Barack Obama is calling out the Trump administration for its role in pulling “ Jimmy Kimmel Live” off the air.

“After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like,” the former president wrote on X on Thursday , linking to Yahoo News’ reposting of a Vox article that calls the Kimmel suspension “Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.”

ABC halted production on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Wednesday after the FCC threatened to take action against the network for the host’s recent comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang d

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