FCC orders Disney to seek early license renewals after Trump targets Jimmy Kimmel
The Federal Communications Commission directed Walt Disney Co. to file early license renewal applications for its ABC television stations in eight cities, citing an ongoing investigation, and the order arrived a day after President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump urged ABC to fire late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. ABC says it will stick by Jimmy Kimmel Live! after Kimmel's "expectant widow" joke about Melania Trump drew criticism. The expedited filings trigger earlier FCC review of the stations' licenses and raise concerns about political pressure influencing broadcast licensing and local station operations.
Must be a total coincidence that the FCC launched this probe right after Jimmy Kimmel told another joke Trump didn't like. The FCC can try to dress this up however they want, but this is just another flagrant attempt to silence Trump critics & stifle free speech. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Peter Vandenberg17Trump's MAGA kingdom is beginning to bear a striking resemblance to Putin's regime. 🤮🤮🤮
thackwallop.bsky.social15You guys need to watch British TV, they can be brutal about politicians. I thought that America was the land of free speech. Turns out it was the UK and Europe all along despite what JD Dunce tells you.
theantisnowflake.bsky.social9All ABC has to do is what Trump's monkeys do all the time -- ignore the orders. Let them sue.
Debbie 🌹6And they have the audacity to criticise UK about free speech which we do have
Sunshine 💚 Jeep Girl6It’s called the first amendment, if any harm comes to Jimmy and anyway ABC and Disney and the FCC will have to answer to the people. If ABC or Disney do not have a backbone to fight an easy fight for the first amendment rights of themselves, and for the people, then they should not be in business.
Brendan Parry Kaufmann5Don't you people have a "First Amendment" guaranteeing freedom of speech, in that Constitution of yours that you're always banging on about?
Kris Koles5Trump hates Freedom of Speech...the right of citizens to criticize Trump and his chaotic, incompetent, corrupt government.
Hairball5And how is America a free country? This is what fucking dictatorships do.
R8D8ION4Brendan Carr is the type of guy who shows up at the emergency room and tries to bullshit his way through how a phallic-shaped household item got stuck in his anus.
George Amberson4If only there were a system to check them and balance their power.
Nonya Bidniss3It's called fascism. Mussolini and Hitler did it, now the Republican Party is doing it. They're not "colleagues," if Dems could figure that out. They're possessing the body of a dead political party to give themselves standing to dominate and abuse the people, and trample the Constitution.
just822.bsky.social3It wasn't the arson of 1933, (Reichstag fire) but the immediate pivot from a security breach to a demand for an underground bunker rhymed with the swiftness of a dictator’s ascent.
Silenced Majority2This, the uptick in raids in Minneapolis, Merz and Comey’s indictment… I can smell the panic from here.
Paul 💙💙🦋🦋2It doesn't take much to get under that thin 🍊 skin! Apparently, Mrs. Convicted felon can't take a joke either! I find myself wondering constantly, how do you go through life with no sense of humor whatsoever?? 🤔🤔
The FCC is now threatening ABC's broadcast licenses, days after Donald Trump and Melania Trump demanded they fire Jimmy Kimmel. This is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Mr. President: Read the Constitution. Freedom of speech is the First Amendment for good reason.
thyroid-2303.bsky.social12ABC you better not cave
Michelle Ringler10Yeah, going after networks over jokes isn’t exactly a great look for ‘free speech.
cremationladyfl.bsky.social6Oh for heavens sake. What a bunch of thin skinned people. Goodness, the crap and vitriol that Obama put up w every single day was significantly worse. Do NOT pull their license FCC. WTF!!!
klt1957.bsky.social6The last time ABC and Disney tried to "control" Kimmel and his monologues it backfired and Disney lost a good portion of their customers. ABC has also already paid the Trumps 15M. Two choices: Fire him and see what happens. It won't be pretty. Or read the 1st Amendment again and get over it.
America Will Survive This 🙏4He is using the justice system for his personal petty revenge on people. There must be a way Congress can stop him.
LaurieKafka3If they cave, we will all retaliate by not watching them. That’s easy! They mostly respond to their bottom line, $$$. So we will see about this.
