Zolan Kanno-Youngs, a White House correspondent for The New York Times, describes how the Trump administration’s pressuring of ABC to take action against Jimmy Kimmel is part of a broader crackdown by the administration since the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
The president’s suggestion that broadcasters should lose their licenses because of criticism of him indicated that his assault on critics’ language is driven in part by personal animus.
President Trump and Melania Trump boarding Air Force One and departing London on Thursday. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away,” the president said of broadcast networks.