Trump Is Scared of Free Speech—Comedian Amber Ruffin Proved It
In this episode of What Was That?, I break down how Trump’s cancellation of Amber Ruffin from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner isn’t just petty—it’s part of his ongoing assault on the First Amendment and anyone who dares to mock him.
A week or so ago, subscribers to the substack account of the literary journal Nimrod (excitingly now edited by the excellent poet and translator Boris Dralyuk) received a poem from the new issue, ‘Poikilos’ by Tyson Hausdoerffer: