WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday bashed US media coverage that he claimed was unduly negative and therefore “illegal,” stoking a debate over free speech following the suspension of comedian Jimmy Kimmel’s TV show by ABC. “They’ll take a great story and they’ll make it bad. See I think it’s really illegal, personally,” Trump, who has sued multiple major news organizations this year, told reporters gathered in the Oval Office.

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

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