Donald Trump didn’t maintain again whereas sharing his emotions about NBC and ABC’s protection of his second presidential time period to this point.
“Regardless of a really excessive reputation and, based on many, among the many best 8 months in Presidential Historical past, ABC & NBC FAKE NEWS, two of the worst and most biased networks in historical past, give me 97% BAD STORIES,” he wrote in a late-night Fact Social submit on Sunday, August 24. (The Media Analysis Middle reported earlier this 12 months that 92 % of ABC, NBC, and CBS’s protection of Trump from January by way of April was unfavorable, per Fox Information.)
“IF THAT IS THE CASE, THEY ARE SIMPLY AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY AND SHOULD, ACCORDING TO MANY, HAVE THEIR LICENSES REVOKED BY THE FCC,” Trump continued. “I’d be completely in favor of that as a result of they’re so biased and untruthful, an precise menace to our Democracy!!! MAGA.”
Nationwide networks reminiscent of NBC, ABC, and CBS don’t maintain FCC licenses. Nevertheless, the FCC does have management over the key networks’ native broadcast associates.
In a follow-up Fact Social submit, Trump wrote, “Why is it that ABC and NBC FAKE NEWS, two of absolutely the worst and most biased networks anyplace within the World, aren’t paying Thousands and thousands of {Dollars} a 12 months in LICENSE FEES?”
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Trump acknowledged that NBC and ABC “ought to lose their Licenses for his or her unfair protection of Republicans and/or Conservatives, however at a minimal, they need to pay up BIG for having the privilege of utilizing essentially the most beneficial airwaves anyplace at anytime!!!”
He concluded his nighttime social media rant by writing, “Crooked ‘journalism’ shouldn’t be rewarded, it needs to be terminated!!!”
Trump shares connections to each networks. His well-known actuality sequence The Apprentice aired on NBC from 2004 to 2017. Final 12 months, ABC settled a defamation lawsuit with Trump for $15 million.
Trump has discovered himself wrapped up in drama with CBS following the cancellation of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert final month. Although CBS acknowledged the cancellation was a monetary resolution, some have speculated that it was axed because of Paramount’s $16 million lawsuit settlement with Trump. He beforehand accused 60 Minutes of closely enhancing a 2024 interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump shut down rumors that he was chargeable for The Late Present’s finish in a July 29 Fact Social submit, writing, “All people is saying that I used to be solely chargeable for the firing of Stephen Colbert from CBS, Late Evening. That isn’t true! The rationale he was fired was a pure lack of TALENT, and the truth that this deficiency was costing CBS $50 Million {Dollars} a 12 months in losses — And it was solely going to get WORSE!”
He went on to say that Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon‘s late-night sequence are the subsequent to be canceled, including, “The one actual query is, who will go first? Present Biz and Tv is a quite simple enterprise. For those who get Scores, you possibly can say or do something. For those who don’t, you at all times develop into a sufferer. Colbert turned a sufferer to himself, the opposite two will comply with.”