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https://www.axios.com/2025/09/18/trump-maga-media-cnn-cbs-ellison-tiktok
Seems ABC, FCC chair Brendan Carr and The Orange Menace can’t take a joke, so ABC gives comedian Jimmy Kimmel the hook!
In an authoritarian setup, humour isn’t free play; it’s policed. What you’re allowed to laugh at is decided by authority. Jokes become loyalty tests.
Driving the news: ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel off air “indefinitely” on Wednesday in response to the late-night host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
The extraordinary move came after Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr warned ABC that it could face fines or license revocations if it did not “operate in the public interest.”
Trump celebrated Kimmel’s removal — just as he did CBS’s decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s show — and called for NBC to take action against remaining late-night hosts Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon.
America drowning…is not a joke!