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Kimmel vs. Trump - "Nice Work If You Can Keep It: The Night Trump Silenced Late Night"

Kimmel vs. Trump - "Nice Work If You Can Keep It: The Night Trump Silenced Late Night"

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 September 17, 2025: Jimmy Kimmel Live goes dark. After FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Kimmel's comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination, ABC caves to pressure and pulls the show "indefinitely." Behind the corporate surrender: Nexstar's $6.2 billion merger hanging in the balance, death threats to Disney employees, and Donald Trump's twenty-year vendetta against the comedian who refused to stop mocking him. From Obama birther jokes to COVID callouts, from Oscar tweets to January 6th rage, Marcus Reid chronicles how a late-night host became Trump's most persistent enemy—and the first casualty in his war on comedy. Featuring the backroom executive meetings, the regulatory extortion, and the chilling message sent to every comedian in America: mock power at your own peril. As of this recording, Kimmel remains silenced. Fallon and Meyers are threatened next. The First Amendment meets corporate cowardice, and corporate cowardice wins.

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