Trump’s Women’s History Month proclamation isn’t about celebrating women—it’s about controlling them.

While positioning himself as a champion of women, he simultaneously dictates the right kind of woman to celebrate: one who aligns with his values, his worldview, and his version of history. The women who fall outside of that? Erased. This isn’t about honoring women; it’s about owning the narrative around womanhood.

He talks about safeguarding “American values” of family, truth, well-being, and freedom—but let’s break that down:

• Family values? From a man who has been accused of sexual assault, paid hush money to a porn star, and filled his cabinet with known predators?
• Truth? From the guy who normalized “fake news” to avoid accountability?
• Well-being? After cutting social programs that help actual American families?
• Freedom? Whose freedom? He’s not advocating for freedom to be who you are, but rather freedom from having to accept others as they are.

He boasts about banning “X” gender markers and restricting women’s sports, but what does any of this have to do with actually supporting women? His idea of women’s rights is exclusion—stripping trans people of recognition and using fear as a weapon to limit identities. He presents this as a win for women, but it’s just another example of “protecting” women by controlling them.

He claims 80% of Americans support his extremist policies—where is that number coming from? It’s not reality, but that’s the point: his entire platform depends on making up a crisis and then pretending to fix it.

This isn’t about celebrating women. It’s about weaponizing identity politics to manufacture division and disguise oppression as empowerment.

His entire statement is a tool to police womanhood, define it in his terms, and use it to justify broader attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, feminism, and social progress.

This is what propaganda looks like.

Now, let’s ask the real question: If you need to redefine and restrict womanhood in order to “celebrate” it, are you actually celebrating it at all?