Holly O’Reilly tweeted a GIF at the end of May to President Trump on his @realDonaldTrump account. The image displayed an awkward-looking moment between the president and Pope Francis with the caption, “This is pretty much how the whole world sees you.”

Almost immediately, she was blocked from his account.

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Among those who think it’s a stretch is constitutional law scholar Michael W. McConnell, the director of Stanford’s Constitutional Law Center and, from 2002 to 2009, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

“The president is entitled to communicate with whoever he wants to whenever he wants to,” McConnell told The Post. “No one has the right to compel someone else to communicate with them.”

“If Trump or anyone else wants to limit his Twitter audience, he can do that,” McConnell added. “As can any other public official or any private person.”

And even in a public form, McConnell said, presidents can “go to public arenas and meet with audiences of their choice. Public forum doctrine has to do with the right of people to speak, not the right of anyone being forced to communicate with them.”