In a July 26, 2022 speech, Donald Trump said he would ask LeBron James whether he wanted to be a woman so James could star on a women's basketball team Trump coached.
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Timestamped transcript of the 2022 AFPI speech contains the LeBron James passage.
The historical remark is retained, but the search did not establish a single originating 2026 post or the headline's specific WNBA-debate framing.
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a dated primary-source document, attributable response, correction, or final official dataset that directly confirms, narrows, corrects, or resolves the quoted_public_statement claim, plus any attributable response from Donald Trump.
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Trump's Old LeBron Joke Resurfaces in WNBA Debates
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The full transcript identifies Donald Trump as the sole speaker; entity publication remains gated pending registry review.
Open source receipt - originating speaker
Donald Trump made the LeBron James women's-basketball coaching remark at the America First Policy Institute summit on July 26, 2022.
A timestamped full transcript names Trump as the sole speaker and reproduces the passage.
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Roll Call Factbase publishes the timestamped full transcript; no individual reporter byline is shown.
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Open source receipt - atomic claim
In a July 26, 2022 speech, Donald Trump said he would ask LeBron James whether he wanted to be a woman so James could star on a women's basketball team Trump coached.
The claim is narrowly paraphrased from the timestamped transcript rather than inferred from the 2026 headline.
Open source receipt - primary source evidence
Timestamped transcript of the 2022 AFPI speech contains the LeBron James passage.
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Open source receipt - resolution evidence status
The historical remark is retained, but the search did not establish a single originating 2026 post or the headline's specific WNBA-debate framing.
Exact-wording and semantic X searches found related discussion but no matching or clearly originating post.
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