After President Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, he proceeded to sign a breathtaking number of executive orders and actions.
According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, on just his first day in office, President Trump signed:
42 Executive Orders/Memoranda/Proclamations
115 personnel actions
More than 200 executive actions
President Trump’s new official X account shared this video shortly after the president’s inauguration:
On January 20, the president signed three batches of executive orders – some on Capitol Hill just minutes after he was sworn in, some at the Capitol One arena, and even more from the Oval Office.
At the arena, one of the most important executive orders the president signed (and which the Daily Citizen initially reported on) is titled Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.
The order proclaims:
The order states that “Under the guise of combatting ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation,’ the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate.”
“Government censorship of speech is intolerable in a free society,” it adds.
Therefore, the executive order declares that it is the policy of the United States to:
secure the right of the American people to engage in constitutionally protected speech;
ensure that no Federal Government officer, employee, or agent engages in or facilitates any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen;
ensure that no taxpayer resources are used to engage in or facilitate any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen; and
identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to censorship of protected speech.
Furthermore, the order directs the U.S. attorney general, with the cooperation of the heads of executive departments and agencies, to “investigate the activities of the Federal Government over the last 4 years” related to the censorship of speech “and prepare a report to be submitted to the President … with recommendations for appropriate remedial actions to be taken based on the findings of the report.”
In 2020, the FBI advised Twitter (now X) to censor content related to the Hunter Biden laptop story, alleging – despite any evidence – that the laptop may have been hacked.
In 2023, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals found the White House, the Surgeon General, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) coerced or encouraged social-media companies to censor speech related to the COVID-19 lab-leak theory, pandemic lockdowns, vaccine side-effects, election fraud, and the Hunter Biden laptop story.
This led the 5th Circuit to conclude,
The right to free speech is deeply embedded in American society, and is secured by the First Amendment to the Constitution, which states:
While most people agree there should be some limits upon speech – indeed, the freedom of speech is not absolute – it’s been deeply concerning to witness the federal government censor speech that is true, but it doesn’t like.
We hope and pray this kind of censorship from the federal government is at an end.
Related articles and resources:
Court Rules Government Violated First Amendment With Social Media Censorship
Judge Rules Against Federal Government Censoring Speech on Social Media
‘The Twitter Files Part Two’ – Documentation of ‘Twitter’s Secret Blacklists’
‘The Twitter Files’ – Elon Musk Releases Details of New York Post Censorship
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