In 2016, a student editor said that an opinion column critical of then-presidential candidate Donald Trump was censored by Falwell. The column was written after lewd comments made by Trump on an "Access Hollywood" tape were made public. Other articles in the student newspaper which mentioned Trump were reportedly spiked by faculty members. In 2018, two student editors were fired for reportedly running articles that reflected negatively on Trump; one of the student editors lost a $3,000-a-semester scholarship. In 2019, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ranked Liberty University as among the worst universities in terms of free speech, citing the censorship at the student newspaper.