Trump Says Conservative Speech Narrative Overblown; Moderator Agrees After Saying It Was A Problem

“What advice do you have for young patriot conservatives that are being ridiculed and those clamping down on free speech?” Kirk asked Trump.

“We have campuses where you have a vast majority of people that are perhaps like many people in the room,” POTUS declared. “You call it conservative, you call it whatever you want, but there are people that want free speech.”

He added, “If you look at what is going on with free speech, the super-left, with Antifa, with all of these characters. They get a lot of publicity. You go to the real campuses and you go all over the country, you go out to the Middle West, go out to the coast in many cases, we have a tremendous support. I’d say we have majority support. It’s highly overblown. Highly overblown.”

(There’s no typo there — the president, in fact, said “the Middle West.”)

Kirk, who had just claimed that it was difficult for young people “to espouse support” for Trump, went on to say “I totally agree.”

“We see it on the ground,” he stated. “People say ‘Hey, I’m a Trump supporter.'”