Popular vote loser and delicate snowflake Donald Trump has found yet another liberal institution to threaten:
What drew his ire this time? One of his little Breitbart friends had a bad night:
The university opted to cancel [Milo] Yiannopoulos’s speech roughly two hours before it was set to begin after a protest against his presence on the campus turned violent, CNN reported. The school blamed “150 masked agitators” with igniting the violence, which included Molotov cocktails and fireworks launched at police. Protesters also threw rocks at officers and smashed windows at the U.C. student center, where Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak.
So … canceling a speech for safety reasons is opposition to free speech? If Milo had been really dedicated to speaking, he could have gone out and stood before the protesters and said whatever he wanted—the university wasn’t muzzling him, it just wasn’t taking responsibility for his safety and the safety of his audience under the circumstances. (Those circumstances, by the way, were not “the university” “practic[ing] violence,” they were violence happening at the university. If violence that happens on an organization’s premises is automatically caused by that organization, can we revisit all those violent Trump rallies last year?)
If Trump wants Milo to be allowed to speak in the face of any level of protest, great! Let him speak. Of course, Milo himself might have some issues with facing the Molotov cocktails and rocks, but I guess if Trump says it, he has no choice. That’s the way the White House-Breitbart relationship works, right?