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US President Donald Trump suggested that some television networks need to be licensed, as he supported the regulator of America’s broadcast in a row to stop the host of ABC Jimmy Kimmel.

Disney’s owned network announced on Wednesday night that he was pulling a comedian “indefinitely” against the backdrop of the reaction because of his remarks about the murder of conservative influential Charlie Kirk last week.

On Monday, it seems that Kimel suggests that the suspect is a republican from Mag, although the Utah authorities said that the alleged arms is “indect left -wing ideology.”

ABC took Jimmy Kimmel live! Out of the air, after the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) threatened its actions for its remarks.

Trump talks about the question of reporters on Thursday aboard the Air Force One while returning from a state visit to the UK.

“I read somewhere that the networks were 97% against me, again, 97% negative, and yet I won and easily, all seven swing countries (in the elections last year),” the president said.

“They only give me bad publicity, press. I want to say they get a license. I think maybe their license has to be taken away.”

In his monologue on Monday, Kimmel, 57, said that the “Mag’s band” was “desperately trying to characterize this child who killed Charlie Kirk as something different from one of them” and tried to “score political points from him.”

He also likened Trump’s reaction to the death of his 31-year-old political confidant to “How a four-year-old mourns goldfish.”

After the shooting, Kimmel had also gone to Instagram to condemn the attack and send a “love” to the Kirk family.

Speaking to FOX on Thursday, FCC chairman Brandon Carr said stopping Kimmel was not “the last shoe to go down”.

“We will continue to hold these television operators responsible for the public interest,” he said.

“And if television operators do not like this simple solution, they can turn their license into FCC.”

FCC has regulatory power over major networks, such as ABC, and their independent branch owners.

But the agency has limited cable duct authority, such as FOX or MSNBC, and has no powers over podcasts or most streaming content.

Legal scientists say the first amendment to the US Constitution, which defends the freedom of expression, would prevent the FCC from legitimically canceled licenses on the basis of political disagreement.

Joe Strashulo, a late night writer who works on Jimmy Kimmel live! From 2015-21, before the BBC in Los Angeles, there is an atmosphere of fear in the writers’ room.

“It’s heartfelt to see the threat of them out of work,” he said. “I touched the base and no one knows exactly what was happening and they are working behind the scenes.”

Kimmel’s suspension was announced on Wednesday night shortly after Nexstar Media, one of the largest owners of television stations in the United States, said he would not broadcast his show “For the Observing Future”.

Nexstar called his remarks about Kirk “offensive and insensitive at a critical moment in our national political discourse.”

Car praised Nexstar – who is currently seeking FCC approval for merger with $ 6.2 billion ($ 4.5 billion) with tegna – and said she hoped other television operators would follow her management.

Sinclair, the largest ABC partner group in the United States, said it would broadcast a special remembrance program dedicated to Kirk during the original time slot for the Kimel show on Friday.

Kirk, a high -profile conservative activist and the father of two, died of a firearm wound at the neck while talking at the University of Utah Valley in Orem on September 10.

His widow Erika Kirk was appointed on Thursday as the new leader of the organization that her husband co -founded, Turning Point USA.

A 22-year-old man has been charged on Tuesday for aggravated murder, and prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty.

Writers, actors, former US President Barack Obama and other prominent Democrats have condemned Kimmel’s suspension.

Obama said the incident is a new and dangerous level of crop cancellation.

“After years of complaining about culture cancellation, the current administration brought it to a new and dangerous level, routinely threatening regulatory actions against media companies, unless the muzzle or fire reporters and commentators he dislikes,” he said at X.

Actor Ben Stiller said “it’s not right” while Hax star Jean Smart said he was “horrified by cancellation.”

“What Jimmy said is a free speech, not a hate speech,” she added.

On Thursday, the hosts of a late night on competitive networks gathered behind Kimmel.

“This is a rough censorship,” said Stephen Colbert on CBS. “You can’t give an inch with Autocrat,” he said, citing Trump, whom he often criticizes.

“Jimmy, I stand with you and your staff at 100%.”

In July, CBS announced that it would not resume the late show with Stephen Colbert for another season.

The Guild of the Writers of America and the Guild of Actors on the screen, two Hollywood trade unions, condemned the suspension of Kimmel as a violation of the constitutional rights of free speech.

But others claim that this is accountability, not the cancellation of culture.

“When a person says something that a ton of people find offensive, rude, dumb in real time, and then that person is punished for this, it has not canceled the culture,” says Dave Portnoy, who founded the media company Barstool Sports.

“This is the consequences for your actions.”

The host of the late night, Fox Greg Gutfeld, claims that Kimmel is “deliberately and misleading” blames Kirk’s murder in the “Allies and Friends” of the activist.

The British presenter Pierce Morgan said Kimmel had “lied to Charlie Kirk’s killer that he was a magician” and his comments caused “understandable outrage throughout America.”

“Why is he heralded as a martyr of free speech?” He added.

But one of the Car Car Carn FCC guide, Commissioner Anna Gomez, criticized the regulator’s position to Kimel.

She said that “an inexplicable act of political violence by a violated individual should never be used as an excuse for a brighter censorship or control.”

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