Former U.S. president Barack Obama laid into the Trump administration Thursday following ABC’s decision to “indefinitely” suspend comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show.

The 64-year-old former head of state said suspending Kimmel over his comments about slain political commentator Charlie Kirk amounted to “government coercion,” accusing the Trump administration of playing fast and loose with the First Amendment, which protects the right to free speech in America.

“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 in a post on X .

Obama’s reference to regulatory

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