted outcry from rights groups, and UN experts have condemned it as a site of “unparalleled notoriety.”

- with AFP