Donald Trump thinks he can call Bill Gates to 'close up' the Internet

[Commentary] Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said the US should consider "closing up" the Internet to curb radical extremism.

Trump, a man that routinely claims everyone in charge of the US is stupid, believes that as president he could just call up Bill Gates to help him shut off the Internet. Trump floated the idea at a campaign rally at the USS Yorktown in South Carolina as a way to stop ISIS "jihadists" from recruiting Americans to commit acts of domestic terrorism. "We're losing a lot of people because of the Internet," Trump said. "We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening. We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that Internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, 'Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.' These are foolish people."