{"id":14705,"date":"2025-03-11T06:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T11:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=14705"},"modified":"2025-03-11T07:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:19:59","slug":"potus-first-amendment-violation-trump-threatens-students-universities-if-they-engage-in-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=14705","title":{"rendered":"NAKED FIRST AMENDMENT VIOLATION! Trump Threatens Students, Universities If They Engage in Protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14706\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-7.39.05-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-7.39.05-AM.png 491w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screen-Shot-2025-03-11-at-7.39.05-AM-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In a Truth Social post on Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump said he would punish students who engage in demonstrations of any kind \u2014 a clear violation of their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/constitution\/first_amendment\">First Amendment speech and assembly rights<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 and threatened consequences for any college or university that allows protests to take place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114104167452161158\">Trump wrote in his post<\/a>, failing to specify what constitutes an \u201cillegal protest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president added that \u201cagitators\u201d taking part in demonstrations will either be \u201cimprisoned\u201d or \u201cpermanently sent back to the country from which they came.\u201d Trump also demanded that students be \u201cpermanently expelled\u201d or \u201carrested\u201d if they take part in protests.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/trump-threatens-students-universities-if-they-engage-in-protests\/\">https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/trump-threatens-students-universities-if-they-engage-in-protests\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}