I would like to think this is a joke, but, it isn't. He needs to be charged with racketeering and hauled away in short order.
May 28, 2026By Eric Petry and Donald L. Weiner
The Emoluments Clauses, Explained (click here)
Trump is acting to limit competition and remove the truth from media content. This is very dangerous and it needs to stop now.
Antitrust laws (click here) are designed to boost competition by forbidding monopolies and similar concentrations of business ownership, as well as practices such as price fixing that are associated with them. Probably the most famous federal antitrust laws are the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 and the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914. In the media industry, antitrust restrictions on ownership interact in distinctive ways with the constitutional right to freedom of speech.
The First Amendment of the Constitution prevents restraints on the freedom of the press. This principle has spurred the vision of a "marketplace of ideas," in which a diverse range of opinions can compete for public attention and help sustain a healthy democracy. If a handful of people or entities control most of the media, this could undermine the marketplace of ideas. The goals of the First Amendment thus align to some extent with the goals of antitrust law. For example, in a 1945 decision involving the Associated Press, the Supreme Court determined that the Sherman Act prevented the AP from imposing limits on new members and forbidding AP members from selling AP news to non-members. The Court argued that this result protected the marketplace of ideas....
