Trump launches new attack on ‘talk shows’ and TV stations

President Donald Trump speaks during the Mexican Border Defense Medal ceremony in the Oval Office of the White House on December 15, 2025 AP Photo/Alex Brandon The President of the United States, Donald Trump, launched a new attack against “talk shows”, a frequent target of his criticism, and against television stations in general, threatening once again to revoke their licenses. ✅ Follow g1’s international news channel on WhatsApp Trump used particularly hostile language to demand the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s CBS show, in a message published Tuesday night on his Truth Social platform. The network “should take him off the air NOW, it’s the only humane thing to do,” demanded the president, calling the popular comedian a “pathetic disaster.” He used the English verb “put to sleep”, generally used to describe the act of sacrificing animals. “If the networks’ news and talk shows are almost 100% negative about President Donald J. Trump, MAGA (the Trump movement “Make America Great Again”) and the Republican Party, shouldn’t their valuable broadcasting licenses be revoked? I say yes,” the 79-year-old Republican wrote in another message, reiterating a threat he had already made. Esptein case: new files show Trump’s presence on the billionaire’s private jet CBS announced that the nightly program hosted by Colbert will come to an end in May, a decision that led Trump’s critics to denounce it as censorship. Months ago, the Republican president convinced Paramount – the parent company of CBS – to pay US$16 million (R$88.5 million) to settle a lawsuit that alleged that the network’s “60 Minutes” program had edited an interview with his Democratic rival in the elections, Kamala Harris, to favor her. Last weekend, the station’s new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, canceled at the last minute a report on the controversial Salvadoran mega prison where Trump sent undocumented immigrants. Another network, ABC, briefly suspended its late-night talk show star, Jimmy Kimmel, before reinstating him and extending his contract for another year, until mid-2027. Trump wants to transform the media landscape, which he says is characterized by an anti-conservative bias. He appointed one of his allies, Brendan Carr, to head the United States’ media regulatory agency, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Recently, Carr sparked controversy during a Congressional hearing by stating that “the FCC is not formally an independent agency,” implying that its actions could therefore be aligned with the White House’s policy priorities. See the videos that are trending on g1

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