Tony Serrata 🇺🇦3HE CAN'T READ! HE'S AN ILLITERATE MORON AND FASCIST
CBTbiscuit2They cant do this so easily, or at all despite the threats. If they would they would have already, any court would overturn a pulled license. Disney needs to ignore this or else face another massive loss from subscribers ditching as they did last time
reluctantsocial.bsky.social2He only read Project 2025
Kate Sometimes2Senator, I think you ask a bit much of Dear Leader. Do you really suppose he CAN read?
joe-jacobs.bsky.social2I don’t think that Donald Trump knows how to read
The ManFromtheBalcony2Come on Bernie the 🍊 🤡 can barely read the McDonald’s menu! It’s why he orders the same thing over and over! And by what acts has the 🤡 demonstrated he gives one 💩 about what’s in the constitution ?
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cwhalen54.bsky.social21Are they going to indict Bezos also? Amazon has pages and pages of 8647 merchandise.
Darbz20What a joke. In the Obama years you could buy range targets of him for crying out loud.
rbus39337410.bsky.social13The one thing everyone must realize lest you let them get away with it is that everything they come up with is to distract from the Epstein files; therefore, you want to associate their distraction for the day with Epstein incorporated into your post.
skirtgrl.bsky.social13The Seashell Conspiracy. We are such a dumb country,
riversofsound.bsky.social10Someone explain to me that this wasn't a threat against the then-VP. Trump's crowd was chanting "Hang Mike Pence" and built this: (Photo from NYT) I know they're not scary sea shells, but seems very bad to me.
Deirdre [REDACTED]9The thing about James Comey is that love him or hate him - he’s got a successful track record as a lawyer & he’ll run circles around the bottom of the barrel DOJ lawyers - bc that’s all that’s left.
Trust Science 📎7Scary Seashells Scatter Sycophants Say it fast
vl2024.bsky.social6They are reaching the end of their ropes
BGNurse5What’s amazing is that if not for the Comey letter about Hillary she would have been the President!
BlueShifting5Protecting speech under the first amendment has become a shell game!
CA-NC-GA Lady5Are they really come for all of us?? This is my car!
7r-ick.bsky.social5And as for Trump: his refusal to mitigate coronavirus, which led to the deaths of over 1 mil Americans, his cuts in USAID, which has led to the deaths of nearly 1 mil Africans, his bombing of an Iranian girls school, citizen Pretti - dead, citizen Good - dead and still, Trump remains a free man.
jayjohns69.bsky.social5DOJ will lose this case Lots of people get 86 from bars Being 86 doesn't mean the bouncer takes you outside & murders them Jesus fucking Christ these people have lost their minds to waste government tax dollars on a failed case like this
David Reeves aka Photoline4Video of clams plotting the overthrow of the USA.
spunkyoldlady.bsky.social4I don't see anything wrong with it, I thought 86 meant throw away or get rid of which in my thinking means impeach, arrest, confine or 25th amendment or vote in replacement. No violence at all.
librahf.bsky.social3This is absurd, a very sick man wants this done, and some sick men are going to do it….This is why we are becoming a third world country……….i would like a day when I didn’t have to hear Trumps voice, see his picture, or even hear his name spoken…....he is all over the place like a nightmare….
Survive America: 20262"86" has always been a shorthand term for simply getting rid of somebody, it was never intended to be a death threat. This is another tax-payer funded frivolous lawsuit to distract from the President's sex crimes with children.
Between pretending Jimmy Kimmel's monologues and James Comey's Instagram posts are literal threats of violence and feigning ignorance about what people mean by the "no kings" protests, I'm getting pretty sick of this dumb fantasy world Republicans are trying to will into existence.
Norumbega Jay29I used to think they were just being deliberately obtuse. But I think a lot of them actually don't know how to think critically at, like, any level.
MFSTEVE19Hypocrite Democrats who attend No Kings protests say "King me" during game of checkers??
The Spaceshipper 🚀8It's really a show for just a few people.
Katherine 🪴3I would love it if Trump had as much power as Charles has in the UK, tbh.
Progress or Backwards2I find that they never are busy touting their "wins" on the economy, egg prices, immigration, Obama did more, foreign trade, gave global market share to BRIC, etc. and seem solely focused on just playground bully tactics with the Democratic politicians. His oligarchy owned media plays along.
Down the Spiral2This is just fucking sad
🐧 Sam Duvall 🐧2Jay Gatling in the 4th photo is so close to getting it. King Charles is an *actual* king, appointed by his government. Trump is not a king, but acts like one. Hope that helps, Jay.
