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SEE THEM COMING
When the president of a country congratulates television networks for firing presenters as if that were a service to the country, it is time to worry.
Trump ran for office crying and won, crying. Crying for the cancel culture, for the lack of freedom of expression, because of the censorship that muzzled conservative thought in the United States.
On the same day of his inauguration, January 20, 2025, he signed an executive order to “restore freedom of expression and end federal censorship.” That day he said that “Government censorship of free speech is intolerable in a free society.”.
Simple, clear, understandable even for a moral person of medium sensitivity.
But to Jimmy Kimmel The show he hosted has been canceled indefinitely for doing comedy in his monologue about Trump’s reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk.
Sorry, President Trump, you’ve dropped an executive order in your unstoppable march to save the United States of America.
When the president of a country congratulates television networks for firing presenters as if that were a service to the country, it is time to worry.
Not a big fan of Jimmy Kimmel, but if you think his show should be canceled for this, you’re a hack and a total fraud who should never pretend to care about free speech pic.twitter.com/FSiktbva6y
— Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) September 17, 2025
As with so many other causes that brought him to power (from the list Epstein until the war in Ukraine), Trump has taken freedom of expression and shoved it down Jimmy Kimmel’s throat at the exact moment it stopped serving him.
I imagine Trump making calls from the White House. “What first amendment or what dead child, you take Kimmel away from me or I take him back.”
And the network executives, who are surely among those who wear the rainbow on LinkedIn during Pride month because that is what the doctrine of moralistic capitalism dictates, rushing to comply with the orders dictated by the dogma of offended sensibilities.
It’s the money, friends.
Then they will meet at conferences to debate how to save the profession, they will lament the loss of credibility of the media, and they will all agree that polarization is to blame.
No one will dare to say that it is cowardice that is killing the sector.
No, what we need is not another “transparency and good practices” guide.
The worst thing is not Trump. Trump plays Trump.
Trump speaks aboard Air Force One upon returning from a state visit.
Reuters
The worst thing is the chorus that applauds and the crowd that remains silent, convinced that, if they remain silent, perhaps the scythe will pass them by. As if history had the habit of rewarding the prudence of the lukewarm.
In the meantime, don’t even think about suggesting on a comedy show (rather mediocre, on the other hand) that Charlie Kirk’s death is being politicized. Because perhaps the same politicians you criticize will take advantage of the situation to shut you down. This way they will make it clear that, of course, a homicide is not being instrumentalized.
And anyone who suggests it will be sent off the job.
Make America Great Again It turns out it was the same story, but with a different villain. It is not worthy to say that we did not know what was coming to us.
And all this in the name of murdering a person. who made a career out of dialogue with everyone who thought differently.
It’s hard to be more cynical.