A Democratic National Committee (DNC) vice chairman fired up a crowd outside Philadelphia on Saturday after calling President Donald Trump a "punk" and accusing his administration of modern-day book burning for adjusting content on government websites.

"There is a strategy of authoritarians and would-be dictators and punks like Donald Trump," Malcolm Kenyatta said at a town hall in Levittown that was officially targeting swing-district Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa.

As part of that "strategy," Kenyatta said, "one of the first things they go after is history."

"We know that before, they used to take the books, put them in a little pile and burn them. Now they try to delete stuff off of our federal websites. But the effect is the same. They want us to forget what we are made of," he went on, in a clip circulated by the left-leaning outlet "The Keystone."

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Since taking office, Trump has overseen agencies that have altered or removed content relating to DEI, climate change and gender ideology.

"Donald Trump is not the first bully or would-be authoritarian that Americans have taken on. We know it here in Pennsylvania. We don't have a good relationship with kings," he said, as Penn’s Woods was founded by Quakers and other religious exiles fed up with European authoritarians. "I'm not bowing to a king."

Kenyatta is also the state representative for the Temple University area of North Philadelphia, and the first openly gay person of color to serve in Harrisburg.

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He added that "people like Fitzpatrick" lack the "guts" to stand up to Trump.

At another recent appearance in Berks County – which includes Reading and Hamburg – Kenyatta railed against the arrest of Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka at an ICE detention facility there.

"He was peacefully protesting and speaking up for his constituents and his neighbors. He wasn't inciting an insurrection… because if he was doing that, they might have offered him a position in the Cabinet," Kenyatta said.

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Kenyatta notably finished third in the 2022 Pennsylvania Senate primary won by Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., and unsuccessfully ran for auditor general in 2024 against GOP incumbent Timothy DeFoor.

White House spokesperson Harrison Fields responded Monday, telling Fox News Digital that Kenyatta is a "no-name state representative who was trounced in the Pennsylvania Senate primary due to his radical and unserious positions."

"The prominence the Democrat Party affords him reflects the party's disarray and desire to satisfy its radical base," Fields said.

Fox News Digital reached out to Fitzpatrick for comment.

The Washington Post editorial board defended the Trump administration for issuing a detailed report on transgender surgeries for children, an area of research that is highly controversial among scientists. 

"The good news is that the executive order provided some of what is too often missing in the debate over transgender medical care for children," the Post wrote on Sunday, defending the Trump administration for investigating the topic through the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). "It directed the secretary of health and human services to publish a review of the existing literature on best practices within 90 days, and this review is now out."

The report from HHS was issued following President Donald Trump's issuance of an executive order in January titled, "Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation."

In the order, the administration stated that medical professionals in the U.S. are "maiming and sterilizing a growing number of impressionable children under the radical and false claim that adults can change a child’s sex through a series of irreversible medical interventions." 

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The Washington Post called the wording of the order "hyperbole" but said that "better evidence and reasoned discussion about the trade-offs involved in intervening with the biological process of puberty in children who experience gender dysphoria" is necessary.

"Critics have been scathing about what they see as the report’s bias and shortcomings," the editorial board wrote. "But it makes a legitimate case for caution that policymakers need to wrestle with."

The HHS report, the editorial board explained, finds common ground with other scientific reviews, including in Britain. The Washington Post pointed out that there are serious concerns about the scientific basis for interfering in the growth process of children in "clear and careful language." 

The report also demonstrates the "ethical quandaries involved in intervening in the sexual development of minors, who might not be mature enough to give fully informed consent."

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Trump's executive order on transgender surgeries states that it is "the policy of the United States that it will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the so-called ‘transition’ of a child from one sex to another."

"Countless children soon regret that they have been mutilated and begin to grasp the horrifying tragedy that they will never be able to conceive children of their own or nurture their children through breastfeeding," the order states. "Moreover, these vulnerable youths’ medical bills may rise throughout their lifetimes, as they are often trapped with lifelong medical complications, a losing war with their own bodies, and, tragically, sterilization."

HHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital. 

Fox News' Kendall Tietz contributed to this report.