from the lying-liars-and-the-lies-they-tell dept Talk about pathetic. CBS has announced that the now-Larry Ellison owned network will be hosting a lavish dinner this week praising Donald Trump and his ( nonexistent ) dedication to the First Amendment. The dinner will be hosted at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, which the State Department claimed in December 2025 was being renamed “The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace.” Truly banana republic type shit. Oliver Darcy got a hold of the original invite for the dinner, and it’s everything you might expect: Trump is, as regular Techdirt readers may recall, arguably the worst president in a century when it comes to trampling press freedom, free speech, and the First Amendment . When the administration isn’t trying to destroy comedians for telling jokes about the president , it’s busy crushing whatever was left of public media in the U.S. , or threatening the broadcast licenses of networks that do basic journalism .…