President Trump on Thursday signed the Executive Order to Improve Transparency and Promote Free Speech in Higher Education, criticizing American universities for being “increasingly hostile” to First Amendment protections.

“In America, the very heart of the university’s mission is preparing students for life in a free society,” the president said, while speaking at a White House ceremony. “But even as universities have received billions and billions of dollars from taxpayers, many have become increasingly hostile to free speech and to the First Amendment. You see it all the time. You turn on the news, and you see things that are horrible.”