David Letterman denounced ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! following pressure from the Trump administration, saying, “This is misery,” during a panel at the Atlantic Festival on Thursday, Sept. 18 (via Variety ).

“We see where this is all going, correct?” Letterman said. “It’s managed media. And it’s no good. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous. And you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.”

He added, “The institution of the president of the United States ought to be bigger than a guy doing a talk show.”

ABC abruptly pulled Kimmel on Wednesday following conservative outcry over a joke the host made during a recent monologue about the s

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