President Trump is escalating his attacks on press freedom and the First Amendment. On Friday, he said it should be illegal for journalists to give his administration negative coverage.

President Donald Trump: “They’ll take a great story, and they’ll make it bad. See, I think that’s really illegal, personally.”

Trump’s comments come just days after ABC, which is owned by Disney, indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s program following FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr’s threats to revoke the broadcast licenses of ABC affiliates. On Friday, a group of writers and actors rallied outside the Disney offices in Manhattan to defend free speech.

Sue Berch: “It’s important for us to stand up together and to fight against censorship. The First Amendment says that the government does not have the right to come in and tell me what I can and cannot write and perform and so on. And this is putting — this is the government putting its thumb on the scale.”