Free-Speech Activist Poses ‘Elevated Risk’ Because Her Last Name Is Trump

View Source | March 1, 2023 12:05 pm

Cherise Trump is used to questions about her last name. As the executive director of Speech First, a nonprofit that defends the First Amendment rights of college students, Trump has been answering them ever since she took her husband’s surname in 2017.
“People ask everyday if I’m related to the former president,” she told the Washington Free Beacon. She isn’t, as a quick Google search will reveal. In almost two years of speaking on college campuses, Trump said, she has never been protested or shouted down due to a case of mistaken identity.
But now, one liberal arts school is pressing her to purchase event insurance before setting foot on campus, citing her name as a security threat.

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