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 Trumps expense.
Trumps 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.
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"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.
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sakabatou
(43,403 posts)underpants
(187,773 posts)2naSalit
(94,178 posts)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.
William Seger
(11,173 posts)jvill
(459 posts)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.
not fooled
(6,137 posts)and it sounds like abuse. Absolute defense!
Denvermosaic
(125 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,789 posts)Why else would he watch?
SWBTATTReg
(24,518 posts)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)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)anyone to make fun of you.. Stop being a fucking Fascist Stupid Asshole.
LetMyPeopleVote
(156,451 posts)Mz Pip
(27,954 posts)Dang thats an accurate description of Trump.
I love that.
not fooled
(6,137 posts)all the while. That one's gonna stick, like short-fingered vulgarian.