Trump Tells Reporters FCC Could Suspend Licenses For "Bad Publicity"

Trump has now come out and said, you can't excessively mean to him, and if you are, the FCC is going to pull your license. His loyalists are certainly cheering this on. The FCC chairperson is declaring he's going to continue to change the media ecosystem and Trump is calling his shots. He's saying this comedian, that comedian. However, conservative personalities, conservative lawyers, are actually speaking out about this, saying, no, this is not how this works.

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If they're 97% against, they give me only bad publicity or press, I mean, they're getting a license. I would think maybe their license should be taken away.

Trump has now come out and said, you can't be mean to him or excessively mean to him, and if you are, the FCC is gonna pull your license.

Yeah, it was quite shocking last week when Donald Trump aboard Air Force One said that that shouldn't be allowed. Talking about anybody criticizing him on TV, in the media in any form, that shouldn't be allowed were his words. And of course, Jimmy Kimmel last week paid the price for that. And you have all of the right wing media mistakenly saying that it's because he criticized Charlie Kirk. Not at all what happened. He criticized Donald Trump's response, his flippant response when asked how he's feeling after Charlie Kirk's death. Trump turns around and says, look at this beautiful ballroom we're building. Ah, it's never been done. This is pretty awesome, right guys? That's what Kimmel mocked and it's now cost him his job and it's cost Disney billions of dollars in market share in the, it hadn't even been a week since that happened. Billions of dollars out of their value wiped out for bowing down to this wannabe dictator that we have in the oval office.

Well, his loyalists are certainly cheering this on. And the FCC chairperson is declaring he's going to continue to change the ecosystem, the media ecosystem, and Trump is calling his shots. He's saying this comedian, that comedian, he's naming for us all. And then of course, over the weekend we saw what we believe should have been a private message to Pam Bondi declaring that she has to go after his enemies now. Now's the time. Now's when they have to go after his political enemies. He promised this vengeance and he's doing it.

So we've got this mentally unstable, I think is probably the politically correct term to use at this point, because we're not sure if it's just neurological or psychological or a combination of both. So mentally unstable, I think is the best way to say it. This guy doesn't know his from a hole in the ground. He's sending out these messages that very obviously look like he was typing a note in his notes app, but accidentally put it in Truth Social. So he doesn't know what's going on. All he knows is that he wants people punished. And by God, Bondi's not doing it fast enough. Brendan Carr did it same day, and Pam Bondi can't get results after eight months. That's ridiculous to Trump. So we're about to see an even bigger crackdown and hopefully an even bigger negative response from the public, because that's what has been shocking to me about all this. You even have conservative personalities, conservative lawyers, that are actually speaking out about this, saying, no, this is not how this works. This is not what we are as a country. I don't like these folks, but they can say these things. In Trump's world, no, you can't. You're either a hundred percent loyal or you are someone that needs to be silenced and that's the message Trump is sending right now.

And it's silenced either by de-platforming you, by taking away your media credentials. Taking away your licenses. We see Hegseth in the Pentagon saying, you cannot, reporters, you cannot report anything, even if it's unclassified, unless an official approves it. And this is on the heels of what he's already declared that they're not allowed to roam around anymore, which has lasted for many decades over many administrations. So we have a tightening of information coming out from dear leader, and then anybody who dares speak against him is gonna pay the price, whether through the DOJ or the FCC or whatever other mechanism that violates the First Amendment.