“We’re moving them back from Washington, where you have people that don’t care about New York, frankly. You know, in Washington, I don’t know if you ever noticed that you got Department of Education, Department of Education. You got half the buildings are Department of Education. 

“I never saw – you don’t need any of them. You know, I want one person and the secretary to just make sure they’re teaching English. Okay. Give a little English. Okay. I say reading, writing, and arithmetic. No transgender, no operations.

“You know they take your kid. There are some places your boy leaves the school, comes back a girl. Okay. Without parental consent. What is that all about? That’s like. When they talk about a threat to democracy, they’re a threat. 

“Could you imagine without parental consent? At first, what I was told that was actually happening, I said, you know, it’s an exaggeration. No. It happens! It happens in areas where it happens. We’re not going to let it happen, but we are going to straighten out a lot. 

“What we’re going to really do, though, is give you a lot of jobs and a great economy, and you’re going to be able to straighten yourselves out.” – Trump, responding to a Bronx father this morning on Fox & Friends.