Posted on 09/18/2025 3:25:29 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Since taking office in January, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against the media unlike any in modern U.S. history, making moves similar to those of authoritarian leaders that he has often praised.
On Wednesday, Trump cheered ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show after the comedian made remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that criticized the president’s MAGA movement: “Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
It was the latest in a string of attacks against news outlets and media figures he believes are overly critical of him. Trump has filed lawsuits against outlets whose coverage he dislikes, threatened to revoke TV broadcast licenses and sought to bend news organizations and social media companies to his will.
The tactics are similar to those used by leaders in other countries who have chipped away at speech freedoms and independent media while consolidating political power, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a close Trump ally whose leadership style is revered by many conservatives in the U.S.
“What we’re seeing is an unprecedented attempt to silence disfavored speech by the government,” said Brendan Nyhan, a political scientist at Dartmouth College. “Donald Trump is trying to dictate what Americans can say.”
The moves against independent media, along with Orbán’s systematic capture of Hungary’s democratic institutions, prompted the European Parliament in 2022 to declare that the country could no longer be considered a democracy.
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I hope everyone remembers the real victim ...Charlie.
It’s not silencing dissent. It’s punishing liars. The media is getting some of what it is due for years of controlling the airwaves and filling them with propaganda.
No bias here.
Unlike Biden, who never interfered with people’s free speech.
(sarcasm)
So now it’s “dissent” to make fun of and celebrate a man’s death - because you don’t like what he said.
WOW these morons really are as stupid as they look. They are giving Trump WAY too much credit here he had NOTHING to do with Kimmel being suspended..WE got him suspended NOT Trump. People were calling ABC affiliates all day yesterday asking them is this the kind of garbage you want on your broadcast and they said NO so ABC had no choice they had to suspend him
Obama put a Fox reporter in jail. Trump has nothing to do with Kimmel being fired. He did that to himself.
Shove it AP. Lying scum.
‘Dissent’ doesn’t cover criminal acts or conspiracies to overthrow the government, or solicit murder, a line that was crossed many moons ago.
“It’s not silencing dissent. It’s punishing liars”
I agree, but not so long ago we were called liars for the stolen election, J6, and numerous covid facts. If this becomes the norm, when then Dems get back into power they WILL start arresting Fox news hosts for saying something they deem “a lie”.
There is a thread here that indicates that Trump Admin has more to do with it than you think. I only skimmed it . something about a merger and trying to stay clear of Carr.
If the Left gets back in power, we'll all get sent to re-education camps.
No doubt.
I, for one, am clutching my pearls in “solidarity, with those who are crying for a man losing his job because he’s a complete d**k
NOT!
Since 1950, the Lying Mainstream Media, and The Associated Presstitutes have deserved an aggressive campaign against them.
Finally it gets started.
“....after the comedian made remarks about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that criticized the president’s MAGA movement”
So the AP is lying about the lie that Jimmy told🙄.
These people are delusional.
It’s like one of those funhouses with mirrors everywhere... lies lies lies.
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