Democratic lawmakers didn’t stand up for much during President Donald Trump’s speech before a joint session of Congress yesterday. Trump’s touting of the restoration of free speech was no exception.
Trump addressed a joint session of Congress Tuesday night, describing his administration’s early wins, laying out future plans, and criticizing the harmful policies of his predecessor, former President Joe Biden. During the speech, Trump declared he had “brought back free speech in America.” In fact, he signed an executive order ending government-tech censorship coordination on his first day in office. He also signed an executive order putting an end to the Biden administration’s anti-free speech AI policy agenda.
The president said, “[W]e have ended weaponized government, where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me. How did that work out? Not too good. Not too good. And I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America. It's back.”
The Democrats did not stand for or applaud free speech, instead staying silent in their seats in a shocking sign of support for censorship.
.@realDonaldTrump: "I have stopped all government censorship and
— Tom Olohan (@tolohan) March 5, 2025
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Later in the speech, Trump also praised his audience members who, like America’s Founders, showed “that same strength, faith, love and spirit is still alive and thriving in the hearts of the American people, despite the best efforts of those who would try to censor us, silence us, break us, destroy us. Americans today are a proud, free, sovereign and independent nation that will always be free—and we will fight for it until death.”
Trump also called Biden “the worst president in American history.” Indeed, for free speech advocates, Biden was perhaps the worst, as his administration was exposed by MRC research, The Twitter Files and the Murthy v. Missouri lawsuit for launching and growing a full-scale censorship regime in collusion with Big Tech.
As noted above, the congressional Democrats did not applaud free speech during Trump’s speech. Two Democrat lawmakers, Sen. Alex Padilla (CA) and Rep. Joseph Morelle (NY), recently wrote to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) over the Trump administration’s free speech reforms at CISA, asserting that “election mis- and disinformation” necessitated the agency’s continued censorship efforts.
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