Trump went WAY off-script at CPAC, covering a bunch of topics and the crowd loved it!
But among the things that were planned was the President’s response to the rise of the authoritarian Left on campus.
You can suppress speech, or you can have government money — but not both.
Here’s your President working his magic:
“We reject oppressive speech codes, censorship, political correctness and every other attempt by the hard left to stop people from challenging ridiculous and dangerous ideas. These ideas are dangerous,” Trump said. “Instead we believe in free speech, including online and including on campus.”
“Today I’m proud to announce that I will be very soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research grants.”
Source: The Hill
He punctuated his point by bringing up Hayden Williams, the guy who was suckerpunched in the face at Berkeley while tabling.
The Violent Snowflake Who Beat Up MAGA Student Better Brace Himself For Jail — the attacker has since been formally charged.
With all the examples of schools shutting down right-of-center guest speakers, limiting their attendance, or turning a blind eye when left-wing agitators break up meetings, this will speak in a language they can understand.
So many times, STUDENTS are told what they are or are not allowed to do in a government-funded school (BAD TEACHER: Middle School Teacher Forbids Reading Bible During “Free Time”, and Dear Apolitical Christians: This CA Bill Could Ban The Bible And The Christian Worldview for example), even though Original Intent of the Establishment Clause was to protect the religious and free speech rights of the citizen, not curtail it.
It will be nice to see that flipped around to say that if you want government money, you will treat free citizens AS free citizens, and leave their speech alone.
There he goes standing up for the rights of American citizens.
Clearly that’s proof positive that he’s the second coming of Stalin… or that other guy they keep comparing him with.
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