President Donald Trump speaks during a National Day of Prayer event in the Rose Garden of the White House, Thursday, May 2, 2019, in Washington.
The president’s comments came after Facebook this week banned Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones and other extremists, saying they violated its ban on “dangerous individuals.” The company also removed right-wing personalities Paul Nehlen, Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson and Laura Loomer, along with Jones’ site, Infowars, which often posts conspiracy theories. The latest bans apply both to Facebook’s main service and to Instagram and extend to fan pages and other related accounts.
Woods, one of Hollywood’s most outspoken conservatives, has had his Twitter account locked. Twitter spokeswoman Katie Rosborough said Woods will need to delete a tweet that violated Twitter rules before he can be reinstated.
Love Facebook
More threats from POTUS. BigBrotherIsWatching
He better watch closely he is next to be banned
Maybe if they stopped posting racist hate speech?
As President, shouldn't he be monitoring american economics, world affairs, people noticing him giving clearance jobs to family who have no knowledge of the above, etc, CLOSELY
Pathetic little man screams to deflect from guilt.
= RealFakeNews
Monitoring and watching = tweeting while on Ambien
Did he not want SNL removed?
While he is sitting on the can with his pants and boxers in a puddle around his ankles. 🙄
Republicans R' letting Trump'get away with anything'he wants 2' do'like'a king'and Dictator does! Dangerous!
All liberals - what are you going to do when they ban you? Do you not see history repeating?
Twitter, please ban Trump. Be responsible because he isn’t.
Hey realDonaldTrump - NONE YA' BUSINESS! Or do these weirdo's help you deliver your bigoted messages?
Keep those liberal commies in check Mr. President.
He is really obsessed with social media.
Says the guy who bans reporters from White House Press Conferences!
Facebook should be banning this trump first. He is by far the most extremist far right figure.
Just need him banned is all
They are extreme figures? What type of extreme? What happened to don’t watch if you dont like? Why is this modern world running crazily towards an Orwellian society where a minority will decide how the majority thinks?
The louder and more paranoid he gets just means we’re getting closer...
“extremist figures” like that’s an objective thing. This is why we despise you and don’t trust you.
James Wood, an actor who used his celebrity to help people during the California fires through Twitter, is an extremist?
Hey AP..the ban was against conservatives..why is Antifa not banned? They are extremist.
He losing it...dementia and paranoia...
Orange flag humper is pissed because those that were banned help promote what he touts. There go his spokespersons!
The NFL allowed Trump to interfere with a player protest... 'Thou shalt not kneel' protesting crimes/injustice. Now he is doing a full court press on social media platforms to rid up of undesirables. Abuse of power.
Extremists?
Oh, if only jack had the balls to do this. But he’s to busy dry humping Trump and the other nazis on Twitter.🖕🏻
He's monitoring. What a joke.
Trump will never understand that he cannot be a Dictator in this country.
How is it so many people still don’t understand the 1st ammendment? It doesn’t protect you from the consequences of your speech.
Doesn't Trump have more IMPORTANT things to do?
Facebook is anti Christian anti Jewish and anti conservative !! What the hell do you think should be done !!
_Politics Think about this, corrupt Trump is advocating for extremist groups by taking offence to them being banned from social media!! By default he’s endorsing extremism, hmm, giant WTF!
Extremist figures = Actual truth seeking journalists.
BigBrotherIsReal These bans are HurtinMyBase
Clearly they are targetting anyone who isn't a left wing nutter. Trying to silence people ahead of the elections. This is the real election meddling.
Liberal idiots it’s because of James Woods being banned, not alex Jones. Alex Jones was banned a while ago.
Should have ejected him from all social media as well.
So say long Rump
Why hasn’t he been banned?
The president who defends people like sandy hook crisis actor conspiracy theorists and other racist demagogs... maybe not a good person 🤔
He is so afraid he won’t be able to have Russia help steal the election.
Extremist? Uh huh...
We are so scared! 😮
_Politics Lmao ‘extremist’ yes of course
tRump is not the owner of social media. Don’t like how it is run, he can piss off. Putin lover.
_Politics Ban republicans.
Twitter better bake that cake! Hypocrisy is thick with this one.
Dictator wannabe
Mr trump only acts for his own advantage, friends& family ,& quiet when public's interest is mattered
Justifiably so as Jim Carey's hateful tweets go unpunished.
Liberals are loons.
DNC Just like he’s monitoring and watching North Korea closely 😂 realDonaldTrump is a joke, his weak leadership makes the GOP look like a bunch of wimps.
Probably trump : ‘there were good posts on both sides’ RESIGN.
What are you going to do, regulate them? Doesn’t seem bery Republican of you to regulate a company just for making business decision. And I believe the First Amendment only hinders public entities.
'Extremist'? By whose definition, AP?
