{"id":5870,"date":"2026-04-11T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=5870"},"modified":"2026-04-11T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:55:21","slug":"no-president-ever-tried-this-trump-just-did-on-live-camera-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=5870","title":{"rendered":"No President Ever Tried This. Trump Just Did \u2014 On Live Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>A free press cannot afford to meet that kind of threat with timid statements and quiet editorials. The response must be coordinated, transparent, and unapologetically public. Newsrooms should double down on rigorous fact-checking of those in power, not pull back. They should publish the threats themselves, show audiences the pressure being applied, and explain why it matters to every citizen, not just to journalists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just as crucial, outlets must resist being divided and played against one another. When one is attacked, others should cover it prominently, regardless of ideological differences. Legal organizations, press-freedom groups, and civil society must be brought into the spotlight, not kept in the background. The strongest answer to \u201cThat\u2019s going to change\u201d is a united front that calmly replies: we\u2019re not going anywhere, and neither are the rights we exercise on your behalf.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A free press cannot afford to meet that kind of threat with timid statements and quiet editorials. The response must be coordinated, transparent, and unapologetically public. Newsrooms should double down &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5872,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5870\/revisions\/5872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}