Trump’s pressure on the media installation

President Donald Trump The pressure on the media company is intensified.

On Wednesday, Company Walt Disney He pulled “Jimmy Kimmel live!” Out of the air “infinitely” from the ABC network after the hosts expressed comments that associate allegedly the killer of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk To Trump’s movement, “Make America Great again.”

This step is a comparison with Cancellation of CBS “Late Show with Stephen Colbert” In July and raising questions about the protection of free speech on Trump’s era.

“We got to new minimums over the weekend with the gang, desperately trying to characterize this child who killed Charlie Kirk as something except one of them, and did his best to score the political points,” said Kimmem during a monologue that aired on Tuesday.

“There was sadness between the finger indicator. On Friday, the White House flew through the flags on the half, which received some criticism, but at the human level you see how difficult the president is taking it,” he continued, pulling up a Trump’s video on the White House lawn.

Trump asked how he was holding the death of Kirk, to which he replied, “I think it is very good” before turning to note that the construction began on a new ballroom for $ 200 million.

“He is in the fourth stage of sadness: construction,” Kimmeme joked. “Reduction. Construction. This is not how an adult mourn about the murder of the one he called a friend. It is the way 4-year sadness mourn the goldfish. Okay? And it didn’t only happen once.”

Kimmeme was not fired, but Disney Heads wanted to talk to the master about what he should say when he is returning on the air, familiar with the situation.

Trump weighed in this matter on Thursday, saying: “They had to fire him a long time ago. He was fired for lack of talents.”

Kimmeme, ABC and Disney are the last goal of control over Trump media components, which intensified during its second term marked Federal Communications Commission.

“An unforgivable act of political violence of one violated person should never be used as a broadcast of broader censorship and control,” wrote Anna Gomez, a single democratic FCC commissioner, wrote on Wednesday in social media. “This administration is increasingly using the weight of the state power to suppress the legal expression.”

Gomez was open about FCC and Trump’s interaction with media companies. At the end of July, when the state agency approved the merger Vov And from the parachute, she wrote a statement of disagreement, saying that she was worried about the recent payment Paramount Set up a suit Brought by Trump against Paramount, which belongs to CBS for “60 minutes” interviewing with the then President Vice Kamala Harris.

“Payment Paramount and this ill-advised approval have strengthened those who believe that the government may-and should turn their forces to extract financial and ideological concessions, require benefits and provide positive media lighting,” she wrote at the time.

This is not the first time that Trump interferes with the merger in the media. He tried to block AT & T’s A merger of $ 85 billion with Time Warner in 2017 when it did not sell CNN. Ultimately The deal has passed through In mid -2018.

Suspension of “Jimmy Kimmel live!” Come against the statement of the statement of the chairman of the FCC Brandan Carra, who offered the ABC broadcasting license at risk of the remarks.

In an interview with Podkosta on Wednesday, before the announcement of ABC, Carr said the FCC “would have the funds we can see” for Kimmel’s comments.

“Honestly, when you see such things, I mean that we can do it in a simple way or a difficult way,” Car. “These companies can find ways to change behaviors and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there will be extra work for the FCC.”

In August, Trump posted the truth on his social platform that ABC and NBC should lose broadcasting license for what he called “unfair coverage of Republicans and/or Conservatives.”

“Curve” journalism “should not be rewarded, it should be stopped,” Trump said.

It is noteworthy that Disney requires a regulatory approval on a transaction that would see NFL Buy 10% ESPN In exchange for NFL media.

Car said CNBC “Squirrel on the street” On Thursday what Kimmeme appeared “Mislead” the American public About the facts concerning Charlie Kirk’s murder in the days that led to the suspension of his show.

“The question that arose here where many and many people were upset was not a joke,” Kar said.

“It’s not fun,” Kar said. “It seemed directly misleading the American public about a significant fact This is probably one of the most significant political events that we have held for a long time, for the most significant political murder we have seen for a long time. “

The Show’s suspension also came after NEXSTAR MEDIA GROUP said it Stations associated with ABC In the foreseeable future, “Kimel’s show” would start from Wednesday.

NEXSTAR LOOKING FOR A FCC for Planned 6.2 billion mergers since Tagno. About 10% of the approximately 225 ABC affiliate stations belong to Nexstar. Tegna owns about 5% ABC affiliate stations.

Syncler. owned by about 40 ABC affiliate stationsAlso endlessly involved “Jimmy Kimmel live!” It states that this will not lead to this suspension until it conducted an official discussion with the ABC about “commitment to the network to professionalism and accountability” and did not urge Kimel to give direct forgiveness of the Kirk family.

Syncler – said in August This is a study of the merger options for its broadcasts, although the transaction has not yet reached.

In December 2024, a lawsuit against ABC News was settled in which the network agreed to pay 15 million dollars Before Trump’s presidential library, after Trump claimed that the presenter George Stefanapulos made an inaccurate assertion on the air that the then elected president was recognized as civil liability for the rape E. Jean Carol. Trump was recognized as responsible for sexual attacks and slander Carol.

Trump is currently sued for The New York Times for articles and a book published during the 2024 campaign and The Wall Street Journal for a story that linked it to Jeffrey Epstein.

In addition, Trump has banned specific journalists and whole information organizations from the united press media for the use of predominant terminology or for criticism to Trump.

Currently, Associated Press is limited to access to the White House, such as the oval office and the Air Force because it would not have taken the renovation of the Gulf of Mexico to the Bay of America. And former CNN reporter Jim Acosta was developed in 2018 after a collision with Trump. The ban was later abolished.

– Alex Sherman, Luke Fountain and Dan Mangan have contributed to this report.

Disclosure: Comcast – a parent company NBCuniversal owned by CNBC. Versant will become a new CNBC maternal company on the planned Spinof Versant Comcast.