US EditionTrump Says Broadcast Licenses Should Be Terminated if Networks Are "Almost 100% Negative" About Him
Trump said networks airing nearly all negative coverage of him should lose broadcast licenses, targeting CBS, ABC, and NBC amid ongoing criticism of late-night hosts.
- On Wednesday, President Donald Trump said networks airing overwhelmingly negative coverage should have their broadcast licenses terminated, targeting CBS, ABC and NBC in late-night rants.
- Repeated posts and attacks show Trump frequently rants at late-night television hosts and earlier this year proposed revoking licenses via Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission .
- Targeting specific hosts, Trump wrote, `Stephen Colbert, 'The Late Show' host, is a pathetic trainwreck` and celebrated Jimmy Kimmel's brief suspension.
- Officials did not immediately comment and the Federal Communications Commission issues eight-year licenses while noting broadcasters choose programming, with the First Amendment and the Communications Act barring censorship.
- Timing matters: his post arrived on Truth Social in the wee hours, minutes after criticizing Stephen Colbert and claiming `Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars.
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'Soulless': Ex-GOP speechwriter bashes Trump's late-night 'hate tweeting' session
A former GOP speechwriter bashed President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the president went on a late-night "hate tweeting" session. Late Tuesday night, Trump fired off a series of posts on Truth Social about late-night television hosts who have criticized him. For instance, he asked his more than 11.2 million followers which of the large networks has the worst late-night show, and claimed the hosts had "no talent." He also appeared to threate…
Trump hardens his attacks on the "late shows" and the big American channels, accused of anti-conservative bias. He again threatens to attack their broadcasting licenses.
Trump says "Humbug" to Colbert, threatens broadcast licenses
There goes Mr. Outrage. Donald Trump kicked off Christmas Eve with a Scooge-ian series of posts threatening the broadcast licenses of networks that run critical coverage of his administration. “If Network NEWSCASTS, and their Late Night Shows, are almost 100% Negative to President Donald J. Trump, MAGA, and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their very valuable Broadcast Licenses be terminated? I say, YES!” he posted to Truth Social in the early mo…
Donald Trump has re-critically criticised the so-called "late shows", the television-televisioned humourous emissions of which he holds predelegate is, and in general television channels, threatening again with the cancellation of licenses, reports AFP, quoted...
Donald Trump Proposes to Cancel Tv Licenses From Tv Channels that Criticize Him in the United States
Through Truth Social the president of the United States, Donald Trump, proposed to cancel the TV licenses to networks that criticize him and his management. The president was particularly critical of the presenter Stephen Colbert. “If the news of the networks and their nighttime programs are almost 100% negative for President Donald J. Trump, MAGA (Movement Make America Great Again) and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their valuable broadcasting…
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