Former president Barack Obama is speaking out against ABC ‘s decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air in the wake of Federal Communications Commission threats related to Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination .
“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,” Obama wrote on X .
On Wednesday, a network spokesperson for ABC revealed that Jimmy Kimmel Live ! would be “preempted indefinitely” after Nexstar — which owns 33 ABC affiliates nationwide, including stations in Nashville, New Orleans and other, smaller markets — decided not to air the show