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Humor, Politics, First Amendment

Dealing With the Trump Crackdown on Free Speech

Unsolicited advice to avoid Presidential anger

4 min readSep 21, 2025

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My goal for the week is to help tone down the political rhetoric that is dividing our country. I worry that we are coming apart at the seams. To prevent irreparable damage to the country once described as the shining city on a hill, those of us who are not supporters of the President and his movement need to do their part.

I have drafted a memo to help them, knowing, of course, that my memo offers no help to supporters of the President who, hopefully, also would like more civil discourse. With luck, a Trump supporter may see my effort and write a similar memo that might fall into the hands of Stephen Miller, Pam Bondi, J.D. Vance, Kash Patel, the President, and others.

Here’s my memo:

To: Anyone critical of Donald Trump, his policies, his personal history, and his rhetoric

Friends, the political arena is getting too hot. Everything anyone other than the President’s supporters says seems to anger the President and his supporters. As a result, the…

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