FCC Commissioner Blasts Her Own Agency's 'Straight-Up Censorship' Fueled by Trump [View all]

Source: MEDIAite

May 23rd, 2026, 3:53 pm


FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez ripped her own agency for waging a campaign of “straight-up censorship” against The Walt Disney Company and ABC that is being driven by President Donald Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

Gomez went off during an interview on MS NOW’s The Weeknight on Friday. “This administration has been engaged in a campaign of censorship and control, and Disney has been a real target of this administration because it’s actually not capitulating,” Gomez said.

“Unlike CBS or Paramount, the parent company of where [Stephen] Colbert was,” co-host Symone Sanders Townsend chimed in. “Exactly,” Gomez affirmed.

Gomez then said it was a “direct assault on the First Amendment” when the FCC ordered eight ABC-owned TV stations to file early license renewal requests in April, which came soon after Trump called for ABC to fire the “seriously unfunny” Jimmy Kimmel. The commissioner told MS NOW it was an “unprecedented” violation by her agency.

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