President Donald Trump doubled down on his administration’s brazen attacks against free speech in a Friday afternoon press conference, telling reporters that publishing negative stories about him is “really illegal.”

Asked by a reporter whether he sees a difference between “cancel culture and consequence culture,” the president called it “a trick question,” noting “I’m a very strong person for free speech.”

The way Trump sees it, the math just doesn’t add up. Referring to his victory in the 2024 election as “a landslide times two” (right after calling it a “landside”), the president doesn’t see how a person could have the “level of popularity or voter support as I did in the last election, and yet 97 percent of the people are against me in the sense of the newscasts are against me.”

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