This is simply SCROTUS' active denial on exhibit: "Everyone LOVES me. Even college kids LOVE me. There cannot be any significant protests objecting to me, my policies, or my supporters on college campuses, because of all the LOVE - of me! Therefore I declare this issue 'overblown'."

Plz post more meltdowns on Slog

Wish Sydney and Heidi posted at the level they used to. I find myself wondering if they still work for the Stranger. Ana doesn't seem to any longer.

Oh gosh Katie, are you okay?

...ok, I am now 100% convinced that who we think is actually Donald Trump is actually Sacha Baron Cohen, Andy Kaufman, or the Greek goddess Eris(Chaos, discord, confusion, bureaucracy, and international relations) or somehow "he" is all three in some strange mixture that if you contemplate it too long you risk going even crazier than we all already are.

in Mortal Kombat, they call this a Fatality.

@1,

Agreed. I feel like he probably doesn't really have the capacity to understand (or at least comment intelligently) on a concept as nuanced as free speech and it's inherent limitations. His stances are more along the lines of, "Terrorists, immigrants bad! Money good!" and so when a constituent hits him with a 'Gotcha!' question like this that he hasn't been briefed on and told what to say, he just has to deflect as best he can. Incidentally, I genuinely wonder if he has any more than a cursory understanding of how tariffs work.

Yes, Trump's remarks are tangential as @1 described, but I don't understand this Katie bashing on a twist that other media are covering.

His concept of free speech is as backwards as yours and white supremacists. You have no business writing anything at all Nazi enabler and it's discussing the stranger still gives you space and a job.

Oh what a day when I have to agree with @10, clearly Katie is employing sarcasm and hyperbole. I personally enjoy her writing, keep up the good work!

As others have already said, Trump didn't understand the question. He only heard a claim that his support was low in universities, and because he's a stupid, terrible person without an ounce of self-reflection, he reflexively argued that everybody loves him, in his typical lizard-ego fashion.

@14: Because he makes the trains run on time?

its the Stigginit that his voters respect, anyway. Spite makes them cheer; even his dumbest statements and actions are brilliant, because they enrage libtards.

Young "patriots" and conservatives believe it's harder than ever to espouse support for Trump and the "ideas" he's fighting for? GOOD. Maybe some reality is finally starting to get through the cultist cloud they're living in.