US President Donald Trump ruled his dispute with late night veteran David Letterman, this time through a fire contribution on his social media Truth Social.
“Anything happened to a very highly overvalued David Letterman, whose rating has never been very good. He looks like hell, but at least knew when to stop. Loser !!!” Trump wrote and the former host of the talk show ran over.
The US President’s explosion came shortly after Letterman criticized the US transmitter ABC for suspending Jimmy’s talk show Kimmel. Letterman called The Move “suffering” and “ridiculous” at the Atlantic Festival in New York and warned that he had signaled the rise of “administered media”. He claimed that the networks should not bow to political pressure and joking that, unlike Kimmel, he was “smart enough to cancel”.
ABC announced Kimmel’s suspension after his controversial remarks on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. The decision followed with a sharp criticism of FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, who warned that associated entities risked regulatory control unless the measure was taken.
While the Conservatives accused Kimmel of distortion of the facts of the suspect’s political tendencies, critics claimed that the broadcaster had given up censorship under the influence of Trump’s administration.
Letterman, who more than three decades ago more than three decades ago, defended the role of satire in democracy. “The institution of the United States President should be greater than the guy doing a talk show. You should really be bigger,” he said, adding that he had never failed to intervene during his career.
The suspension shook the community of late night. While the hosts often stood each other, Kimmel even fought Stephen Colbert after the CBS canceled the late show; This time the answers remain mixed. Fox News host Greg Gutfeld ridiculed Kimmel like a “clown” while others were silent.
For Letterman, however, controversy exceeds TV rivalry – he sees it as a warning sign for the freedom of the press in an American changing media environment.
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