Jimmy Kimmel's show is over. Trump announces further steps

Donald Trump He suggested that the national government may remove concessions from tv stationswhich are ‘against him’.

Trump's comment appeared the day after ABC station suspended the broadcast of the program Jimmy Kimmel Live! due to a speech from the lead who linked the alleged killer of a conservative activist Charlie Kirk. with the MEGA movement supporting Trump.

Jimmy Kimmel suspended. Trump announces

– There is specified a thing as a concession. I will give an example," said Trump journalists. I read somewhere that TV stations were against me in 97 percent., 97 percent of negative accounts, and yet I won and easily, in all 7 key states," the president stated.

– They're 97 percent against me, they're just criticizing me. And they get a concession," he said. – I think possibly their concessions should be taken away. – the president pointed out that the decision in this case would be "to be owned by Brendan Carr", president of the national Communications Commission (FCC).

– I think Brendan Carr is excellent, he's a patriot. – said Trump, who appointed him to the post. – I love our country and he loves it too, and he is simply a tough man. We'll see what happens next.

This is the end of Jimmy Kimmel's show. Emergency Station Decision

Jimmy Kimmel said on his show that Trump supporters are doing their best to gain political points in Kirk's assassination. He added that The President's grief after Kirk's death is tailored to "a pity for a four-year-old after a goldfish". He besides showed a fragment of Trump's conversation with a journalist, during which erstwhile asked how he felt after killing the activist, he replied that he was very good and praised the preparations for the construction of the ballroom in the White House.

According to CNN, ABC's decision took place hours after the head of the national Communications Commission (FCC) Brendan Carr suggested in a podcast that The committee could consider withdrawing the licence to ABC local stationsIf Disney – the station owner – does not take action against Kimmel.

The storm around the cancellation of Kimmel's program was besides commented by erstwhile U.S. PresidentBarack Obama. "After years of lamentation over the culture of nullification (cancel culture), the administration raised it to a fresh and dangerous level, threatening to systematically take steps against media companies by regulators (this market) if they do not silence or release journalists and commentators they do not like," he wrote on platform X.

American media on the suspension of Kimmel's program: It's orbanism.

CNN commentator Brian Stelter believes that the decision to suspend Kimmel's program resembles the gradual takeover of the media by the Prime Minister Viktor Orban au Hungary.

Orban, utilizing the tools of the state, strengthened his political power, putting force on private media, rewarding loyal owners and punishing those who resisted.

– President Donald Trump and his allies – as it seems – carry out the same script in the US – Stelter assessed.

Former associate of the Hungarian Parliament Gabor Scheiring pointed out that both ABC's decision on Kimmel and last year's appeal by the CBS of Stephen Colbert's programme are marked by the so-called. orbanism.

– The key problem (in Hungary – ed.) was that Media owners, both home and foreign, mostly capitulated individually alternatively of taking collective resistance. This enabled Orban to systematically submit to the media – he explained.

– Orban and his people systematically hit local media, taking them or forcing them to obey. For US media owners, financial incentives are obvious: Loyalty to the Trump State pays off said Scheiring.

The suspension of Kimmel's program besides means the temporary dismissal of 1 of Trump's most celebrated critics, which, as Scheiring stressed, is a distinctive precedence for autocrat leaders.

He besides pointed out that Trump had previously publically demanded Kimmel's photograph taken from the air: "Personal attacks and defamation campaigns are regular bread of the Orban regime: demonstratively raising the cost of speaking.

David Pressman, a erstwhile American ambassador to Hungary, in an essay published in the fresh York Times journal, wrote that U.S. corporations cling to “the illusion that they can keep independency and integrity while doing business with an autocrat – just as the Hungarian elite believed that they would appear unscathed”.

"President Trump, like Orban, undoubtedly believes that anyone can be bought. American elites prove he's right” said Pressman. “I frequently heard this saying in Hungary: 'Van a pénz' – ’There will always be a price’‘.

Insecure Future of the Programme

According to CNN sources, the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" program has not been definitively cancelled, but there is no deadline for its return.

In 2022, the host admitted that he considered ending the program, but yet extended the contract. “After 2 decades in ABC, I now have 3 years of what they call “quiet quitting” – he was joking.

Source: CNN / CNBC / Reuters