The Petulant of the United States, Donald J. Trump, was having none of it.

After he sent two tweets promoting false claims about mail-in voting, Twitter attached two warning labels to them.

One tweet said,

 “There is NO WAY (ZERO!) that Mail-In Ballots will be anything less than substantially fraudulent. Mail boxes will be robbed, ballots will be forged & even illegally printed out & fraudulently signed. The Governor of California is sending Ballots to millions of people, anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there, will get one. That will be followed up with professionals telling all of these people, many of whom have never even thought of voting before, how, and for whom, to vote. This will be a Rigged Election. No way!!”

The warning said,

“Get the facts about mail-in ballots.”

Hitting on the link brought the reader to the statement,

“On Tuesday, President Trump made a series of claims about potential voter fraud after California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an effort to expand mail-in voting in California during the COVID-19 pandemic. These claims are unsubstantiated, according to CNN, Washington Post and others. Experts say mail-in ballots are very rarely linked to voter fraud.”

In the “What to Know” section Twitter explained,

“fact-checkers say there is no evidence that mail-in ballots are linked to voter fraud” and

“Trump falsely claimed that California will send mail-in ballots to ‘anyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there.’ In fact, only registered voters will receive ballots.”

But it also acknowledged that Trump’s tweet

“is not in violation of the Twitter Rules as it does not directly try to dissuade people from voting — it does, however, contain misleading information about the voting process, specifically mail-in ballots, and we’re offering more context to the public.”

Trump immediately objected first accusing Twitter of “interfering in the 2020 Presidential Election,” because, of course, as he was doing just that he knows what interference is, and then went further tweeting,

“They are saying my statement on Mail-In Ballots, which will lead to massive corruption and fraud, is incorrect, based on fact-checking by Fake News CNN and the Amazon Washington Post.”

But in this tweet he revealed, perhaps not knowing he was doing so, that he is not that conversant on the U.S. Constitution he took an oath of office to protect by claiming,

 “Twitter is completely stifling FREE SPEECH, and I, as President, will not allow it to happen!”

Obviously, he is not aware that as a private platform of a private company and not the government, it is not bound by the first Amendment like the federal government is.

The first Amendment makes it clear that,

“Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

But he didn’t stop with that revelation.

The man who practically lives on Twitter and who has provably tweeted false information on many occasions, more than any ever in the history of the world, to use his phrase, went further and revealed something more that, perhaps, it would have been best to keep secret.

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In threatening to regulate or shutter social media companies, he tweeted, first,

“Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen,”

which seemed to imply that telling people to get facts was a violation of conservative voices that apparently are prone to lying as a matter of course, he went on to show that it was he who was interfering in the 2020 elections adding,

“Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country.”

The addition of the Twitter warning came after, as a result of Trump tweeting without evidence that Joe Scaraborough might have played a role in the death of an aide back in 2000 when he was in the House of Representatives, her widower requested that Twitter remove that hurtful tweet.

Trump later made it clear without any specificity that something big was coming when he tweeted,

“Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct. Big action to follow!”

If anyone missed the claim that having their statements checked for truth violated conservatives’ free speech, Kelly Anne Conway emphasized that point.

“The president’s saying please stop suppressing conservative voices. I thought using outlets that are decisively and proudly anti-Trump to fact-check the president was maybe the richest piece of the whole thing.”

The fact that since 2015 we have seen thousands of tweets by Trump somewhat belies his claim that they try to control his voice.

“The big action to follow” was revealed the day after this tweet storm when Trump tweeted,

 “We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that happen again.”

Trump has let it be known he would sign an executive order on social media saying Thursday

“will be a Big Day for Social Media and FAIRNESS!”

So apparently, according to Trump anyway, conservatives have the right to lie while no one has a right to point out they may be doing that.

How does that help conservatives?

Although Vice President Mike Pence and National Economic Council Chairman Larry Kudlow are among those in the White House making the argument that it will set a bad precedent if the federal government goes after private companies to penalize them for purely political reasons, Trump, not known to take advice that doesn’t praise and support him, signed the executive order Thursday afternoon saying,

“We’re here today to defend free speech from one of the greatest dangers.”

The intention of the Executive order is to start the process of potentially removing protections that tech giants have under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that says they are not liable for the content posted to their platforms, and would open them up to lawsuits.

For its own protection, twitter may have to remove most of what Trump tweets.