The US president has claimed that the television networks only give him \u201cbad publicity\u201d<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump has floated the idea of \u201cmaybe\u201d revoking the broadcast licenses of American television networks that provide negative coverage of him.
\nThe suggestion came a day after ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show, following what it called \u201coffensive and insensitive\u201d comments made by the comedian about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
\nKimmel claimed on his program that Trump and his supporters were trying to \u201cscore political points\u201d over Kirk\u2019s killing and compared the president\u2019s reaction to his death to \u201chow a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.\u201d
\nTrump, who was returning from the UK aboard Air Force One on Thursday, told journalists that TV networks \u201cgive me only bad publicity or press.\u201d
\n\u201cI mean, they are getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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However, the president noted that it will be up to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr to rule whether to keep the networks on air or not. So far, the FCC head has been \u201cdoing a great job,\u201d according to Trump.
\nJust hours before ABC suspended \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u2019, Carr told podcaster Benny Johnson that \u201cthese companies can find ways to take action on Kimmel or there is going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.\u201d He warned that \u201cwe can do this the easy way or the hard way.\u201d
\nTrump welcomed the move by ABC in a post on his Truth Social platform on Wednesday, suggesting that NBC’s late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers should also be \u201ccanceled.\u201d
\nTrump stressed that the late-night shows \u201chave not had a conservative on in years or something, somebody said, but when you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They are licensed. They are not allowed to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
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In his show on Tuesday, Meyers accused Trump of \u201cpursuing a crackdown on free speech,\u201d while late-night comedian Stephen Colbert, whose show on CBS will not be prolonged after May 2026, claimed that \u201cthis is blatant censorship. With an autocrat, you can\u2019t give an inch.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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