Leave Trump on Twitter, but keep the fire extinguishers handy

 In the wake of Donald ‘Loose-Lips, Tweet from the Hip’ Trump’s most recent 140-character rants, there was buzz encouraging Twitter to suspend his account. Wisely, the company refused to do so. Now, anyone who has read my musings knows that I’m no fan of our 45^th president, but, I am strongly against trying to stifle him on Twitter, or any other communications platform, for the same reason I condemn the White House’s attempt to block publication of Michael Wolff’s book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House; it would be a blatant violation of the Constitutional provision of freedom of speech.

As a nation of laws; a condition that Trump seems hellbent on changing, by the way; we must learn to endure communications that we disagree with, or vehemently dislike, in order to protect all speech. So, we must continue to allow Trump to get up in the wee hours of the morning and fire off his ‘Rocket Man’ and ‘I’m a stable genius’ missives, and hope that he doesn’t inadvertently start a nuclear war in the process.

There’s another reason that we should not try to block this, despite the danger it causes. At some point, and that point is probably a way in the future, he will have to answer for his actions, and there will be no better evidence of his state of mind, intentions, and actions, than his own words. So, rather than trying to muzzle him—as desirable as that might be—we should preserve his every tweet, his every recorded word. One day, they just might be the key exhibits in the prosecution’s case. And, if not that, they will certainly be a treasure trove of background material for historical researchers.