President Donald Trump renewed his pledge Tuesday to combat child abuse, using a White House message for National Child Abuse Prevention Month to frame strong families as the nation’s first line of defense against neglect, exploitation, and harm.
In the April 7 statement, Trump said his administration will keep advancing policies that support parents, strengthen families, and protect children from danger.
“During National Child Abuse Prevention Month, we renew our resolve that, in order to be a great Nation, we must raise our children with boundless love, care, and unfailing protection—and we vow to end the horrors of child abuse in every form,” Trump said.
Trump also used the message to criticize the previous administration’s handling of unaccompanied migrant children. He said “hundreds of thousands” of minors who entered the country were lost under President Joe Biden and that many ended up in the hands of smugglers and traffickers.
“As of January, just one year after I returned to office as the 47th President of the United States, my Administration has located more than 60,000 migrant children, most of whom were lost on Joe Biden’s watch, to ensure their safety,” Trump said. “We will continue working tirelessly to locate these missing children and end the scourge of human trafficking once and for all.”
Trump also pointed to online abuse as a growing threat to children. He highlighted the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which, as previously reported by The Dallas Express, President Donald Trump signed last year after First Lady Melania Trump championed the legislation to combat harmful online content and non-consensual intimate images.
“Tragically, child abuse has also become rampant online,” Trump said.
The president also cited the Presidential AI Challenge, which, as previously reported by The Dallas Express, First Lady Melania Trump launched last year as part of a broader push on AI education and responsible innovation.
The statement closed with a broader pledge to restore law and order, remove violent criminals, dismantle trafficking routes, and punish those who harm children.
“We will never waver in our duty to protect the most innocent among us by restoring law and order, removing violent criminals from our streets, and dismantling human trafficking routes,” Trump said. “We will ensure that those who seek to harm our children will be met with swift consequences under the full force of American justice.”