Suppress & Punish Protestors
1990
1990-01-01 Trump praised the Chinese government for their “strength and paramilitary action” during Tiananmen Square.
https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/trumps-praise-for-china-over-tiananmen-square-year
2020
2020-06-01 Law enforcement used excessive force to remove racial justice protestors from Lafayette Square. Trump asked if he could order law enforcement to “just shoot” the protestors.
https://www.acludc.org/lafayette-square-attack-timeline/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_photo_op_at_St._John%27s_Church
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/02/politics/esper-trump-protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/25/donald-trump-general-mark-milley-crack-skulls
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/09/1097517470/trump-esper-book-defense-secretary
2023
2023-12-30 Brendan Carr posted on X, “Free speech is the counterweight - it is democracy’s check on government control. That’s why censorship is the authoritarian’s dream…”
https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/1827680330179842435
2024 March
2024-03-27 Governor Greg Abbott ordered colleges to revise free speech policies to target pro-Palestinian groups.
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/27/israel-hamas-war-texas-universities/
2024 April
2024-04-01 In all fairness, there were multiple anti-war protests condemning the genocide in Gaza while Biden was still in office.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/31/biden-pro-palestine-protest-israel
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protests_in_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war_protest_vote_movements
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE9fOY1K1Pk
2024-04-05 Governor Greg Abbott threatened Texas college students with expulsion for protesting the genocide in Gaza.
2024-04-24 Mike Johnson called pro-Palestinian protestors “antisemitic”, threatened retaliatory measures to cut funding, and demanded the Columbia University president resign.
2024 May
2024-05-01 During a rally in Waukesha Wisconsin, Trump referred to protestors as “radicals” and told his crowd to “save the universities for normal people”.
2024-05-02 Lauren Boebert unsuccessfully tried to tear down a Palestinian flag during a protest at George Washington University.
2024-05-02 Charlie Kirk posted on X, “Hate speech does not exist legally in America. There’s ugly speech. There’s gross speech. There’s evil speech. And ALL of it is protected by the First Amendment. Keep America free.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5544342/where-could-the-u-s-government-restrict-free-speech
https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/protecting-free-speech-in-the-face-of-government-retaliation
2024-05-30 A nurse from New York was fired after referring to the war in Gaza a genocide during her acceptance speech for the compassion award.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nurse-fired-hesen-jabr-calling-gaza-war-genocide-compassion-award/
2024 June
2024-06-03 Columbia Law refused to take down a Palestine article, so the board of directors took down the entire website.
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/academic-freedom/2024/06/06/unprecedented-board-shutters-columbia-law-review2024-09-11 Trump was recorded on Fox News requesting preferred anchors for the debate.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-insults-fox-news-anchors-163830353.html
2025 February
2025-02-13 After a series of pro-Palestinian demonstrations, The Committee on Education and Workforce targeted Columbia University, demanding case files and proposed and enacted sanctions in response to a list of alleged antisemitic incidents from April 2024 through January 2025.
https://edworkforce.house.gov/uploadedfiles/2.13.25_columbia_letter.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHlQwOHuesY
2025 March
2025-03-04 Trump claimed protests were illegal and threatened funding from any college which allowed them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/trump-university-funding-protests
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/trump-columbia-university-federal-funding/
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114104167452161158
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/us/protests-legal-illegal-constitution-trump
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/04/trump-college-protests-israel-gaza-funding
2025-03-15 After protesting the genocide, Leqaa Kordia was detained and accused of overstaying her F-1 Visa. She has been detained for over a year before being released. She reports she endured seizures, was forced to shower in chains, and was not allowed to contact family or lawyers. She said in a statement the detention centers were “built to break people and destroy their health and hope”.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/urgent-actions/usa-release-detained-protester/
https://apnews.com/article/leqaa-kordia-ice-immigration-trump-f3c4cb201d00038313f202653b3f4673
2025-03-25 The administration revoked Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk’s visa after she co-authored a pro-Palestinian article. She was detained by ICE for six weeks before a court ordered her release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T98wJrupDMA
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/07/detained-tufts-student-rumeysa-ozturk-ruling
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/ice-agents-detain-tufts-university-graduate-student
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rumeysa-ozturk-tufts-student-denied-bond/
2025-03-27 Marco Rubio revoked over 300 student visas in retaliation for protests, saying, “Every time I find one of these lunatics I take away their visa”.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/marco-rubio-student-visas-palestine-00005141
2025 April
2025-04-03 Tufts University confirmed that a second student’s visa was terminated without notification.
2025-04-24 Governor Kim Reynolds signed House File 472 SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) which targets cases meant to intimidate a person from exercising their First Amendment rights.
2025 June
2025-06-02 Leaked emails exposed DHS use of the face-scanning app Mobile Fortify to add protestors to ICE databases.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/27/ice-facial-recognition-minnesota
2025-06-08 Stephen Miller claimed protests in Los Angeles were “an insurrection against the laws and sovereignty of the United States”.
2025-06-08 Trump decried that protestors in Los Angeles should be arrested for wearing masks.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114650947329138948
2025-06-11 A federal judge blocked Trump from deporting Mahmoud Khalil, ruling that it was unconstitutional to detain or deport someone based on their political advocacy.
