Protesting in many circumstances IS illegal...so the President's wish is granted. This is the worst kind of yellow journalism, and the perfect example of why the President's use of the term "fake news" is warranted. The media has prostituted itself to the Dem party and to socialist causes in general, and has surrendered any credibility it once had as an impartial source of information to the nation. Its sad, because a Republic really cannot survive without a truly free AND objective media.
To be crystal clear, freedom of expression and leftist street protests are not synonymous...the first is essential to the Republic, the second is often little more than an excuse for hooliganism and "look at me-ism" that pervades the millenial generation and the denizens of the far Left generally. These are not the civil rights protests of the MLK era, in which peaceful marchers are assaulted by bigoted and brutal police...protests on the left these days are more often deliberately violent, deliberate focused on vandalism, and deliberately aimed at provoking police through direct assault (throwing feces, rocks and molotov cocktails at them).
What we are seeing from Leftist protestors these days, frequently, is straightforward Brown Shirt tactics...intended to shut down free speech and create chaos, havoc and injury. Confusing that with free speech and expression is a travesty.
The headline shouldn't be an out of context quote attempting to paint the president as anti-protest, but rather, it should be the Left's ongoing strategy of genuinely suppressing free speech in the public square and on campuses which is targeted...literally...at silencing political/social opinions it disagrees with.
