https://reluctant-citizen.unsigned.blog/tags/pressfreedom/Recent content in Press Freedom on Reluctant CitizenHugoen-USTue, 27 Oct 2026 11:16:11 +0000https://reluctant-citizen.unsigned.blog/the-crazy-things-trump-says-part-1-strongmen-loyalty-and-the-press/Tue, 27 Oct 2026 11:16:11 +0000https://reluctant-citizen.unsigned.blog/the-crazy-things-trump-says-part-1-strongmen-loyalty-and-the-press/There is a habit in American politics of laughing off what Donald Trump says. It was a joke. It was sarcasm. He was trolling. Take him seriously, not literally. Some of the time, that defense is fair, and I will tell you when his side said it. But after ten years of campaigns and two terms in office, the words have piled up into a pattern, and the pattern is not funny.