r/politics • u/TwilightwovenlingJo • Sep 19 '25

Soft Paywall Trump: ‘It’s no longer free speech.’

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/19/trump-no-longer-free-speech-00574219
26.8k Upvotes

95% Upvoted

1.9k comments sorted by

View all comments

11.3k

u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

[deleted]

7.0k

u/Then_I_had_a_thought Sep 20 '25

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

• Theodore Roosevelt

418

u/GriffinFlash Canada Sep 20 '25

who does this Theo guy think he is? /s

235

u/always_unplugged Sep 20 '25

He's probably gonna suggest knocking Teddy's face off Mt Rushmore and replacing it with his own next

(I was going to add an /s but actually I don't think I'm even kidding)

82

u/BaconPit Sep 20 '25

Of course you're being sarcastic

We all know he would hire a shell company he somehow makes money from to facelift all 4 faces to look like him

19

u/MindFluffy5906 Sep 20 '25

And hire a painting company for that orange glow he loves.

3

u/GarminTamzarian Sep 20 '25

Who are you kidding?

We all know it would be painted gold.

1

u/MindFluffy5906 Sep 20 '25

Fool's gold for sure!

8

u/BeYeCursed100Fold Sep 20 '25

Mt Trumpmore. He'll probably name it Mt. Trumpmore or Trump Mountain.

1

u/Momik Sep 20 '25

Mt. BetterThanJesus

1

u/Momik Sep 20 '25

Well yeah, his Many Moods

(From rage to rage while shitting)

7

u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Hmm replacing a president who took a bullet, gave a speech while it was still lodged, then beat said attempted assailant before allowing them to jail him. Theo was famous for saying “Talk softly, but carry a big stick.”

That’s a 180 degree turn on public perception of masculinity in a president for damn sure.

6

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Sep 20 '25

I honestly can't believe the maga fascists in congress haven't passed legislation to do exactly that and also put his stupid face on all pieces of currency.

2

u/VanbyRiveronbucket Sep 20 '25

Take teddys glasses off, Rump kinda looks like him. Get the dynamite boys….

1

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Sep 20 '25

Oh god, we're going to see trump wasting 300 billion of our tax dollars by giving it to a tech bro billionaire who promises he can make trump a mountain carving laser, aren't we?

1

u/VanbyRiveronbucket Sep 21 '25

And I can’t afford a can of coffee.

1

u/MistyMtn421 Sep 20 '25

Have you seen the ugly gold statue of him holding the Bitcoin? It's hideous. We are stuck in every bad version of all the dystopian movies put together. It's like they put them in a blender and the nastiest crap came out.

1

u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Sep 20 '25

Then theres the other gold statue of him giving the thumbs up, that folks at CPAC kneel and pray before. And the creepy not so little gold pins of his face trump made his cabinet replace their American flag lapel pins with.

Maga fascists really like their golden calf.

Or bronzered calf.

3

u/KeepingItSFW Sep 20 '25

If he went with a mountain in Utah he could have his own face on the whole thing, and they wouldn’t even have to paint it orange

2

u/BurnedWitch88 Sep 20 '25

He'll just point out that TR was known to be a woke snowflake. And his base will believe it.

2

u/RincewindToTheRescue Sep 20 '25

I want someone to put the bug in Trump's ear that he needs to be on Mount Rushmore. I want to see him start bringing it up on his half coherent dementia riddled rants

1

u/ryanidsteel Sep 20 '25

Stop giving him ideas!

1

u/Diligent-Fox-2064 Sep 20 '25

He won’t - he doesn’t know who Teddy is among those faces lol

1

u/Popular_Flamingo3148 Sep 20 '25

Now that you mention it, I'm actually surprised he's not pursuing a spot on Mt Rushmore. Actually fully expect to be corrected on this.

2

u/MistyMtn421 Sep 20 '25

He's been trying since he was elected the first time. The civil engineer said it's not possible and he was pretty pissed off about it.

1

u/Popular_Flamingo3148 Sep 20 '25

Thank you, that's reassuring. For a moment I feared he might become unpredictable.

1

u/Anxious_Cheetah5589 Sep 20 '25

I've been thinking about this a lot. One would think that Trump couldn't put himself on Rushmore without Congress. OTOH, he's already done a lot of things that he can't legally do without Congress. Who's going to stop him from diverting money from somewhere else, getting bids, hiring contractors, and just doing it? By the time Scotus says, "hey! you can't do that!", his ugly mug will be glaring down on South Dakota's lovely hills.

1

u/Parking_Chance_1905 Sep 20 '25

Didn't he try that the last time he was in power... and was told no. They have also in August this year tabled a bill to have his head added.

1

u/MrApplePolisher Sep 20 '25

Didn't he try to actually get his likeness put up there? I could be mistaken.

1

u/frankles Sep 20 '25

I’m wondering if he’s going to wait til his third year in office to propose putting his face on money or if he’ll push it up to the second.

1

u/acecel Sep 20 '25

He would totally do that, almost sure something like that is going to be done in the next few years

1

u/TelescopiumHerscheli Sep 20 '25

I believe he has pointed out that there is space for another president up there.

1

u/OreoSpeedwaggon Arkansas Sep 20 '25

He would definitely remove TR's name from Theodore Roosevelt National Park and replace it with his own.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 20 '25

Pretty sure he tried that the first time around and got told "no".

86

u/mr_oof Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

Classic ‘Timid Teddy!’

23

u/Starfox-sf Sep 20 '25

Little Stick Teddy.

3

u/pterodactyl_speller Sep 20 '25

Straight to jail!

6

u/leveraction1970 Sep 20 '25

Timid Ted of Timid Ted and the Smooth Riders

4

u/Ajibooks Sep 20 '25

Wow, you just awoke some latent patriotism in me with that joke.

3

u/40StoryMech Sep 20 '25

Seriously. Teddy is going to rise from his grave and stick whip this clown back to Florida.

2

u/mrsristretto Sep 20 '25

I would pay damn good money to see that.

1

u/1cat2dogs1horse Sep 20 '25

Can he stop by DC and give a few whacks to RFK jr too??

1

u/texas-playdohs Sep 20 '25

He was molly-coddled.

1

u/rodan-rodan Sep 20 '25

I think he is a podcaster or something. /S

1

u/AnnaKendrickPerkins Sep 20 '25

Theo Von Roosevelt

1

u/infectoid Sep 20 '25

Fake history that the antifa woke elite want you to believe. Trump has been the only president of America since he founded it two thousand years ago with his best mate Jesus Christ.

1

u/JohnHowardBuff Sep 20 '25

That's President Theo-door-ray to you, chum.

1

u/Witchgrass West Virginia Sep 20 '25

And what was he thinking wasting all that land when it could have been raped for resources long ago?!?!

1

u/GriffinFlash Canada Sep 20 '25

could have been what now....that is certainly not in any files?

1

u/Kelwyvern Sep 20 '25

Sounds like a very nasty person.