FREEBROOKLYN❌👑2They are so eager to willfully misunderstand things! Hard to imagine the high that gives them doesn’t feel thin and hollow and fragile.
drf5n.bsky.social2The visiting king on the checks and balances that No Kings is all about: "[...the] Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances." www.nationalworld.com/royals/king-...
Mike Kozak🎷🇨🇦🌈2These shitheads are either fucking stupid or maliciously disingenuous. Fascists either way. Besides, shame on King Charles for even making the trip.
BREAKING: The FCC is about to challenge Disney's licenses for its eight ABC stations. The Trump administration has been going after Jimmy Kimmel, again. And now the FCC, stacked with Trump allies, is going after Disney — Kimmel's ultimate employer.
More Perfect Union172Anna Gomez, a Democratic FCC commissioner, said on Tuesday that the reviews are unlawful. "This is unprecedented, unlawful, and going nowhere. This political stunt won't stick," Gomez said. "Companies should challenge it head-on. The First Amendment is on their side."
Paul Hikari16Remember the last time the Trump tried to go after broadcast licenses? Or how about the last time they tried to take Kimmel off the air? Spoiler alert: they lost both times.
Krayon Prince9I should live so long as to want to taunt Disney's legal department.
𝙋𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙩5#Disney is on the #BDS list. #BoycottDisney
IntrovertWithCoffee5This administration has incredibly thin skin and can't take a joke. In other words, conform to the MAGA agenda or be silenced.
windupminfilia.bsky.social4Eather way it's a loss of money for everyone involved
BiggBirdman3Again this is just the dumbest timeline 🤦♂️
Ody3Disney should sue the living fuck out of both the FCC and Brendan Carr personally.
The FCC is once again undermining our free speech rights by targeting ABC just a day after President Trump complained about what Jimmy Kimmel had to say. Let us be clear: The president doesn't get to decide what’s said on TV.
endfoxlies.bsky.social3The FCC should be restructured in 2027 and leaders who show bias prosecuted for misconduct in public office.
OSINTRadar3👑 “TWO KINGS” — White House admits Trump’s title The White House is now openly admitting Demented Don’s egomaniac ambitions, posting a picture of him with King Charles with the caption “TWO KINGS.” “I’m not a king,” Trump said just yesterday. ✅️Follow us : @osintradar.bsky.social
Sebo 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺2Can someone sue them? Public ?
The FCC is trying to get Jimmy Kimmel fired (again).
DGM9Multi-layer green screen Oval Office is 👌🏻
David Kuhne8Brendan Carr is 47 years old? Ten years younger than Paul Rudd?
TheWotch4I just am am continually baffled at how these idiots got into power *again*. I don't think I'll ever fully comprehend it. ...god, he's been making our lives worse for over a decade at this point...
Jen2Guess the pentagon had a bring your kid to work day too.
Lillie2Okay, I had missed the Kid Rock at the Pentagon detail. Wow.
Orcish Law2"Really?" Same vibes. Perfect execution.
Disney is standing by Jimmy Kimmel and sees this as a First Amendment fight that's worth having. But it might be a long procedural fight with the FCC...
Adam Vann11It's not a "controversy," it's an easy call from basically every perspective. I'm sorry your bosses are pathetic cowards but that doesn't mean you can assume everyone else will be too
Mitch Solomon7Disney will fight like it’s goddamned Anzio. You may as well make a meme with the new CEO baring his knife-carrying teeth wearing a Che Guevara bandana.
mrmilesweaver.bsky.social6No, it won't. Any court in the country would toss this on First Amendment grounds in seconds. Their licences aren't up for years. Carr is a bootlicking fascist that needs to be investigated the second Democrats take back the House and the Senate
Deep Hurting 🐈🐈⬛𓃠5One thing Disney has is a rather large bank account. If anybody's got the $$$ to fight the gov't, it's Disney. Jimmy has the right to say whatever he likes, if you don't like it too bad. Fu*k your feelings.
Switch needs politicians to stop hurting kids.4Wow, Disney learned from the last time Kimmel was targeted...
Kim3The fact anyone assumed Disney would not stand by him is damning in itself and Disney's own fault.
levynche.bsky.social3Republicans are SNOWFLAKES! They can dish it but can't take it!!
levynche.bsky.social2I don't wanna hear Democrat excuses for not going after Fox News!! A station that spews lies hate and conspiracy theories constantly!!
