I think the problem rests in placing any importance whatsoever on "how a person chooses to take it" with no objective standard.

So we are supposed to arrange society and our lives around how the most sensitive, self-important, faux-egalitarian choose to hear something? That is what is hogwash. The university in the hump case may be legally OK to stop the event, but encouraging that type of behavior is unhealthy.

And more importantly, it is an intellectual breeding ground for weak minded people who have no sense of reality.

Though I would certainly agree as well that Trump should expect and receive public backlash for his actions. Just as we should all have freedom to express, that includes freedom to express disdain and condemnation.

But official and institutional backlash for simply having a political or social opinion that does not conform to PC hivemind has been a growing problem on campuses for almost 2 decades. Continuing to abet this type of behavior will have disastrous consequences.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)