Don't hesitate to attack the social media all of them
Trump sided with radicals and extremists should be a look at his priorities. Racist to the bone and trying to keep them as his voters. TheJusticeDept needs to investigate his ties and donors in this group.
No slant in this headline 🙄
trump blocks ppl on social media and the supreme court says he cant do that but social media can block who ever they want sounds like a double standard to me
You forgot your meds, grandpa. Go yell at the trees or something and leave us all alone.
Racist ! realDonaldTrump
Trump can suck it
They were not extreme just pro Trump
From his boxers on his presidential couch with his iPhone in hand.
Is this his business?
Said a man who might be banned if he wasn’t the “leader” of the free world...
realDonaldTrump revoke social network immunity from responsibilities for its content if they wish to curate the should be classified as publishers
monitor that
Whoop another distraction
MAGAPILL Extremist figures? You are getting caught in your own spin cycle there AP. Particularly if James Woods for example can be typified as extremest. Talk about the epitomy of fake news. Go back to the corner you dunces.
He should be banned
Maybe he should start his own social media
Only thing deranged donald is watching closely is his larger than life ego .
Extremest, really. How about we consider your organization extremest too and see if you like getting banned. We have the right to view and hear all voices, even if we don't agree with them. Let the people choose. We do not need big brother filtering what we see. This is not china
Facebook and liberals are just helping set the conditions for the foothold of Islam in this country. They really are shortsighted.
Ffs that man ...really.
Ban this new Dictator out from the White House as well as all types of social media. Those extremist figures this nut supports were all up to hatred and division. This jerk wasn't elected by the People but by the bizarre and outdated Electoral College.
marco_gervasoni Estremisti?
Yeah, the guy who wants the FCC to take SNL off the air over jokes about him.
Trump is like, 'crap, I need those guys...'
Everything in your article was a lie. None of these people are 'dangerous' or promoting hate. The anti-semitism accusation is laughable against Alex Jones, as his ex-wife is jewish. When you, as an organization, blatantly lie you do a huge disservice to all journalists.
Every day I say, “man fuck that guy!” Every single day.
Got a flunkie doing that, him and his family to busy kneeling in front of putin
So Trump is going to monitor us? What an asshole. He should be monitoring the Russians, the ones who received 29 indictments from Mueller for their sneak attack on our democracy to get Trump elected.
Lots of countries have the same level of concern Mr. Trump. They shut down the social media platforms out of concern in fact. These are authoritarian states with more than a tad of communist thinking up front. Thst what you're angling for?
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And by banning Minister Farrakhan is FB engaged in religious bigotry? Probably so. Typical commie-fascist Bravo Sierra.
People who control and manipulate social media along with the MSM are enemies of the people , totally self righteous slugs who are neither credible or legitimate people of any moral or decent character
Hurts his cheat to win strategy. Can't win on brains and charm.
MAGAPILL 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Extremists?
Monitoring closely. Watching TV.
Extremists? How many people have they beheaded or blown up.
Worried about social media You buffoon
If a platform can shut down conservative voices and let liberals say anything then they are no longer a platform but a publisher
'extremist' AHAHAHAHAHAHH-- PAUL JOSEPH WATSON ISN'T AN EXTREMIST
If only Dotard could banned
DerangedDonald
did Putin advise this
FACEBOOK ARE A BUNCH OF OUT OF CONTROL LIBERAL TRUMP HATERS
PaulJosephWatson is NOT “extremists” You would think media would call this out! You know free speech and all! 🙄 So now we are going to be like China? Everyone will talk one way or else No free thought or discussion? I don’t listen to some on the list but..free speech matters!
Who the hell cares! 👎
MAGAPILL RealJamesWoods is not extremist . Yall are going down by libel laws. Just wait
And he isn’t afraid to call you out on national TV. So twitter do tell us why you banned Big bad James Woods. Who makes these decisions?
Leave FB alone realDonaldTrump . You should be banned too! You spread hatred and defend others that do. You’re so evil!!!!!
Executive time
The Donald can be a jerk, but criticising American corporations which do not support the fundamental American ideals behind the First Amendment is not an 'attack' it is patriotic. Is AP a tool of the plutocratic Deep State?
Twitter Jack Jones stands firm with your position. Don’t be intimidated by a “blow hard.”
'Extremist' please stop with that misleading way of reporting, this kind of spreading misleading words is not acceptable anymore, get more professional . The only extremist banned was Farrakhan the rest are normal and very social conscious people expressing their opinion.
What, exactly, does this man want?
MAGAPILL Good. I really hope he does something about it because if not we are all screwed. Here in Europe as well...
Ooh. Quaking in their virtual boots. The wrath of the orange tinted fake emperor. When will mrs trump say “ enough of this. , I’m going back to New York “. ?
The only thing this blowhard is watching is his nose grows every time Pinocchio opens that orange flap
Stupid Facebook company 👎🏻
Extremist? Interesting
The only extremist on that list was Farrakhan.
