The White House attacks on the media begin to look amazingly similar to those leading in other countries, which have been accepted by autocratic leaders in recent years.
President Donald Trump looks during a joint press conference in the Eastern room at the White House on February 27, 2025.
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On Tuesday, a few days after Trump and Vens tried to publicly beat the President of Ukrainian Volodimir Zelensky, and a day after the US stopped sharing information about exploration with Ukraine, two unusual events took place in Europe.
At first French President Emmanual Macron He accepted on the air to discuss how recent events showed that Europe could no longer count on the US in its overgrown conflict with Russia – and announced an emergency meeting in Paris by the leaders of the European Army’s headquarters. According to him, he would be open to discussing the provision of a French nuclear umbrella for colleagues of European countries.
A few hours later, four former UK ambassadors testified in the Parliamentary Committee on International Relations “seismic shift“The US-UK special relations. They claimed that when Trump, intelligence between the two countries would become more difficult, and they said that America seemed to follow that one of them called” the worldview of the Earth’s capture … may be correct. ” Moral philosophy, which is unlikely that the US has long adhered to close ties for the past century.
The former Ambassador Nigel Sheinwald directly stated: “In a more or less big foreign policy with which we are dealing today, we disagree with the US and have more alignment with our European partners.” Sir David Manning, another former ambassador, said that now the unthinkable opportunity was the US no longer appreciate Article 5, the mutual defense of the NATO alliance.
And then on Wednesday Europe initiated a huge 800 billion euro load programsIn response to emergencies, the global situation changes quickly.
The fact that the nearest allies in America are now publicly talking about the risk of rupture – and sharply rebuilding the policy in the shade of this rupture – volume volumes of global chaos that Trump unleashes. Trump breaks international partnerships that have been carefully raised by past presidents for decades, whether it will be his turn in Ukraine’s politics in America; Declaration of the Trade War against Mexico, Canada and China, with the European Union, India and other trading partners who are likely to suffer from themselves Tariffs come on April 2; Either USAID projects that have saved tens of millions of lives over the years.
The damage, of course, is not just abroad. At least, in part, Europe-huh leaders have recently been lectures by the Vice President of Afr Vens for alleged violations of the rights of speech-views on America and seeing the country based on the principle of free speech, which is now ready to use great intimidating powers of the Federal Government, to squeeze the views.
In addition to the massacre of the federal employee, Trump’s team also accepts the ax in the first amendment, the leading war against the media and against the universities that begin to look amazingly similar to wars in Hungary, Russia, Turkey and other countries that have accepted autocratic leaders in recent years.
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The game plan is quite simple: to start, use the legal system as aggressively as possible to sue the media. Even if you do not have good legal affairs, make it too painful and expensive to keep the target media on your land. Do not look further than Trump’s flamboyant lawsuits in $ 10 billion Against CBS for how they addressed their pre-choice with Kamal Vice President Harris as well as his A lawsuit against ABC News For the commentator George Stefanapoulos about sexual charges against him in the case of E. Zhanna Carola.
In the first, CBS agreed to provide unprocessed transcripts of the Trump team. In the latter, the mother company ABC Ponied increased by 15 million dollars And a note of regret to make the case leave. Not surprisingly, Trump perceived this as a check on his court strategy, and now probably on the news that is considered hostile Trump and his agenda, in the coming years, to face the tireless press of trial.
At the same time, Trump’s regime goes after the right to access the media to important places and events. The first raid came a couple of weeks ago when Associated Press was forbidden From meetings with the White House, because the news service served by an international audience has not surrendered to Trump, which demands that he call the Mexican Gulf of America. The AP sued for a refund, saying that the White House violated its rights to the first amendment, but today the courts did not order the journalists of the AP.
A few days after the ban of AP white house went on a giant step further, announcing that he takes control of Pool on the white house press And thus claiming that the authorities veto over what news will and do not allow the events that are covered by a pool of journalists.
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Traditionally, the members of the press, which outlets will be invited to the pool every day. For the White House, it is unprecedented to choose which journalists will cover the events. But this is what happens in 2025 in the United States.
Adding to the pogrom, the administration began to give private “Original politics“To choose extremely right networks such as the One America News network, and far -right in social media.
Therefore, in addition to the name, there is state -owned media in the country, working as a 24/7 propaganda for the Magazion – creating for Trump in government what they did for him in opposition, providing a completely rigid mouthpiece for any Kakya policy he creates every day. And efforts to manipulate the coating does not end there.
Trump has chosen the former governor and Senate Hopes, and the ultra-Laulist, Kari-Lek, become a special US Agency Advisor on Global Mass Media. Initially, it was planned to lead the voice of America, which grew up during the Cold War as a way to design America’s voice and values, including those who protect the freedom of speech and the press in the far parts of the world, and which exists as a subunit in USagm. However, the voice of America is probably now on the section of Doge. Even if it survives, usagm passed to clear it any sense of independence; Several journalists were investigated on works that are considered critical of Trump’s policy; Several stories considered critical were killed; And last week, the senior journalist was put on vacation in a report on social media, which are considered hostile to the new regime.
I could continue: there is an infinitely outrageous and hypocritical effort of Musk Block the X Accounts X The people he decides hostile to him and his values, including those who reported on his members of his DOGE team. There are letters which have been sent University, along with reports on social media Trump, demanding that they dissolve all the clubs and all scholarships that are considered in any way to promote variety, otherwise they will face the complete blockade of federal funds. Are Trump’s messages warn students Participating in the protest, which he will strive for their arrested, expelled from the university, and, when they are here, on student visas, deported. Are His messages are demanding That the newspapers are shot by observers from whom he does not approve.
Some of these actions have attracted a lot of attention, but many of them were lost among Trump’s cacophony and mad actions.
They should pay attention to them. Together, what we see is an attack on the free press and the ideals of free speech in scientific circles and abroad. It is redolent of the chilling Impact of McCartyism in the late 1940s and early 1950s, of the red scares in the post-world war II period, of the attacks on the Free Press launched duging. In the Deep South in the decades After the Civil War to run denizers of the Black Press out of Town and Out of State, to Physically Destroy Printing Presses, and To Threaten their reporters and observers, including fearless Ida B. Lyncies when their works were too critical of status.
All this stands in hard, vile, counterparts of the best values and traditions in America. And this consolidates the meaning among the traditional allies of America that the country is collecting the dark path that will take it far from the democratic landscape it previously inhabited.
The hard and chaotic second term Donald Trump is just beginning. In the first month, Trump’s office and his Like -Elon Musk (or this is the opposite?) Proved that nothing is safe from sacrifice at the altar without checking strength and wealth.
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