HYPOCRISY EXPLOSION: Trump Signs Anti-Porn Pledge

From the Daily Beast:

A day after his team praised the nude photos of his wife that the New York Post published, Donald Trump promised to be tough on internet pornography. The mogul signed a document called the Children’s Internet Safety Presidential Pledge, bemoaning “unfettered internet access by youth.”

In signing the pledge, Trump also promised to “give serious consideration to appointing a Presidential Commission to examine the harmful public health impact of Internet pornography on youth, families and the American culture and the prevention of the sexual exploitation of children in the digital age.”

The pledge was created by a group called Enough is Enough. Its site says it focuses on “raising public awareness about the dangers of Internet pornography,” as well as sexual predators who target children.

Trump’s newfound tough-on-porn stance is, well, interesting. The candidate posed on the cover of the March 1990 issue of Playboy, and has it framed in his Manhattan office. That was long before Playboy stopped running pictures naked women, and the issue he appears in depicts lots of vaginas.

A representative for Trump’s Chicago hotel said it provides adult content on pay-per-view channels. A spokesperson for the Trump hotel New York headquarters didn’t respond to a request for comment on whether sexually explicit content is available at other hotels.

The pledge, which Trump reportedly signed on July 16th, begins:

Whereas, The First Amendment is a foundational cornerstone of the Constitution. Not all written or visual material, however, is protected under the First Amendment. The United States Supreme Court has ruled there are four categories of pornography that are not entitled to full First Amendment protection, and which can be restricted or proscribed altogether. With respect to the Internet, those categories include the obscenity and child pornography laws.

The bulk of the pledge regards human trafficking and child predators, but it’s no coincidence that Trump signed during the same week that the GOP platform officially called porn “a national health crisis.”