A few weeks ago, Donald Trump‘s spokesperson claimed that he had „single-handedly brought back free speech.“ It was an odd thing to say for a variety of reasons. First, the US has really strong free speech protections and they haven‘t gone away (even if there are some threats to them). That is, free speech doesn‘t need to be „brought back“ because it‘s already here. Second, Trump himself, just a few weeks earlier was quoted deliberately mocking free speech, claiming that people who support it are „foolish people.“ And then, of course, there‘s the fact that Trump has a very, very long and detailed history of both threatening to sue, and actually suing, over the speech of others.