In Knight First Amendment Institute v. Trump, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals held in 2019 that the president cannot use a private platform like Twitter “for all manner of official purposes” while “exclud[ing] persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue (continued below)
because they express[] views with which [he] disagrees.” That holding makes Trump’s claim that Twitter’s fact-checking and tagging his tweets violates HIS First Amendment rights all the more ludicrous. Another case of projection:
Trump always accuses his critics and opponents of violating the very rules and norms that he himself violates. It’s a psychological quirk that worked to get him all the way to the White House, but I believe it has at long last run its course.
