Trump suggests withdrawing TV licenses after Jimmy Kimmel’s comment

president Donald Trump On Thursday, the federal government may cancel the licenses of broadcasting television networks “against”.

Trump’s comment came a day after ABC’s comment “”Jimmy Kimmel Live! “Show because of the comments that made its host connect the alleged killer of the conservative activist Charlie Kerk To the Maga Trump.

Federal Communications Committee president Brendan Car Earlier on Wednesday, it hinted that the ABC’s broadcast license – a subsidiary of Disney He was in danger if he did not “take action on a kimmeel.”

Speaking on Thursday to journalists on the first air force, Trump said, “I have read a place where the networks were 97 % against me again, 97 % negative, however easily and easily won all the seven swinging states,” referring to his victory in the elections for the year 2024.

“They only give me bad advertising, the press. I mean, they are getting a license,” Trump said, according to the sound from one of the press sides presented by the White House.

“I think they may be taken their license,” Trump said.

The president said the decision “will be up to Brendan Car.”

Trump specifically referred to the criticisms he obtained from the Kimmel and CBS host at the late night Stephen Colbert.

“See, this is something to talk about to license too,” Trump said.

“When you have a network and have evening offers, and all they do is hitting Trump,” he said. “That’s all they do. If I go back, I think they had no conservative in years or something like that.”

“But when you return, he take a look, all they do is hitting Trump. They are licensed. They are not allowed. It is an arm of the Democratic Party,” he said.

On Thursday, Car told “Squawk on the Street” to CNBC that “we have not yet done” with changes in the “Media Environmental System” that are the consequences of Trump’s election.

“I think Brendan Car is great, he is my homeland,” Trump, who nominated Car to his position.

“He loves our country, and he is a difficult man. So we will have to see him.”

Network television stations, including ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, should receive a license from the FBC to work because its content is transmitted to the air, and it is technically free for viewers as long as they have an antenna.

This contradicts the cable TV networks, whose subscribers pay the distributors to watch.

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