Former Late Show host-turned Netflix talk show host David Letterman launched an unhinged tirade on Thursday, calling Jimmy Kimmel’s Live broadcast being pulled off the air indefinitely evidence of companies attempting to “suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office.”

“I feel bad about this,” David Letter said speaking at The Atlantic Festival 2025. “We see where this is all going, correct? 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.”

“This is misery,” Letterman said.

“In the world of somebody who is an authoritarian, maybe a dictatorship, sooner or late

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