Trump Threatens Comcast After Seth Meyers Makes Jokes About Him [View all]

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.”...................



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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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