BREAKING: Jon Stewart just SHREDDED ABC and Disney for cowardly bending to Trump's threats and taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air in a BLISTERING monologue for the ages. Stewart did NOT hold back!
In the 20-minute monologue, Stewart brilliantly exposed Trump’s obsession with silencing critics and mocked the pathetic executives who bent the knee by taking Jimmy Kimmel off the air.
Stewart launched his monologue with a clip of Trump, who, bragging from overseas, smirked: “Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago.”
Stewart SHREDDED that excuse: “This is how free speech works in America, folks. There’s a completely scientific instrument — a talentometer — that sits on the president’s desk.
And when a performer’s ‘talent quotient,’ measured mostly by how nice they are to the president, drops too low, the FCC is notified. Threats are made. Mergers are blocked. And poof — critics disappear. It’s basic science. Read your Constitution.”
Then Stewart turned the blade on Trump’s hypocrisy. He rolled clip after clip of Trump whining that Democrats can’t call Republicans “fascists” or “enemies of the state.” Stewart pounced: “Those are the rules, right? You can’t say fascist, you can’t say enemy of the state, you can’t say less than human.” Then he cut to Trump in his own words: “The Democrats, they’re fascists. Joe Biden, he’s an enemy of the state. Nancy Pelosi? She’s an animal. Of course, I think she’s an animal too.” Stewart smirked: “Technically correct. She’s not a mineral.” The hypocrisy was laid bare.
But the moment that landed like a gut punch was when Stewart ....
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For the record, Kimmel's comments were aimed at the suspect accused of killing Kirk and were not about Kirk at all.
And you'll notice that even this says that the FCC would "consider" taking action against the network.
