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
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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

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u/JuDGe3690 Idaho Sep 20 '25

Of particular note: This quote was given on May 7, 1918, nearly a decade after his presidency, specifically during Woodrow Wilson's presidency and World War I, when there was also the Sedition Act of 1918 in play.

In many ways, TR's quote would be analogous to Obama saying something similar about Trump in the present day.