Donald Trump hasn’t passed many pieces of legislation in his second presidency, mostly making policy through executive orders and other such actions. But on Tuesday, Trump signed a rare new law, putting his signature to the Take It Down Act, an anti-revenge porn message.
First, per the Daily Mail, Melania Trump also signed the law.
The White House described the new law in a statement as “a key initiative of First Lady Melania Trump and a landmark step in the fight to protect victims of digital exploitation.” The law, just the sixth Trump has signed in his second term, had strong bipartisan support.
Melania just did something no First Lady has EVER done at White House https://t.co/ziaNpJkuEt via @MailOnline Why not encourage people deeply involved with a law to place their signature alongside POTUS’s to show ownership? A reward for leadership and hard work.
— Konstantinos (@Gitmoite) May 20, 2025
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“After signing the bill on Monday in the Rose Garden, Trump encouraged his wife to do so as well, handing over the binder featuring the law and telling her to go ahead. She smiled as she picked up a white pen to add her name underneath his,” the Daily Mail said.
It also marked Melania’s rare appearance at the White House during her second stint as first lady.
According to NBC News, the Take It Down Act bans nonconsensual online publication of sexually explicit images and videos, both authentic ones and “deepfakes.” There are also penalties for those who threaten to post such pictures.
The bill also “requires websites, through enforcement by the Federal Trade Commission, to remove such imagery after they receive requests from victims within 48 hours and to make efforts to take down copies.”
Once again, there was little opposition to this bill. But some have called Trump a hypocrite for signing it.
Taylor Swift might like a word with Trump about his Take It Down Act speech https://t.co/9Q6EM93SOe via @msnbc
— Dee (@KimMurakam81922) May 19, 2025
“Donald Trump, who routinely bullies his perceived enemies on social media, decried online harassment and the spread of fake photos on the internet during Monday’s signing of legislation meant to curb so-called revenge porn,” Hayley Miller wrote for MSNBC. Her piece noted that Trump has posted faked photos, including a fake photo of Kamala Harris with Sean Combs and a bogus image of Taylor Swift appearing to endorse Trump. However, as neither was pornographic, they would not have fallen under the new law’s language.
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