President Trump on Thursday floated revoking TV broadcast licenses for networks that cover him negatively, a day after ABC's indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
"They give me only bad publicity or press," the president said of the broadcast networks on the flight back from London. "I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr," who is the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
On Wednesday, ABC yanked Kimmel's late-night talk show over a monologue comment about the suspect in Charlie Kirk's assassination, hours after Carr had told right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that Kimmel's comments were "a very, very serious issue right now for Disney," which owns ABC. Kimmel had said "the MAGA gang" was