Hate speech finds new meaning in Trump 2.0
“We’ll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly, it’s hate. You have a lot of hate in your heart.”
When Reporters without Borders released their annual world press freedom index only a few months ago in May 2025, the United States ranked 57th in the world.
At the time, the Associated Press was banned from the White House for committing the “unpatriotic” offense of not referring to the Gulf of America by its new name. ABC News settled Trump’s defamation lawsuit for $16 million, and Paramount Global (parent company of CBS News) was considering settling its $2 billion dollar lawsuit with Trump for their “deceptive editing” of an interview with then Vice President Kamala Harris that Trump’s legal team claims was tantamount to “election interference.”
Since then, Paramount Global settled for $16 million, and President Trump has sued the New York Times (NYT) for $15 billion while still fighting lawsuits against the Wall Street Journal and the Des Moines Register. Trump’s new lawsuit names individuals and companies involved in publishing “Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Father’s Fortune and Created the Illusion of Success.”
Ranting and raving in his vengeance tour is not new to this President and his sycophants. What has changed is what new groups they sink their teeth into.