Donald Trump suggests networks that carry critical coverage should lose licenses, amid calls for boycott of ABC owner Disney – key US politics stories from 18 September 2025

It's just his latest attack on a late night host who has been critical of the Trump administration.

President Trump rejected outcries from Democrats over the state of free speech after ABC pulled the TV show of late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel.

Suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s TV show over Charlie Kirk comments is latest sign of business coming under pressure from White House

“We may be coming full circle," Robert Thompson of Syracuse University told Fortune, "back to a Carson-style, harmless late night—with NBC the last one standing.”

President Donald Trump has applauded the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show over comments he made about the man accused of murdering Charlie Kirk.

Trump took to\u00a0Truth Social\u00a0to deride Jimmy Kimmel and throw some barbs at\u00a0Stephen Colbert,\u00a0Seth Meyers\u00a0and\u00a0Jimmy Fallon. It's not the first time.

Il presidente Usa suggerisce che il capo della FCC potrebbe revocare licenze alle reti televisive che lo criticano

President Trump said overwhelming negative coverage about him by TV networks should be grounds for the FCC to revoke their broadcast licenses.

Trump wants the ability to control what is said and who can say it. And he’s been getting it.

Concerns grow that the Trump administration is curtailing criticism after ABC host Jimmy Kimmel's show was cancelled.

Il commento del presidente è arrivato un giorno dopo che la Abc ha sospeso la messa in onda dello show «Jimmy Kimmel Live!»

Ratcheting up his what FCC commissioner Anna Gomez called a "campaign of censorship and control," Trump threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of networks that give him "bad…

Donald Trump suggests networks that carry critical coverage should lose licenses, amid calls for boycott of ABC owner Disney – key US politics stories from 18 September 2025

President says Jimmy Kimmel was ‘not a talented person’ as critics decry show’s suspension as an attack on free speech

LOS ANGELES: US President Donald Trump on Thursday celebrated the suspension of talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves and said TV broadcasters should lose their licenses…

US president says regulator should consider removing broadcast licences from those who ‘hit Trump’.

Networks like Disney's ABC, Paramount Skydance's CBS, Comcast Corp.'s NBC and Fox Corp.'s Fox are part of a system beholden to licensing over-the-air spectrum from the government.

It comes after late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was taken off air for comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

The suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show has triggered concerns about the US communications regulator's power over TV networks.

Disney’s Bob Iger and Paramount’s David Ellison are among the executives pulling the strings amid criticism that US TV networks are caving to the Trump administration