2025 July
2025-07-15 U.S. Army Veteran Bajin Mavalwalla was arrested at his home one month after he participated in an anti-ice protest and faced up to six (6) years in prison for alleged conspiracy to impede an ICE officer. During the protest, 93 justice attorneys received a memo demanding they prioritize prosecutions of anti-ICE protesters. Of the attorneys who would not comply for obvious ethical reasons, they were either ousted or forced to resign.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-army-veteran-ice-protest-trial
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2026/jan/10/bajun-mavalwalla-ii-makes-first-public-statement-f/
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/insight/us-attorney-quits-over-ice-protest-case/gm-GM2CE84762
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujr8ktg4epY&t=458s
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/justice-department-prosecutors-immigration/
2025 October
2025-10-29 Kat Abughazaleh was indicted for protesting. She called the charges “yet another attempt by the Trump administration to criminalize protest and punish those who dare to speak up”.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/01/briefing-podcast-kat-abughazaleh-indictment-protest/
2026 January
2026-01-15 Trump said he would invoke the Insurrection Act against protests in Minneapolis.
2026-01-24 Stephen Miller was implicated of encouraging DHS tactics that contributed to confrontations preceding the death of Alex Pretti.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/26/trump-administration-alex-pretti-shooting-statements
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/politics/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-trump
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/27/trump-stephen-miller-massacre-minnesota-shooting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcpe9YceyyQ
https://newrepublic.com/post/208362/stephen-miller-orders-ice-alex-pretti-death
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/us/stephen-miller-alex-pretti-shooting.html
2026-01-30 Florida Republican James Fishback said that Don Lemon was “lucky that he’s not getting executed in the public square”.
ABOUT FISHBACK https://www.mediamatters.org/tucker-carlson/james-fishback-radical-rights-great-white-hope
FISHBACK PODCAST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOVEIliJ3dM
2026 February
2026-02-02 Former Army Ranger Ian Austin was arrested at a protest and charged with terrorism-related offenses.
TIMESTAMP 3:30 INTERVIEW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogFdQx4H98g&list=WL&index=1&t=261s
2026-02-13 New York politicians proposed banning protests with a 25-foot buffer zone around every house of worship.
2026 March
2026-03-28 The White House responded to a third No Kings protest in a statement, “The only people who care about these Trump Derangement therapy sessions are the reporters who are paid to cover them”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8wy7g1gd1o
https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/no-kings-protests-in-maryland/
2026 April
2026-04-08 Pentagon official Elbridge Colby threatened Pope Leo XIV, saying, “The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qZkia_-POE&list=WL&index=6&t=27s
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pentagon-threatened-pope-criticized-trump-212552754.html
https://www.thefp.com/p/why-the-vatican-and-the-white-house
PAY WALL https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-official-gives-vatican-bitter-lecture-amid-growing-rift/
2026-04-14 The same DOJ that wants to fire people for speaking out about Charlie Kirk or deport people for protesting genocide MOVED TO VACATE the most serious J6 convictions by the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, making it as though these most severe crimes never even happened.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/doj-moves-vacate-convictions-proud-boys-oath-keepers/story?id=132042992
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/15/g-s1-117473/justice-department-toss-seditious-conspiracy
2026-04-16 Tennessee enacted House Bill 1476 “Charlie Kirk Act,” restricting campus walkouts and certain protest activities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5hlrDtFYk&list=WL&index=3&t=98s
https://www.wkrn.com/news/tennessee-politics/charlie-kirk-act-passed/
https://www.newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-act-tennessee-free-speech-11837604
https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default?BillNumber=HB1476&GA=114
2026-04-20 At least 62 elderly and disabled Veterans were arrested for conducting a peaceful anti-war protest at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington D.C. organized by About Face .
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5840253-protesters-occupy-capitol-building/
2026-04-27 The Trump administration instructed DHS and immigration officers to deny green cards to anyone who protested views that didn’t align with Trump, including criticizing Israel or supporting Palestine.
2026 May
2026-05-02 Police arrested 8 protesters in New York for protesting the violent arrest of a Nigerian man.
https://www.bbc.com/pidgin/articles/c8e8w0rnn2do
2026-05-03 Bay Bridge takeover by several vehicles. At least nine people were arrested and 77 vehicles were impounded.
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/charges-filed-bay-bridge-takeover/4081559/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/bay-bridge-crackdown-traps-illegal-120800984.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFJYojZ4DMQ&list=WL&index=5
2023 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_tXMhvKvTs
2023 https://www.kcra.com/article/protesters-shut-down-bay-bridge-heading-san-francisco/45862462
2026 June
2026-06-15 In Britain four Palestine activists were sentenced as terrorists without conviction for protesting in 2024.
2026-06-24 Eight protesters received decades-long sentences and declared terrorists for demonstrating outside detention centers, with former Marine reserivst Benjaimin Song receiving a 100-year sentence for participating.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IYVyPLd17Y&list=WL&index=4&t=74s
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/6/25/prairieland_nine
2026 July
2026-07-01 Air Force Major Jason Watson was arrested at the Capitol for holding a sign up calling for the impeachment of Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnefF2SR3jo&list=WL&index=1
2026-07-02 Seven more people were arrested and given harsh sentences and convicted of terrorism for protesting the year prior. One person received a 50 year sentence.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/01/protest-shooting-texas-detention-center
2026-07-17 A Colorado prison guard shot a protester.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/17/colorado-ice-employee-arrested-shooting-protester
https://coloradonewsline.com/briefs/colorado-ice-shooting-protester/
2026-07-21 The US appeals court overturned a ruling requiring release of pro-Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/court-rules-against-perpetual-college-student-slated-for-deportation/