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riversedge

(73,755 posts)
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 01:19 PM Wednesday

Trump Threatens Comcast After Seth Meyers Makes Jokes About Him

Source: truthout.org



The president-elect claims to support free speech but frequently refers to the media as “enemies” of the U.S.

Chris Walker January 15, 2025


Earlier this week, president-elect Donald Trump continued his attacks on the media, directing his ire at comedian Seth Meyers after the NBC late-night host made jokes at Trump’s expense.

Trump’s response to the jokes — and subsequent threats against the company that owns the network itself — are the latest indication that he may aim to quell dissent and First Amendment speech freedoms when he enters the White House next week.

After Meyers blasted the president-elect during a regular segment on his program called “Closer Look,” Trump took to his Truth Social account on Tuesday morning, deriding Meyers for being a “bad” comedian and calling him a “moron” and “untalented.”

During the segment, Meyers stated that little is known about what Trump has planned for his second term “given that he has no fixed principles or core beliefs or coherent ideas or constructive solutions or plans or proposals or policies or values or thoughts of any kind.”

Trump “watches TV and then he scream-posts about what he just saw on TV,” Meyers explained, adding that he views the president-elect as “an intellectual Roomba…[that] goes in one direction until he bumps into something and then he just goes off into another direction.”...................



Read more: https://truthout.org/articles/trump-threatens-comcast-after-seth-meyers-makes-jokes-about-him/



I think we are looking at 4 years of baby Trumpy threatening or actually suing the media.



Trump threatens Comcast after Seth Meyers makes jokes about him. The president-elect claims to support free speech but frequently refers to the media as “enemies” of the U.S.


"Late Night with Seth Meyers" host Seth Meyers, featuring an image of Donald Trump next to him, during the show's monologue on September 9, 2021.
NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images
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Trump Threatens Comcast After Seth Meyers Makes Jokes About Him (Original Post) riversedge Wednesday OP
Trumple Thinskin sakabatou Wednesday #1
Sounds like Seth nailed him. underpants Wednesday #2
It was pretty funny. 2naSalit Wednesday #3
Here it is: William Seger Wednesday #4
Seth's reply should be: Bring it jvill Wednesday #5
Yeah, just tell the truth not fooled Wednesday #13
He's a 78year old buffoon, ridicule is all he deserves. Denvermosaic Wednesday #6
Time to acknowledge Trump hates himself. SleeplessinSoCal Wednesday #7
tRUMP is a big f**king baby, can't handle any sort of criticism what-so-ever. And the other so-called-republican SWBTATTReg Wednesday #8
I suspect the 🍑💩🤡 will go after all late night comedians that point out how much of a 🍑💩🤡 he really is. kimbutgar Wednesday #9
Whine and Moan Harder Mump... don't want Cha Wednesday #10
This will boost Seth Meyer's viewership LetMyPeopleVote Wednesday #11
Intellectual Roomba Mz Pip Wednesday #12
And sucking up dirt not fooled Wednesday #14

2naSalit

(94,178 posts)
3. It was pretty funny.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 01:48 PM
Wednesday

The whiner in chief will spend most of his time trying to convince the world that he is the ultimate victim of mankind and NOBODY has EVER been so mistreated in the history of our species.

 

jvill

(459 posts)
5. Seth's reply should be: Bring it
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 02:33 PM
Wednesday

Four years of a bullshit lawsuit that feeds Seth new content every week would be gold for his career. Half this country absolutely loathes Trump. They would appreciate seeing Trump abused nightly.

SWBTATTReg

(24,518 posts)
8. tRUMP is a big f**king baby, can't handle any sort of criticism what-so-ever. And the other so-called-republican
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 04:04 PM
Wednesday

adults in the room? They're worthless. Absolutely worthless and they too, will work w/ tRUMP to strip away rights from Americans, give the 1% even more tax breaks/cuts, w/o paying for them, or if they do something crazy to pay for these upcoming tax cuts, a lot of us fear (and not just democrats collecting their long-earned social security earnings that so many of us have worked so long and so hard for).

I think Pres. Biden did go (or try to) the 2017 tax cuts that tRUMP put into place during his first term. I couldn't find anything on it so far but will continue to dig into the vast trove of information that's out in Internet land.

One fact that did stand out, is that tRUMP's tax cut of 2017 did hurt black Americans and did contribute to income inequality (duhhh, yes!!). IMHO, it also contributed to the additional massive federal deficit ballooning in size by $trillions of dollars more (cuts passed w/o being paid for). The stimulus payments would be spent by lower income Americans (not the 1%ers) and thus, lead to a more robust economy for all, which is lifting ALL boats.

I think that any new tax cuts should be directed more to lower income Americans of all stripes, and not just be tax cuts, but stimulus payments which would have had the additional benefits of stimulating the Economy far more than a mere tax cut of the %s that the 1% pay, as tRUMP seems to think. All he's really doing, is improving his lot and no one else's.

Instead of tax cuts for the 1%ers, their tax cuts should be rescinded instead, and in addition, they should be taxed at an higher rate. The reason being that since from 2017, the stock markets are massively higher, and the tax rates are already low enough as it is, plus they get so many benefits from better tax code treatments of their deductions (which leads to a lower effective tax rate for the 1%ers).

Oh well, who am I fooling? tRUMP will get his non-paid tax cuts since everything is rigged and us lower peons won't see much, if anything. We're becoming the 'forgotten' Americans (99% of us, give or take) again.

kimbutgar

(23,813 posts)
9. I suspect the 🍑💩🤡 will go after all late night comedians that point out how much of a 🍑💩🤡 he really is.
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 04:07 PM
Wednesday

Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert and Myers. Will the networks bow down to Hitler 2.0 and appease him and silence these comedians?

Comedy and Humor is the one thing that keeps me going in these difficult times.

Cha

(306,199 posts)
10. Whine and Moan Harder Mump... don't want
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 04:10 PM
Wednesday

anyone to make fun of you.. Stop being a fucking Fascist Stupid Asshole.

not fooled

(6,137 posts)
14. And sucking up dirt
Wed Jan 15, 2025, 09:47 PM
Wednesday

all the while. That one's gonna stick, like short-fingered vulgarian.

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