{"id":60292,"date":"2026-09-19T23:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60292"},"modified":"2026-09-19T23:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T23:05:07","slug":"wow-trump-tells-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60292","title":{"rendered":"Wow! Trump tells the truth!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=media%20%23FirstAmendment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\r\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">While ranting about the dangers of a free press, Donald Trump actually told the truth &#8230; he uttered a statement that holds up to scrutiny.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We live in a country that allows people to report things that are negative,&#8221; Trump said while invoking a ban on certain news agencies from the White House.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So help me, I didn&#8217;t think I could report on this blog an actual truthful statement from the POTUS. But there it is. Holy smokes! Stop the presses!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump, of course, issued what is looking like a patently unconstitutional order by banning CNN, MSNow and Politico from the White House. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares that the government cannot &#8220;abridge the freedom of speech, or of the press.&#8221; The president, therefore, cannot prohibit the media from doing its constitutionally protected job.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump will get his comeuppance once the courts get hold of this case and his banning of news organizations will be send to the scrap heap, where it belongs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As for the ability to &#8220;report things that are negative,&#8221; what in the world is the alternative? The way I see it, the alternative lies in a totalitarian state where the media are banned by law from reporting negatively on government decisions. Violations of such a law would result in imprisonment or worse.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank goodness we live in a country that allows the press to function independently without fear of punishment.<\/p>\r\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=media%20%23FirstAmendment&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While ranting about the dangers of a free press, Donald Trump actually told the truth &#8230; he uttered a statement that holds up to scrutiny. &#8220;We live in a country that allows people to report things that are negative,&#8221; Trump said while invoking a ban on certain news agencies from the White House. So help &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=60292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wow! Trump tells the truth!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[1738,1812,2978,5043],"class_list":["post-60292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-media-news","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-press","tag-media","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60294,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60292\/revisions\/60294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}