Jimmy Kimmel’s host is suspended by ABC owned by Disney, is the latest instance of the main American media society that occurs to Trump’s administration and prefers profits over the freedom of expression.
Hundreds of writers and actors protest outside the ABC office against the company’s decision to indefinitely suspend Kimmel’s show. The influential signs that sound “ABC bending the knee of fascism” have returned to the Disney Gate of Alamed Avenue, where they last protested during the 2023 strike.
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The decision was criticized by writers, artists, former US President Barack Obama and others who described him as surrender against unconstitutional government pressure.
On Thursday, demonstrators gathered outside the Hollywood studio, where the show is shot to protest against suspension. Demonstrators held stamps that read: “Do not bend the knee to Trump”, “resist fascism”, “Douse Mouse” and “cancel Disney”. The event was charged as “protest against comedy, criticism and 1 amendment”.
Shortly after Kimmel’s news, writers Guild of America West and writers Guild of America East wrote: “The right to talk about our mind and disagree – disrupt – even – even – even at the very core of what it means to be free people. influence to silence the voices of writers or anyone who speaks in disagreement. If the freedom of expression applies only to ideas that we like, we do not have to bother to write to the constitution. What we have signed for is found that it is up to our job, that it is up to our job, because it is found that it is on our employer. The silence tastes us the whole world. ”
Writers Guild of America issued a statement about the ABC decision to pull out “Jimmy Kimmel Live”.
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Asked about the ABC decision, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, he reminded the participants that freedom of speech was “part of who we are” in Britain. This is one of the reasons, he added why the country was fighting alongside the US in World War II, Bloomberg reported.
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President Donald Trump, who stood beside him, had a different perspective. “Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented man,” Trump said. “He had a very bad rating and should have fired it long ago. So, you know, you can call freedom of speech or not. He was released because of the lack of talent.”
What is Jimmy Kimmel’s controversy?
Kimmel, a comedian who often said Lampoons Trump during his nine -minute opening monologue on Monday, said that the Allies Kirk used his assassination to “score political points”.
He also struck the fun of Trump after the president turned a question about his personal sadness Kirka to promote for his new White House Ballroom.
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“Such an adult murder someone he called a friend. Such a four -year -old mourn goldfish,” Kimmel said.
On Tuesday, Kirk’s murder was accused of Kirk’s murder 22 -year -old technical university student, Tyler Robinson of Utah.
Since he returned to the White House in January, Trump used his office and courts to attack an unflattering talk about him that he called slander or false.
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In the week after the murder of Charlie Kirk, Jimmy Kimmel became the most important American who faced professional consequences over the notes that the Conservatives condemned as disrespectful towards Kirk. Other disabled include media personalities, educators, academic employees and employees of the company.
Prominent Democrats accused Trump of the beginning of the attack on the protection of freedom of the first amendment. Meanwhile, Republicans say they are fighting “hateful manifestations” that could evoke violence, and claim that some of Kirka’s critics are trying to rationalize or apologize to his killing, and reported.
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