Donald Trump sure does love to tout the First Amendment that protects the American citizens’ right to free speech, but only under the condition that they’re saying nice things about him. I honestly believe if he could have it his way, we’d be a carbon copy of North Korea — anyone who dared to say a cross, unsavory word about him would soon find themselves beheaded in the nearest town square.
The man has literally built both of his presidential campaigns on the basis of disparaging any media outlet that has the audacity to call him out on his bullshit, immediately labeling them as “fake news” and ensuring that his base has nothing but a steady flow of state-run Fox News to keep them “educated.” Because when it comes to MAGAs, if the president says don’t watch it, they don’t watch it.
Donald even goes so far as to refuse to take questions from reputable media outlets because he seems to believe that good news is the only news when it comes to him, at least.
But when Trump and his good ol’ pal Putin visited Finland together last year Kaius Niemi, the editor of Finland’s biggest newspaper Helsingin Sanomat wanted both of the world leaders to know just exactly how they feel about them — by erecting a staggering 280 billboards throughout the nation’s capital all along the route that would be taken by the pair, both in English and Russian so neither of them felt left out, to let them know how committed Finland is to that free press Donald and Putin hate so much.
As we welcome the presidents to the summit in Helsinki, we @hsfi want to remind them of the importance of free press. 300 billboards on the routes from the airport to the summit are filled with news headlines regarding presidents’ attitude towards the pressfreedom. #HELSINKI2018 pic.twitter.com/KmYJtLyeNE
— Kaius Niemi (@KaiusNiemi) July 15, 2018
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And some for Putin to ensure he was in on the loop too:
— Kaius Niemi (@KaiusNiemi) July 15, 2018
Something tells me Finland wanted to make damn sure that these two fuckwits were well aware that their desire to silence the public would not be well received in their country.
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