Protecting the 1st Amendment!!!!
Facebook should block the rootvegetable
It's time for them to start treating the social media as the press and put regulations on them.
Everyone should be concerned about how these social media platforms define “extremists “. I’ve seen a public figure hold up a mock of a person’s severed, bloody head. She’s still on social media. It was very extreme 🤔
Technically, can't realDonaldTrump also be banned for inciting violence? That's his private, personal account. He would then have to tweet from POTUS account, which probably goes through the White House communications department and has restrictions and limitations.
Yeah right....he should be banned from Twitter
so what's that mean, another one of his threats? This man is more of a DICK-Tator every day. He really thinks he's above the law and can dictate to everyone else. DESPICABLE
So he is monitoring the habits of companies? I thought he was against socialism. Next he will want them all to sell to the government
I have never seen a president as angry as President Trump. Literally he is always fighting with someone. Must have a hard life always being so miserable. POTUS WhiteHouse Trump
He is the enemy of the people.
_Politics Only thing Donny is monitoring and watching closely is pornhub.
Monitoring what,not his call
He should just zip it. Worst president EVER.
Extremist? Media is such trash. They are the real radicals!! EnemyOfThePeople FakeNewsMedia cnnsucks
I wouldn’t call them all extremists, especially if I were a media organization purported to be objective. Maybe, “..figures who Facebook claims to be extremist..”
The majority of those removed were not extremists just conservatives
James Woods is an extremist?
“Extremist figures” lol give me a break. You mean non-liberals.
He is extremist president & think they elected or help him. He is not for soul or mind of America, which we love dearly. Back off Mr. president.
Extremist figures? Now you're showing your prejudices.
So candidate whose main activities were tweeting, playing golf, and grifting,has a presidency which consists largely of tweeting, playing golf, and grifting, plus denying constitutional rights as a hobby.
Commie Donnie was his name-o, treason was his game-o
Trump the fat crooked git sees his sources of right wing racist filth denied to his re-election campaign,,have to rely on Putins people
_Politics The first few words of the 1st amendment are, 'Congress shall make no law...' Social media isn't Congress. But then again, we are fools to assume Trump even knows how to read, let alone read the Constitution.
Freedom of speech doesn't apply to private companies. If the social media companies feel individuals violate their terms of use, they certainly can and should ban them. The orange anus can't do anything about that. He's just running his mouth as always.
Yeah monitor away, snooze. You’re not the FCC.
This just means watching Fox News and Tweeting.
He's seriously making sure the rights of his citizens are protected?! Literally shaking rn How vile can you get? 🙄
The title should be: “Trump reponds to attack’s by big media on Free Speech”
Sounds like he should start his own social media empire rather than telling a private business how to run their network. Free market capitalists can chime in at any time on this issue.
And just because they did stuff like inciting harassment and violence against the parents of murdered children!
Hey jack he’s coming for your 💰
Fortunately for him, jack supports white supremacists spreading their message via Twitter, so trump's Twitter account is safe.
How about watching that Russia does not interfere with our elections again. How about that.
He is lawless and entitled. He hates rules.
Naturally the Oathkeepers and 3%ers will be up in arms at this threat to curtail free speech, and the tea party will be livid over the threat to use regulation to enforce political correctness.
I bet this is old news tomorrow!
They are violating people constitutional rights. Why are they only banning conservatives?
Shouldn’t he be working as POTUS instead of being on Social media sites all day long? Does anyone ever monitor the amount of time Donald actually works?
Yeah because all of the extremists are his voters. BanTrump DerangedDonald
AP always doing lifting for the left. People can decide what extremists are. None of them advocated killing anyone. These few can be disagreed with, but let’s be honest, this is silencing voices FB disagrees with. That’s not freedom.
Lol
Rofl glad he has time for that
Hi America My name is Donald I’m the President and I’m a racist When you google oxymoron my picture is first to appear Also for moron How ironic
He's just paranoid Now more than ever
Yeah, he's monitoring and watching closely because, as President of the United States of America, he has nothing better to do. Except for golf. And watch Fox News so they can tell him what to do. And hamberders. And play 'find my junk'.
Paul Joesph Watson is NOT extreme. Nice try.
1stAmendment: reporters need THOROUGH access to the president and his spokespeople. NOT 1stAmendment: President dictating how private companies police their own content.
Dictator much ?
This from a guy who calls the free press an enemy of the people.
We KNOW he's monitoring Twitter...it's all he EVER does.
Doesn’t the “president” have better things to do than stalk social media sites? All he seems to do is tweet and watch TV to see who’s saying what about him. realDonaldTrump is obsessed with controlling what people say about him, like a good dictator!!
Trump is “monitoring and watching closely”? So, Trump has a SPYING on private sector corporations?
