Trump says that television networks “against” may “perhaps” lose a license

US President Donald Trump suggested that some television networks should have their “removed” licenses, while he supported the American broadcast regulator on the suspension of host Abc Jimmy Kimmel.

The network belonging to Disney announced on Wednesday evening that he withdrew the air actor “indefinitely” in the middle of a reaction on his remarks on the murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk last week.

Kimmel suggested that the suspect was a Magima Republican on Monday, although the Utah authorities said that the alleged shooter was “indoctrinated by left -wing ideology”.

ABC took Jimmy Kimmel live! Out of the air after the Federal Commission Commission (FCC) threatened the action for its remarks.

Trump spoke of the question to journalists on Thursday on board the Air Force One while returning from a state visit to the United Kingdom.

“I read somewhere that the networks were 97% against me, once again, 97% negative, and yet I won and easily, the seven swing states (in last year’s elections),” said the president.

“They only give me a bad advertisement, the press. I mean, they get a license. I think that perhaps their license should be removed.”

In his monologue on Monday, Kimmel, 57, said that the “Gang Maga” desperately tried to characterize this kid who had murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them “and trying to” score political points “.

He also complicated Trump’s reaction to the death of his 31 -year -old political confidant to “how a four -year -old child cries a goldfish”.

After the shooting, Kimmel had also gone to Instagram to condemn the attack and send “love” to the Kirk family.

Addressing Fox Thursday, the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, said that Kimmel’s suspension was not “the last shoe to die for”.

“We will continue to keep these disseminors responsible for the public interest,” he said.

“And if the diffusers do not like this simple solution, they can transform their license into FCC.”

Kimmel’s suspension was announced on Wednesday evening shortly after Nexstar Media, one of the largest owners of television channels in the United States, said that it would not broadcast its program “in the foreseeable future”.

Nexstar called his remarks on Kirk “offensive and insensitive to a critical moment in our national political discourse”.

Carr has rented Nexstar – which currently requests FCC approval for a merger of $ 6.2 billion (4.5 billion pounds sterling) with Tegna – and said that he hoped that other broadcasters would follow his example.

Sinclair, the largest ABC affiliation group in the United States, said it would broadcast a special memory program dedicated to Kirk during the original time slot of Kimmel’s Show on Friday.

Kirk, a high -level conservative activist and father of two children, died of a single ball injury on the neck while speaking at the University of Utah Valley in Orem on September 10.

His widow, Erika Kirk, was appointed Thursday as the new leader of the organization that her husband co -founded, Turning Point USA.

Tyler Robinson, 22, was accused of aggravated murder on Tuesday, prosecutors saying that they would ask for the death penalty.

Writers, actors, former American president Barack Obama and other eminent democrats condemned Kimmel’s suspension.

Obama said the incident represented a new and dangerous level of cancellation culture.

“After years complaining about the cancellation of culture, the current administration has brought it back to a new and dangerous level by regularly threatening regulatory measures against media companies unless they muzzle or journalists and commentators do not like it,” he posted on X.

Actor Ben Stiller said it was not fair, “while the hack star Jean Smart said she was” horrified by cancellation “.

“What Jimmy said was freedom of expression, not hatred speech,” she added.

The Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild (WGA), two Hollywood unions, condemned the decision to violate the rights to constitutional freedom of expression.

But others argued that Kimmel’s suspension was responsibility, not to cancel the culture.

“When a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, stupid in real time, then this person is punished for that which is not canceled the culture,” said Dave Portnoy, who founded the media company Barstool Sports.

“These are consequences for your actions.”

The end of the evening host Greg Gutfeld argued that Kimmel had “deliberately and badly limited” the murder of Kirk on the “allies and friends” of the activist.

British presenter Piers Morgan said Kimmel had “lied about Charlie Kirk’s assassin to Maga” and that his comments caused “understandable indignation throughout America”.

“Why is it announced as a kind of martyr of freedom of expression?” He added.

But one of the colleagues of management of the FCC de Carr, Commissioner Anna Gomez, criticized the position of the regulator on Kimmel.

She said that “an inexcusable act of political violence by a disturbed individual should never be exploited as justification of censorship or wider control”.

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