The Technocratic Trump administration is not only launching Public Private Partnerships with Big Tech companies — they are seeking to dominate the media landscape.
In the first part of this series we examined the major ways in which the Trump administration is expanding the mission of the Technocrats by the merging of state and corporate relationships. Specifically, we highlighted how the second Trump admin is buying stake in American companies and forming Public Private Partnerships.
For this next part of the series, we will focus on how Donald Trump is working with the Technocrats to consolidate control over American legacy media, as well as social media. Once again, we can see that Trump and his team are moving rapidly to seize the airwaves and at least one social media network. These actions will not benefit the American people or promote the principles of free speech. Instead, it will further empower the Technocratic Trump administration and the Zionists backing Trump himself.
The Cancelling of Jimmy Kimmel
On September 15, late night host Jimmy Kimmel used his opening monologue to discuss President Trump’s reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kimmel specifically focused on the attempts to link the alleged assassin to the “radical left”, as well as making fun of Trump’s response to a question about Kirk’s shooting.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it.,” Kimmel said during the opening. Kimmel also joked about Trump’s reaction to the shooting, comparing him to “how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish.”
Soon after the comments, Trump began posting on social media about Kimmel and calling for him to be fired. Two days later, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr appeared on right-wing provocateur and serial plagiarizer Benny Johnson’s podcast and threatened to take action against ABC, Disney, and other ABC affiliates if they did not cancel Kimmel.
“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr stated. “These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
Carr went on to state that the FCC “has a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC, and network parent Disney accountable for spreading misinformation” because Kimmel “appeared to be making an intentional effort to mislead the public that Kirk’s assassin was a right-wing Trump supporter.”
Within hours of Carr’s statements going viral on social media, Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group announced they would pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! from all of their ABC-affiliated stations. The two companies are the largest ABC affiliates in the US with a combined 23.84% share of the network’s national broadcast coverage. ABC followed suit and announced Kimmel would be suspended indefinitely. The suspension lasted from September 17 to the 22nd before Kimmel was finally brought back to television.
While Trump didn’t explicitly tell Carr to make these statements, and Carr didn’t directly tell the companies to cancel him, its quite obvious that his thinly veiled threats were intended to spur the stations to take action. In this case, the action was to cancel Kimmel and send a message to others about the potential consequences of making fun of Trump. While Kimmel’s statements were indeed inaccurate — the alleged shooter Tyler Robinson did grow up in a conservative Trump supporting home, but also reportedly was “radicalized” by left wing ideology in recent years — they did not warrant the intervention of the President of the United States or his crony FCC chairman.
This is not the first time Carr has made it clear that he plans to use his job at the FCC to crack down on speech that he believes doesn’t serve the public interest. Over the years, Carr has argued that he can withhold licenses from media companies if he believes they are biased against conservatives. Additionally, Carr also authored the FCC of the Heritage Foundation’s controversial Project 2025 policy platform. Carr used that chapter to call for restricting social media platforms under the guise of fighting censorship and championing free speech. In reality, it appears Carr wants to use his position to silence speech which is not in alignment with Donald Trump’s vision of America.
It should also be noted that Brendan Carr was the architect of Donald Trump’s rollout of 5G technology during his first term in the White House. In late September 2019, I confronted Carr twice about his close relationship with the telecommunications companies behind the 5g expansion.
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