Trump To Issue Executive Order To Destroy Twitter After Latest Tantrum

According to White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Donald Trump is preparing to issue an executive order aimed at social media. She didn't elaborate on what the executive order would do, but it is related to Donald Trump's meltdown over Twitter issuing a fact check of one of his many lies on the social media network. Legal scholars have already said any attempt to silence these companies is a clear violation of the Constitution, but that is unlikely to stop the President. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Donald Trump is still furious at Twitter for fact checking him the other day for the first time in years. I mean, after hundreds and hundreds of lies this man has told on Twitter, possibly thousands. Twitter finally comes along and for one little tweet they say like, Hey, get, get the facts here. He lid about this. So one time out of potentially thousands of lies, Twitter decides to very subtly call him out for it. Trump throws a massive tantrum, has a complete meltdown. So today we get an executive order from the president trying to reign in and effectively destroy the neutrality of social media websites. This executive order would allow for the federal trade commission, the FTC and the federal communications commission, the FCC to investigate claims of political bias and social media outlets. So if you think Twitter is shadow banning you because you're a conservative, you can file a complaint and the federal government is going to have to go and investigate it.

Now, if you're mad, that Diamond and Silk/s\\'s page got removed from Facebook, you can file a complaint and then the federal government, uh, with your tax dollars is going to have to investigate why Mark Zuckerberg took out Diamond and Silks page. This, uh, it's really hard to talk about this with a straight face because it's so dumb, not just because of what the order does, right? But because it's so illegal for the president to do this, that it's shocking he's even bothering with it. Folks. This isn't going to hold up in any court across the country, no matter how many conservatives it's packed with. This is very, very, very, very, very clearly a violation of the first amendment. The federal government does not have any power whatsoever to regulate the politics or policies of the private businesses. They simply don't because if they do, then suddenly that baker out in middle America that didn't want to make a cake for the, a gay couple, Oh, you can't, you can't do that anyway and see like it's a slippery slope.

It's not going to fly. Twitter is not doing anything to punish conservatives over liberals. Facebook is not doing that either. It's just that conservatives are a little bit whiny or about it when they're the ones who get banned or blocked or whatever suspended. So they go out there and they cry, piss and moan, cause Republicans are a bunch of little babies. Democrats don't typically do that. So nonetheless, that's what's happened. So we get this order. The president thinks he can reign in the powers of these social media giants for things that aren't even true. By the way, that's the craziest part here. These things that the president thinks are happening aren't even actually happening. Right. We've had studies about this. We've had reports on this. It's not true. But just imagine if the president got this pissed off and worked up over, I don't know, a hundred thousand people dying from covert 19 here in the United States.