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Trump Brags He “Brought Back Free Speech” Hours After Calling to Ban “Illegal” Protests
On the same day he floated cutting funding at schools hosting “illegal” protests, Trump took a free speech victory lap.
Trump Brags He “Brought Back Free Speech” Hours After Calling to Ban “Illegal” Protests
On the same day he floated cutting funding at schools hosting “illegal” protests, Trump took a free speech victory lap.
theintercept.com
During his joint address to Congress on Tuesday night, President Donald Trump laid out his vision for the next four years and carefully revised the legacy of his first seven weeks in office.
Amid a slew of actions to chill speech and root out political opponents from federal agencies, Trump claimed that his administration had “stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.” Earlier on Tuesday, Trump threatened to cut funding from schools that allow “illegal” protests.
“Our country will be woke no longer,” Trump said to applause after he celebrated orders making English the official language of the U.S. and renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. He cheered the Supreme Court’s ending of affirmative action and his administration’s efforts to “remove the poison of critical race theory from our public schools” and make it the official policy of the U.S. “that there are only two genders.”
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In practice, Trump has accomplished those tasks by ending federal environmental protections for minority communities, making it easier for employers to discriminate based on race, stripping money from schools that teach about racial inequality, and threatening to upend programs that provide mental health support for homeless children.
Since taking office, Trump has signed executive orders to threaten to deport students who take part in pro-Palestine and anti-genocide protests and announced a list of schools that will receive visits from the Department of Justice over their handling of campus protests. He has also eliminated civil rights work and diversity and equity initiatives across federal agencies, and made plans to defund schools that teach “discriminatory equity ideology,” which includes teaching basic facts about racism in U.S. history like the idea that “the United States is fundamentally racist, sexist, or otherwise discriminatory.”
“You can’t claim to stand for free speech while threatening schools’ funding to silence anti-war students,” said Tariq Habash, a former staffer in president Joe Biden’s Department of Education who resigned over Biden’s handling of the war on Gaza. Habash is now co-founder and director of the advocacy group A New Policy. “These efforts are not just antidemocratic, they’re illegal and a direct attack on academia, students, and faculty.”
