Trump to Europe: embrace Nazi trash or else
Mere days after the EU fined Elon for running Twitter as a Nazi bar, his bro Donald wants Europe to stop cleaning up its platforms and start tolerating Nazis, in the name of “free speech.”
In a nice little show of “regulations for thee, but not for me,” the administration began threatening action against European companies like Spotify and Siemens unless the EU stops trying to enforce its own rules. It is no coincidence whatsoever that this little bit of mob boss mentality came one week after the EU penalized X.
Pretending that requiring a company to follow basic transparency rules is the height of censorship is especially ridiculous given that Federal Communications Commission Director Brendan Carr, back when he was a Project 2025 guy, called for platforms to be required to explain and justify all editorial decisions. That is quite a bit more heavy-handed than the EU requirement that X keep some ad records.
What makes the demand especially grotesque is its ideological clarity. This isn’t about abstract free expression; it’s about protecting reactionary ecosystems that thrive on harassment, racism, and historical revisionism. Europe’s hard-learned lessons about where unchecked fascist speech leads are being dismissed as regulatory overreach. At the same time, American officials position themselves as the global enforcement arm of Silicon Valley’s most toxic business models and individual.
Europe spent the last century learning, the hard way, what happens when fascist speech is treated as just another opinion. The Trump administration’s demand isn’t ignorance of that history; it’s a rejection of it, in service of platforms and ideologies that perform better when nobody is allowed to say no.