Trump demands ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel after White House Correspondents' Dinner joke
President Trump publicly called for Kimmel to be fired over a roast remark; petitions and network scrutiny followed.
The FCC is now threatening ABC's broadcast licenses, days after Donald Trump and Melania Trump demanded they fire Jimmy Kimmel. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Mr. President: Read the Constitution. Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for good reason.
thyroid-2303.bsky.social13ABC you better not cave
Michelle Ringler11Yeah, going after networks over jokes isn’t exactly a great look for ‘free speech.
cremationladyfl.bsky.social7Oh for heavens sake. What a bunch of thin skinned people. Goodness, the crap and vitriol that Obama put up w every single day was significantly worse. Do NOT pull their license FCC. WTF!!!
klt1957.bsky.social6The last time ABC and Disney tried to "control" Kimmel and his monologues it backfired and Disney lost a good portion of their customers. ABC has also already paid the Trumps 15M. Two choices: Fire him and see what happens. It won't be pretty. Or read the 1st Amendment again and get over it.
America Will Survive This 🙏5He is using the justice system for his personal petty revenge on people. There must be a way Congress can stop him.
Kate Sometimes3Senator, I think you ask a bit much of Dear Leader. Do you really suppose he CAN read?
LaurieKafka3If they cave, we will all retaliate by not watching them. That’s easy! They mostly respond to their bottom line, $$$. So we will see about this.
The ManFromtheBalcony3Come on Bernie the 🍊 🤡 can barely read the McDonald’s menu! It’s why he orders the same thing over and over! And by what acts has the 🤡 demonstrated he gives one 💩 about what’s in the constitution ?
Tony Serrata 🇺🇦3HE CAN'T READ! HE'S AN ILLITERATE MORON AND FASCIST
CBTbiscuit2They cant do this so easily, or at all despite the threats. If they would they would have already, any court would overturn a pulled license. Disney needs to ignore this or else face another massive loss from subscribers ditching as they did last time
reluctantsocial.bsky.social2He only read Project 2025
joe-jacobs.bsky.social2I don’t think that Donald Trump knows how to read
Today Trump had his FCC seek to strip ABC's license if they don't fire Jimmy Kimmel over his joke mocking Trump and had his DOJ indict James Comey over a picture of seashells he posted in May 2025 mocking Trump. The GOP is 100% on board with this. Our freedoms are on the ballot this November!
RobsMuir 🐀 [insert √ here]7Meanwhile, the Epstein Files remain behind lock-and-key after nearly five months since the government's demand for release. Release and seek justice for the abused!
Letitia5That’s bullshit. It’s okay if Trump name calls people dirty names all the time, post the Obama’s as Apes, says he glad Robert Mueller is dead, and I can go on and on. Point in fact he’s supposed to be The President and act with some dignity and class. Jimmy Kimmel is a comedian and host of a show
PFCindependentRDH5And he just joked about the same thing during the King's visit. Hypocrite!!
Gloria Thompson5If stupid had a face it would be America...
Alice whatever2Not just this November but now!
philncny.bsky.social2Our freedoms are in imminent danger NOW! Voting in November to protect our freedoms will just be a small effort to reign in this out of control administration. Congress needs to stand up and start the protection now, not after November.
Schrödinger’s Nerd2ABC as a network is not licensed. The individual TV stations are licensed. There are only 9 TV stations that are owned by ABC/Disney. All of the remaining ABC stations are affiliates. So they would be punishing the affiliates along with ABC/Disney.
Trunk Monkey2Is it Crazy that Trump never mentioned Ball Room before hearing that LBJ trousers story and it never occurred to him what that ment because he hadn’t seen LBJ in a locker room.
JJ2Oh, so republicans and their leader can just continue destroying this country? Jimmy Kimmel live is an entertainment show like Fox News, remember. And Fox News has no problem spewing their garbage out to the world. And Fox News was doing it a lot longer. Manipulation of or rights are not popular..
WH communications director, Steven Cheung, a fountain of toxic sputum, said "ABC must fire Jimmy Kimmel to be shunned for the rest of his life!" as a "shit human being!" although nothing Kimmel has said measures up to the venom Trump aims at his perceived enemies constantly.
Eileen Popp.🇺🇦🌻🎹📻📽🎠🎭🐧🐇4Don,Steven Cheung is an embarrassment, big bully!!
observerbs.bsky.social2Indeed. Plus ofc Kimmel is a comedian and Trump, uhh, has a different kind of job.
ReaderTabitha2Cant blame Kimmel talking about Melania salivating to become a widow
Tom Thumb2"Shit human being." We must be the envy of the world.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/b... #PB #USD. Trump Regime’s FCC is determined to end free speech in America. Due to a joke the snowflake Trump family did not like FCC Censor In Chief Brandon Carr is once again threatening ABC unless they fire Jimmy Kimmel for doing his job. Fuck Fascist FCC and Carr.
Barbara Rybolt 🐸8#StandWithJimmy Don’t forget you can #CancelDisney if you want to remind ABC/Disney what happened last time!
AgentJoeMcJoe™4Didn't the turd-in-chief order CBS to fire Jimmy Kimmel who works at ABC? Seriously? ABC.. Jimmy Kimmels show is the only show on ABC anyone watches, so if he's fired (again) who'll watch ABC? Absolutely no one. But Mr. ThinSkin, Donny J. Trumpy can't handle a joke. Or seashells.
