Washington (CNN) – President Donald Trump is now campaigning as a warrior against what he says is a left-wing “cancel culture” that seeks to get people punished or banished for supposedly objectionable words or acts.
“One of their political weapons is ‘cancel culture’ — driving people from their jobs, shaming dissenters and demanding total submission from anyone who disagrees. This is the very definition of totalitarianism, and it is completely alien to our culture and our values, and it has absolutely no place in the United States of America,” Trump said in a July 3 speech at Mount Rushmore.
This is a curious argument, to put it mildly, coming from Donald Trump.
Trump has long railed against “political correctness.” But he has also tried for years to get people and entities punished or banished for what he considers objectionable words and acts. Trump has explicitly advocated cancellations, boycotts and firings on numerous occasions — often simply because he doesn’t like something his target has said.
We made a list of such occasions. Don’t bother telling us it isn’t complete; there are so many examples of Trump playing canceler that we’re sure we missed some.
And we deliberately omitted cases in which Trump as President fired officials or called before his presidency for political officials to be fired for political reasons. Though definitions of supposed “cancel culture” vary, those cases, in our view, just don’t qualify.
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President Trump has long railed against "political correctness." But he has also tried for years to get people and entities punished or banished for what he considers objectionable words and acts. https://t.co/lcwQ6xZ1D3
— CNN (@CNN) July 8, 2020
*Some* people and entities Trump has tried to get canceled:
Touré
Univision
Debra Messing
Macy's
Kneeling players
NYMag
Charles Krauthammer
Katy Tur
CNN
WSJ editorial board
Rich Lowry
Karl Rove
Vanity Fair
Glenfiddich
Bill Maher
Rolling Stone
Mexicohttps://t.co/Uaxyz6RSIa— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) July 7, 2020
Noam Chomsky was a Cambodian Genocide denier who defended Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and today I learned cancel culture has gotten too wacky even for him
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) July 7, 2020
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