Wait. I thought that the Democrats were the ones that intervened in “Big Media” to control the message and “rig” elections? Alas, it is just another case of accusing the Democrats of doing what Trump and his acolytes already did. According to Rolling Stone, Trump was upset that Jimmy Kimmel was a bit too effective in skewering Trump, and thus White House staff called Disney executives (Disney owns ABC) in an effort to shut Kimmel up.
It didn’t work. From Rolling Stone, linked at the bottom:
The then-president, according to two former Trump administration officials, was so upset by Jimmy Kimmel’s comedic jabs that he directed his White House staff to call up one of Disney’s top executives in Washington, D.C., to complain and demand action. (ABC, on which Jimmy Kimmel Live! has long aired, is owned by Disney.)
Trump has to be the only president ever who thought that he could just call up the media and get comedians to stop using him as the butt of their jokes.
In at least two separate phone calls that occurred around the time Trump was finishing his first year in office, the White House conveyed the severity of his fury with Kimmel to Disney, the ex-officials tell Rolling Stone.
Oh. Well. If he was really really mad, in a “fury,” that makes it entirely different… pffft.
Trump’s staff mentioned that the leader of the free world wanted the billion-dollar company to rein in the Trump-trashing ABC host, and that Trump felt that Kimmel had, in the characterization of one former senior administration official, been “very dishonest and doing things that [Trump] would have once sued over.”
Trump loves to call critics “very dishonest.” And it never fails to bring out a chuckle in me. And the “doing things Trump would’ve once sued over”? Very very scary. He would have sued but for the fact that he’d never find a team of lawyers that would take the case. Comedians make fun of presidents. There is no line where they are “too good at it.”
And Kimmel is still at it:
Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s scathing criticism of Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show: “The only part of the halftime show he liked was that all the dancers wore white hoods.”
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) February 14, 2023
Link to the story:
Trump was so incensed by Jimmy Kimmel making fun of him that he had his White House staff take action https://t.co/73RkMIAYJa
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) February 26, 2023
If I was Stephen Colbert or Jimmy Fallon, I’d be really depressed.
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Oh fucking covfefe. We need much more of making fun of 45.
The biggest pampered whining toddler gets his Depends up his gigantic crack. Another blizzard of snowflakes from the nazi bitch in nazi land, formerly known as florida. Boo fucking hoo!
Republicans have regularly accused democrats of what they have already done, or are presently doing! Therefor, when pubes accuse dems of election fraud… You do the math. Pretty much across the board, what they publicly say about anything, isn’t what they’re doing privately. They’re likely doing the exact opposite. If they say we shouldn’t kill dogs, they’re probably killing dogs somewhere. If thy say their new bill is all about clean air and water, you can bet your sweet ass water and air will get dirtier if they pass the bill! Healthcare? Worse. There was a time when I would have made the both sides argument, but that was before I started really paying attention.