{"id":64849,"date":"2025-01-23T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64849"},"modified":"2025-01-23T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T21:30:24","slug":"tyrant-trump-decrees-that-it-is-verboten-for-government-to-call-out-mis-and-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64849","title":{"rendered":"Tyrant Trump Decrees that it is Verboten for Government to Call Out Mis- and Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as Donald Trump has been a political figure, he has expressed his animosity toward the free press, regularly referring to it in Stalinist terms as <em>&#8220;the enemy of the people.&#8221;<\/em> Despite his dependence on the media to disseminate his lies and propaganda, he can&#8217;t seem to refrain from lambasting journalists and news organizations in the most vile manner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Tyrant Trump Decrees that it is Verboten for Government to Call Out Mis- and Disinformation%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64849\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-constitution.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Constitution\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42072\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Among the most disconcerting prospects of the new Trump administration is his intention to clamp down on the media and impose the sort censorship that is explicitly prohibited by the First Amendment to the Constitution. It&#8217;s a core principle of his authoritarian aspirations. During his campaign he made his intentions known in a commentary calling for the revocation of broadcast licenses for all TV news networks. No, really&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63255\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrant Trump Demands ALL TV News Licenses Be Revoked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday Trump spoke to the global elites gathered at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. And nestled into a long and rambling speech filled with his hallmark lies, threats, and self-exaltations, was a hidden gem of despotic dreamers everywhere. He bragged about his executive order banning misinformation and disinformation as subjects that could not be discussed by government. In other words, he could now spew all the blatantly false propaganda he wants and no person in any official capacity would be permitted to criticize it for being mis- or disinformation, even though that&#8217;s exactly what it is.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m pleased to report that America is also a free nation once again. On day one, I signed an executive order to stop all government censorship. No longer will our government label the speech of our own citizens as misinformation or disinformation, which are the favorite words of censors and those who wish to stop the free exchange of ideas.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump: I&#39;m pleased to report that America is also a free nation once again. On day one, I signed an executive order to stop all government censorship. No longer will our government label the speech of our own citizens as misinformation or disinformation, <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xUx6LiS0PU\">pic.twitter.com\/xUx6LiS0PU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1882463069215064546?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently Trump&#8217;s idea of a <em>&#8220;free nation&#8221;<\/em> is one that allows him to lie with impunity, while prohibiting any speech that he doesn&#8217;t like. Furthermore, in Trump&#8217;s Orwellian speak, accurately identifying something as disinformation is itself censorship and must be&#8230;well&#8230;censored. And you&#8217;ll never guess who Trump thinks is one of the main the offenders of his censorial edict. Just one day prior to his diatribe at Davos, Trump whined on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64392\" target=\"_blank\">his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, that CNN and MSNBC should be barred from the air&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lgfmglfkbc26\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreifkcc4szvlgi5d2mhqzrypvrswgohvcc3uex6x2tnzjlbccmpcthm\">\n<p lang=\"en\">WHAT 1st AMENDMENT?Wannabe dictator Trump posts comment whining that CNN and MSNBC &#34;shouldn&#39;t even have a right to broadcast.&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg?ref_src=embed\">News Corpse (@newscorpse.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/post\/3lgfmglfkbc26?ref_src=embed\">2025-01-23T09:54:37.215Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And that wasn&#8217;t the only time. Nearly a year ago he wailed that&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=60528\" target=\"_blank\">THEY\u2019RE EVIL! Wannabe Dictator Trump Says MSNBC \u2018Shouldn\u2019t Even Be Allowed\u2019 to Be On the Air<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In addition to Trump&#8217;s remarks at Davos, he also <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/29254\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a><\/strong> that he will be appointing L. Brent Bozell III to run the United States Agency for Global Media. Among other things, the USAGM oversees Voice of America, for which Trump has named failed MAGA governor and senator candidate, Kari Lake, as its new director. Bozell is the far-right extremist who ran the pure propaganda purveyor, Media Research Center. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/justice-department\/conservative-scion-brent-bozell-iv-sentenced-jan-6-case-rcna151150\" target=\"_blank\">His son is a convicted felon<\/a><\/strong> who was sentenced to nearly four years for his role in the January 6th insurrection, for which he was just pardoned by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is consistent with Trump&#8217;s mission to kneecap the press and turn its hobbled remains into an outlet for MAGA lies and propaganda. And in the early days of Trump 2.0 the media has not demonstrated much courage in resisting Trump&#8217;s bullying tactics.<\/p>\n<p>So it will up to patriotic citizens to make their views known and to influence the cowardly elements in the media to do their damn jobs and report honestly about the nefarious acts being proposed and carried out by the felonious occupant of the White House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64840\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Gets Hit Where it Hurts: TV Ratings for His Inauguration Fall 27% Below Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64833\" target=\"_blank\">REALLY? Trump Proposes Allowing the US Government (and China?) to \u2018Police\u2019 Americans on TikTok<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64117\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Free Press? 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