_Politics SCOOP: JoeBiden doesn't own his own name on the web. In this :28 second video, we reveal who bought the 'Joe Biden' name.
_Politics He's more upset about white supremacists losing a platform then he is about them killing people.
Oh, I see, that was a quote from President Trump. My mistake. Well, he can use all the exclamation marks he wants, it's his style. Sorry about that. I also took the time to search, and here you are, this is the AP. Okey dokey then.
Welcome to capitalism!
You either support the 1st amendment or you don’t. If you don’t, gtfo.
Good!
He acts like he’s a King. And the Attorney General does so as well.
That’s extremist figures who support him
_Politics Poor realDonaldTrump can go straight to hell.
That's funny well now we know what he does with his time
realDonaldTrump the child!
I blocked these same people quickly after reading their trash. Not sure what the big deal is, its a social media account...who cares?
realDonaldTrump does right. Censoring and silencing ANYONE is utterly despicable, Orwellian and down right corrupt. It doesn't matter what anyone's views or opinions are. Whether right, left, centre, black, white, old, young, any political persuasions, NO ONE shud be silenced
Social media played a crucial role in him getting elected. And now that they’re trying to fix those issues, he’s unhappy. Hmm.
chump called in twitter head huncho and had words with him, which resulted in him giving chump speech that incite violence the green light,
Trump’s just whining because he can’t communicate his lies through his surrogates to his base.
It's not the bans, per se, but the absence of equally applied standards.
When I get upset about wanna be dictator Trump, I picture this scene from The Great Dictator movie.
His leading apologists are banned from spreading their vileness, he is crying foul? It shows that he is in total support of their incendiary words and acts. How can the leader of a country known for democracy, be in support of fascist elements?
I wonder if it's the Bernie and AOC supporters who will be labeled the next extremists once the right side of isle has been removed. No one should cheer for this, before you know it, you're next.
🤣🤣🤣 trumpy got some real thin skin my boy 🤣🤣
You call that an attack? What happened to you? The AP used to be a bastion of wordsmiths. What's with the double exclamation marks? Is this a fake account?
Hopefully you are next.
Yeah sure DonnyT you're full of hamberders!
Unless it comes on Fox News he’s not watching shit.
Hey, AP: This man says a lot and loudly, but no substance.... If you need to fill gaps in the news, find a calving cow somewhere in the Midwest.
Who determines who extremist? Paul Watson is not extreme simply conservative.
If twitter was to ban all nazis trump would be the first one to go.
He may be next.
Presidents should be banned forever
Like ISIS
Anyone not a Marxist is considered a far right extremist these days .
Perhaps he’d be better off doing his job than dicking around on social media all day.
Yes, people who call IlhanMN an anti-Semite are extremist... is nothing more than a joke these days...
Since when did James woods become an extremist?
Extremist figures. Right. If PJW is an extremist, then about a quarter of your population are extremists. These people were banned without even giving specific examples of anything they said. Facebook is a defacto common carrier and needs to be regulated as such.
Suppression of any Civil Rights by anyone is still suppression! MAGA!TRUMP2020!😎🇺🇸
Trump? Personally? I don't believe him!
Here’s the amount of F***s I give right now about his latest temper tantrum of a 3 year old
How can he watch social media more than he is now, ie all of the time?
Once again, orange doofus stands up proudly for what's wrong.
James Woods isn't as extreme right as the AP is extreme left.
He’s not “monitoring” anything. He’s a clown. These are private companies and they can do what they want and what’s in their best business interest. Also, hate speech on privately owned outlets like these is not a right. If you think it is, you should read the terms of service.
National Idiot Declares War on Social Media. News at 11.
Trump is crying about something? justanotherday
Facebook needs to ban these individuals. They are menaces to society and provide no value to society, including economic value. These people need to be banned from many places in society anyways.
I’m sure he doesn’t see the irony in telling social media companies that HE is watching THEM.
James Woods is an extremist Louis Farrakhan is a far-right figure Words just don't mean anything anymore, do they?
Because THAT doesn’t sound like an insecure dictator at all...🙄
He is
Ban Trump
And this from the guy who wanted SNL banned from TV.
It will be so weird if he starts spending an inordinate amount of his time on social media
If they were really doing their job, Trump himself would also be banned from all social media platforms.
Trump monitors a lot of things.
He thinks he’s a king. He’s not.
'Extremist'? RealJamesWoods is extreme? Oh my.
Trump demands private companies allow crazies like Alex Jones access to their platform and threatens the government will monitor closely... Sounds like socialism
Sounds like socialism...
JAMES WOODS is now considered an extremist tells you all you need to know
Area man says he is not doing any real work, again. But he is going to be REALLY LOUD about how much work he will not be doing.
How is this man running anything
Lol he’s isn’t going to do shit
Extremists? Y'all shameless