'Get the children away': Outrage breaks out over Trump's startling remarks around kids

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Raw Story

May 5, 2026 4:13PM ET


People were stunned on Tuesday after President Donald Trump started touting his unpopular Iran war and discussing it in front of a group of children in the Oval Office.

The kids were at the White House to celebrate Trump's signing of a proclamation to restore the Presidential Fitness Test award, and in the press briefing, the president ranted about trans athletes in youth sports, then attempted to make his case for the Middle East conflict.

Media experts were astounded by Trump's comments, with some calling out the president for his misinformation and decision to talk with children about adult topics.

"He’s the LeBron James of being weird around kids," political commentator Evan loves Worf wrote on X. "These are lies. And children are being exposed," Scott MacFarlane, MeidasTouch chief Washington correspondent, wrote on X.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/outrage-breaks-out-over-trump-s-startling-remarks-around-kids/

[raccoon]

1. Well, at least some people got their heads out of their butts and said something.

[pfitz59]

2. None of the 'adults' in the room

put a stop to it. All the kids were dumb-founded. Blatant child abuse.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

13. The 'adults' in the room brought their kids to see the demented pedophile knowing...

...exactly who he is--they got exactly what they expected and wanted.

Afterwards they probably went to President [REDACTED] with tears in their eyes to tell him how it was the most profound and wonderful thing they had ever heard anyone say to their kids....

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Seth Meyers - Trump Talks Iran and Nuclear War at White House Event for Kids - Monologue 5/5/2026

Seth addresses Trump saying that he's not a senior citizen and more in his monologue for Tuesday, May 5, before White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt holds an impromptu press briefing to answer burning questions, like "Is President Trump excited about Don Jr.’s upcoming wedding?"

[Joinfortmill]

4. The Le Bron James analogy is an attempt to make his comments more acceptable

They are not.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. The random Xitter post was to reference someone considered a "GOAT"

(Greatest of all Time)

It's all Millennial-speak and I expect if the analogy used "Muhammad Ali" instead, it might have registered better to this fuddy duddy boomer forum (signed, a fuddy duddy tail-end boomer).

IOW, it's how they talk in social media due to the character limitations and need for a quick dramatic hit.

This process is COMPLETELY upended by the GenZs coming behind them however, who use Tiktok videos to present analogies rather than naming any specific person or thing.

[Ol Janx Spirit]

18. No, it wasn't an attempt to make the comments more acceptable--it was an insult. (nt)

[democrank]

5. Trump's escalator ride early on.....down, down, down.....

was most definitely a sign of things to come. Don’t think for a minute that he can’t go lower because he always does.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. He was only indoctrinating future "Trump Youth".

Heil Trump!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. What's Lebron James got to do with any of this?

Why is his name mentioned in this?

[yardwork]

8. Media had to deflect blame to a Black man.

This country is deeply unwell.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. I think it was a half-assed attempt at describing someone who should be considered the "GOAT"

(Greatest Of All Time) for his actions, as apparently there has been some recent and ongoing debate in the sports fan world about dubbing LeBron James the basketball "GOAT" to replace the current one - Michael Jordan (especially when you have LeBron and his son playing on the same team together).

[Wednesdays]

31. I think the real LeBron would have some choice words

...about being compared to TSF.

LeBron James has enough class to keep them under wraps, though.

[Kid Berwyn]

9. What else would a pedophile do?

Trump’s “mind” does not operate in a way that takes others — not even children— into account, even just for one second.

[FakeNoose]

15. Chump has no filters left ... if he ever had any

He will say anything that pops into his mind, because he's incapable of selecting the "right thing" to say at the "right time." If any of those children were mine, I'd have put ear plugs into their ears and told them to ignore that strange old man.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Me, too. It was a shocking scene.

Going by the look of shock and resultant dagger stare, I think the older boy’s dad was behind the group closest to the traitor-madman. His expression revealed shock at both the cruelty and the inanity of “the most powerful ‘man’ on the planet.” If Trump were human, he’d have collapsed in shame on the spot.

[ShazzieB]

21. Exactly.

And it's only going to get worse as he continues to deteriorate. This time he at least stuck to more or less PG‐13 level topics, inappropriate as they were. There's no telling what he'll say next time or the time after that. Anyone with a lick of sense will keep their children far, far away from him. Of course, that means MAGA morons will still bring theirs around any chance they get, poor kids. 🤨

[maddiemom]

29. Makes you wonder...

Did he EVER talk to his own kids when they were children? ( at least before he felt Ivanka "got Hot&quot

[Kid Berwyn]

30. Not in a loving way.

As you and good parents know, maddiemom: Kids need love and attention. They build up self-esteem and worry about others' feelings and welfare as adults.

That home in Queens must've been something. Trump's father was a NAZI. Apart from survival of the richest, he must not have got much love there. Dunno much about the traitor's mother, other than she emigrated from a windswept island off Scotland. She probably had no clue about what Dr. Spock would later talk about. She must've been frightened to the bottom of the bottle by her monstrous offspring. And going by his vocab, she must've called him "a disgrace" all day, every day.

How one (happily married, but childless) cellist put it:

[maddiemom]

32. Thanks, Kid Berwyn...

Good (and interesting) to hear your thoughts.

[Javaman]

10. another sign of senility: lack of boundaries. nt

[tanyev]

14. Where did they find these kids?

Their MAGA teachers or parents are not protecting them like they should.

”Mommy, I don’t want to go back there again. He’s weird. And boring.”

[chouchou]

16. Donald Trump is such a treat to be around. Sorta' like a Werewolf.

[happy feet]

19. To Evan

Leave LeBron James' name out of your mouth. Sick of the racism in an attempt to cover for the Orange One.

[sakabatou]

20. Who dafuq talks like that?!

[AZLD4Candidate]

22. I remember in 1999 when Mary Bono said that the president is role model and she was "told"

children didn't want to meet Bill Clinton because of Lewinsky and that Clinton "was weird."

Yet, crickets with an adjudicated rapist and someone who pays for sex while cheating on his wife and lying about it.

Republicans are the GOAT of double standards.

[Wonder Why]

23. When you're a MAGAt, you take your kids to see a rapist pedophile. Very smart of them. No sympathy except for the kids.

[ChicagoTeamster]

24. He's worse than Johnny Knoxville in Bad Grandpa

[BradBo]

25. He gets off on child abuse. You know he approved the bombing of children in Iran.

[obamanut2012]

26. Notice he fell asleep and Linda McMahon had to kick hs chair and wake him up

While RFKJ was talking, he just BOOM, conked out. She saw and woke him up.

[Ocelot II]

27. The younger kids were probably completely baffled by the whole episode.

The older ones might have been creeped out. It would be a big deal for a kid to go to the White House and meet the president (the kids were probably the offspring of people with connections) but that meeting must have been really weird for them, no matter what their parents might have told them.

[doc03]

28. If that wasn't evidence of insanity, I don't know what is. Even the kids got to be thinking

gramps is nuts. Imagine 50 years from now when they tell their grandchildren they met the President and what he talked about.