Showing posts with label Trump attacks on free press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trump attacks on free press. Show all posts

Monday, September 22, 2025

John Oliver Wants Disney CEO to Tell Trump ‘Four Key Words’; The Daily Beast, September 22, 2025


"John Oliver made a direct plea to Disney’s CEO to stand up to Donald Trump with “four key words” in the wake of ABC’s indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Oliver used his Last Week Tonight monologue on Sunday night to encourage viewers to cancel their Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions. He blasted the “laughably weak” reason for pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air on Wednesday, after Kimmel had enraged MAGAworld and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr with his monologue about their reaction to Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week.

“At some point, you’re going to have to draw a line,” Oliver said directly to Iger. “So I’d argue, why not draw it right here? And when they come to you with stupid, ridiculous demands, picking fights that you know you could win in court, instead of rolling over, why not stand up and use four key words they don’t tend to teach you in business school. Not ‘OK, you’re the boss,’ not ‘Whatever you say goes,’ but instead, the only phrase that can only genuinely make a weak bully go away, and that is ‘F--- you! Make me!’”"

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from Trump’s FCC chair; CNN, September 17, 2025


"Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.

“Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,” an ABC spokesperson said, declining to share any further details.

A representative for Kimmel did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The stunning decision came just a few hours after the Trump administration official responsible for licensing ABC’s local stations publicly pressured the company to punish Kimmel."