Trump, Maine's governor clash at White House over executive order compliance: 'We'll see you in court'

President Donald Trump sparred with Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills implicit transgender women successful sports, telling her astatine the White House that she indispensable travel his enforcement bid oregon "you're not going to get national funding," to which she replied, "we’ll spot you successful court." 

The bluish authorities is 1 of respective defying Trump’s Feb. 5 enforcement bid preventing trans athletes from competing successful girls' and women's sports. Trump threatened Thursday to chopped disconnected federal backing to Maine earlier clashing with Mills astatine a bipartisan gathering of governors. 

"You amended bash it due to the fact that you're not going to get national funding," Trump told her.  

"We're going to travel the instrumentality sir. We'll spot you successful court," she responded. 

TRUMP VOWS TO CUT OFF FEDERAL FUNDING TO MAINE OVER REFUSAL TO COMPLY WITH ‘NO MEN IN WOMEN’S SPORTS’ ORDER 

"Enjoy your beingness aft politician due to the fact that I don't deliberation you'll beryllium an elected authoritative afterwards," Trump past said. 

Mills released a connection connected Friday, saying that "The State of Maine volition not beryllium intimidated by the President's threats." 

"If the President attempts to unilaterally deprive Maine schoolhouse children of the payment of Federal funding, my Administration and the Attorney General volition instrumentality each due and indispensable ineligible enactment to reconstruct that backing and the world accidental it provides," she added. 

Trump told a gathering of Republican governors successful Washington, D.C., connected Thursday that "I heard men are inactive playing successful Maine." 

"I hatred to archer you this, but we're not going to springiness them immoderate national money, they are inactive saying ‘we privation men to play successful women’s sports' and I cannot judge that they're doing that… So we’re not going to springiness them immoderate national funding, nary whatsoever, until they cleanable that up," helium aded. 

WISCONSIN BANS TRANS ATHLETES FROM GIRLS’ SPORTS, FOLLOWING TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER 

Trump's enforcement order, which was signed connected Feb. 5, instructed each national agencies to reappraisal grants, programs and policies that neglect to comply with the administration's efforts to extremity "male competitory information successful women’s sports… arsenic a substance of safety, fairness, dignity, and truth." 

The bid besides instructed strict Title IX enforcement against immoderate acquisition institutions oregon diversion associations that bash not comply and demands national assistance beryllium taken distant successful specified cases. 

Shortly aft the bid was signed, aggregate states, including Maine, California, Minnesota and others tally chiefly by Democrats, indicated that they would not comply with Trump.  

The enforcement manager of the superior governing assemblage for precocious schoolhouse sports successful the authorities of Maine said diversion teams volition proceed to find eligibility based connected a student's stated sex identity, contempt the president's enforcement bid seeking to support "men retired of women's sports." 

Fox News’ Jackson Thompson contributed to this report.