{"id":66350,"date":"2025-05-28T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66350"},"modified":"2025-07-04T12:36:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:36:17","slug":"marco-rubio-bans-visas-for-officials-who-censor-americans-such-as-marco-rubio-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66350","title":{"rendered":"Marco Rubio Bans Visas for Officials Who Censor Americans &#8211; Such as Marco Rubio and Trump?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After nearly two and half centuries, the American Constitution remains one of the most revered documents of independence and liberty ever written and adopted as the legal foundation of a democratic republic. It defines the basic governing principles for a free society that is truly made of, by, and for the people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Marco Rubio Bans Visas for Officials Who Censor Americans - Such as Marco Rubio and Trump?%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66350\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Marco Rubio Bans Visas for Officials Who Censor Americans - Such as Marco Rubio and Trump?%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66350\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump, Censorship\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39062\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That said, if there is one thing for which Donald Trump has distinguished himself throughout his occupation of the White House, it is his fervent aversion to the Constitution and especially its prohibitions on abridging freedom of the press and free speech. He has literally taken control over the once independently managed White House Press briefings in order to transform it into a pro-Trump puppet show of pure propaganda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=65357\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Declares Himself King of the White House Press Corps, Will Now Decide Who Can Question Him<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday Trump&#8217;s Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, accelerated the autocratic aspirations of the Trump regime by issuing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/may\/28\/us-refuse-visas-foreign-officials-social-media\" target=\"_blank\">a new decree<\/a><\/strong> aimed at foreign government officials and other diplomats seeking to visit the United States. Rubio tweeted that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For too long, Americans have been fined, harassed, and even charged by foreign authorities for exercising their free speech rights.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, I am announcing a new visa restriction policy that will apply to foreign officials and persons who are complicit in censoring Americans. Free speech is essential to the American way of life \u2013 a birthright over which foreign governments have no authority.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:lvknxpm7ys2p44jtbtx2tz2b\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lqasohvgi426\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiftytjra54bzj4s3ebecyg2xipx4s4gfdvqbau272kbiykflqx6vu\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Paging Mr Orwell, Mr George Orwell. Please come to the White courtesy phone.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:lvknxpm7ys2p44jtbtx2tz2b?ref_src=embed\">digby (@digby56.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:lvknxpm7ys2p44jtbtx2tz2b\/post\/3lqasohvgi426?ref_src=embed\">2025-05-28T18:15:01.190Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rubio&#8217;s policy specifically references foreign nations and\/or persons engaging in the moderation of social media in order to mitigate hate speech, disinformation, and efforts to incite violence. It&#8217;s the sort of responsible moderation that was practiced in the U.S. until Trump coerced American tech platforms to discontinue it so that Trump and his cult followers could rabble-rouse uninterrupted.<\/p>\n<p>However, the flaming hypocrisy of Rubio&#8217;s decree is impossible to ignore. The Trump administration is the most censorious regime to assume power in America since the 1950&#8217;s blacklisting and McCarthyism. Trump has been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66004\" target=\"_blank\">persecuting Harvard University and other academic institutions<\/a><\/strong> who refused to kiss his&#8230; let&#8217;s say ring. He has been pressuring law firms (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-law-firm-mueller-executive-order-38f59ba3f701c9f988df0488d42b3b5f\" target=\"_blank\">not always successfully<\/a><\/strong>) to kneel down before him, and even pledge the support of hundreds of millions of dollars in free representation for his MAGA agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps worst of all, Trump has been <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66162\" target=\"_blank\">threatening the media with billion dollar lawsuits<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=63255\" target=\"_blank\">revocation of broadcast licenses<\/a><\/strong> unless they kowtow to him and his fixation on getting the press to lavish him with unflinching adoration.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, Trump has installed himself as the chairman of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; he has banned the Associated Press from presidential media avails; he appointed Kari Lake to head the United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which manages Radio Free Europe\/Radio Liberty (RFE\/RL), Radio Free Asia (RFA), Radio Television Mart\u00ed, the Middle East Broadcasting Networks (MBN), and the Voice of America (VOA). And Lake has already made some preposterous decisions&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR INSTANCE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=66182\" target=\"_blank\">Trump Flunky Kari Lake Taps MAGA Propaganda Network, OAN, to Be the Voice of Voice of America<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the same day that Rubio issued his decree, Trump&#8217;s Re-education Secretary, Linda McMahon, told CNBC that universities must be <em>&#8220;in sync&#8221;<\/em> with the Trump administration in order to receive government grants. That will prohibit funding for life-saving research on cancer, Alzheimer&#8217;s, and other devastating illnesses.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:fviqe3xscfdntuwbuzppqetg\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3lqak3wndgk2a\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreigjeelaxwtagi47rq7zzf352r7adwjd3o7hivmnwkkmlxfs5rxpqu\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Trump&#39;s Re-education Secretary, Linda McMahon, says that universities must be &#34;in sync with the administration.&#34;In other words, they must abandon academic freedom and submit to their government overlords. Because that&#39;s what cult leader Trump demands.<\/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\/3lqak3wndgk2a?ref_src=embed\">2025-05-28T15:41:30.011Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If Rubio&#8217;s decree were to be fairly enforced, Trump and most of his Cabinet would be unable to get visas to enter the U.S. Their blatant and shameless acts of censorship would fail to meet Rubio&#8217;s criteria. So while Rubio and Trump are whining about what they imagine to be censorship by foreigners, they are the worst practitioners of it. Now, if we could only get them to self-deport.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64849\" target=\"_blank\">Tyrant Trump Decrees that it is Verboten for Government to Call Out Mis- and Disinformation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64117\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Free Press? 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It defines the basic governing principles for a free society that is truly made of, by, and for the people. 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