Many of these retired 4-Stars don’t really know anything about the Constitution they (hopefully) supported and defended for 40 years. They lived under UCMJ and they don’t know what it is to be a regular citizen.
The irony about statements from people like him claiming that Trump is circumventing the first amendment is that in reality Trump became POTUS precisely because millions and millions of people were having their first amendment rights, and their rights to equal representation in government suppressed and trounced on by wealthy media magnates with an agenda - along with the same Hollywood elite now being outed as sexual aggressors and perverts. What average citizen had the ability to compete with their monopoly of the airwaves, print media, and entertainment industry? Trump is giving back voice to those who have had theirs taken from them. This guy has no idea what the first amendment really represents.