The president snapped after watching a TV show he didn’t like and said CBS should lose its license.
Donald Trump on Sunday called for “maximum fines and punishment” against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, over Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.
In two separate posts on his Truth Social website, Trump complained about the show’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last year ― which he is suing the company over ― and railed against Sunday night’s reports on Greenland and the war in Ukraine.
Does anyone else remember when “senile old man yells at the TV” wasn’t relevant political news*? I do. Can we please go back to those times?
Oh, pre-2016, how I miss you.
(It’s relevant because he has toadies in place to enforce his insane whims).
When people stop electing them into positions of massive power then yes, we can stop talking about them.
Except trump admitted the election was rigged.
Yeah, quit with the “fair & square” bullshit, it was rigged and we ALL know it.
And we’ve never really seen that go anywhere.
- with lack of well known evidence, I assume that there is no evidence of widespread direct fraud
- but we know there was voter suppression in many states. Why haven’t I seen anything about the impact of that?
- and we know there was vote buying, in any sane world, someone would be in jail already
“But his tan suit!!!1”
She wore a tan suit too
I remember when hearing from the president was special and they would prepare a statement or speech. It made news because it was important and rare.
Now it’s a multiple times a day occurrence of verbal diarrhea.
Trump needs to be removed from office and we should be out in the streets calling for nothing less
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We were on the fifth & will be again on the nineteenth.
April 19th
I thought this was the onion for a good 2 seconds.
This guy has himself surrounded by yes men and is locked into his own disinformation bubble for most of the time. Getting a glimpse of what people who aren’t kissing his ass really are thinking about him must have been quite the whiplash for his tiny sick mind to take.
I watch 60 Minutes regularly. Mostly the mainstream media is way too easy on this administration. While this wasn’t some crushing indictment, I can see why Trump was unhappy about it. And Zelenskyy was being super diplomatic. I know deep down he just wants to tell Trump to go fuck himself.
This week on The Americans, they discover that they elected the old man who yells at the TV! Hilarity ensues when he chucks the remote and breaks the screen then goes on a wacky adventure to buy another TV under the new tariffs!
He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the position by Trump, to deliver “substantial” penalties to the network for what he called “unlawful and illegal behavior.”
FCC: “No.”
You mean the FCC chair that has recently taken to wearing a pin with Trump’s fat fucking face on it? I think you mean…
FCC: Sure thing, bossman.
Yeah, but only because “CBS” doesn’t have a broadcast license, stations do.
Also, cable TV doesn’t use “broadcast licenses”, and IPTV & streaming certainly don’t.
A lot of what Trump does makes sense when you realize his brain ossified in 1982.
A lot of what Trump does makes sense when you realize his brain ossified in 1982.
If that were true he wouldn’t be such a fanboy for Russia. He didn’t become an asset for them until 1987.
Couldn’t they put penalties on all individual stations broadcasting CBS?
Effectively forcing them to stop broadcasting?
I’m curious because I like a lot of shows on CBS. Though I watch it on cable which you are saying is not regulated by the FCC?
It’s not that the FCC doesn’t regulate cable, it’s that cable doesn’t have broadcast licenses. No spectrum license to revoke.
The path to regulating a cable TV channel is not a straightforward one in the US. If it was, cable news a la Fox would have been in the crosshairs devades ago.
But he was put there by Trump, so he’ll do it. Just like all these other agencies.
Trump: 60 Minutes is all lies and hate!
Faux News: Yeah, that’s our thing!
Not maximum enough if he’s still breathing afterwards.
Hitler was notorious for his temper tantrums. He is confirmed to have watched Charlie Chaplin’s iconic 1940 film ‘Thr Great Dictator’ but never said or wrote what he thought of it. Charlie Chaplin said that he would have given anything to know what he thought of it.
Maybe they just showed him the same cut as in Iron Sky (2012). It would be amazin if that joke was that deep.
Trump is born almost exactly 1 year later after hitlers death coincidence? Reincarnation baby, no quick saves.
The CIA must have operation paper clipped Hitler’s soul.
Something must have happened in the process though, at least Hitler was halfway competent.
Not really, he wasn’t. The myth of Nazi/fascist competence comes from a combination of propaganda and “right time, right place” in terms of when they took the reins of the German economy. A kind of funny example that isn’t Nazis, but their contemporary fascists, Mussolini’s Italian regime damaged the on-time performance of trains in Italy, but the regime kept saying the trains were running on time to the point where it’s become a whole saying about excusing fascism because of its competence/results (“at least the trains run on time”).
Oh, so it’s like “at least eggs are cheaper”? Neat
It’s effective. If you listen to interviews where people give reasons they voted for mango Mussolini, it’s invariably something he declared regardless of reality or evidence.
It shouldn’t take much listening to the guy to realize everything he says is BS but apparently some people only hear what they want to, and take that as fact
Straight up, the dude has been the beneficiary of the most dick-riding post-humous propaganda ever, second maybe only to Robert E. Lee or Jeff Davis.
Well when you respond missing half your brain
The allied forces explicitly decided not to try assassinating Hitler. They were worried someone more competent would take his place.
His tweets read like Donald Trump putting his own words into an LLM that edits text to sound like Donald Trump. Like he typed his normal nonsense into ChatGPT and said “make it sound smart but still like Donald Trump.”
We need to protect these 60 minutes people. They’re very brave and patriotic. We owe them protection for their service to America right now
What could this guy do that could be illegal and punishable? What?
Guys why are you talking bad about the supreme leader? He’ll arrest you and starve your family.
Off to the Salvadoran concentration camp with those filthy wokist terrorists!
I’ve heard it called, El Azkaban. Catchy.
Gotta watch out or the dementors will get cha.
Trump is a BIG STRONG MAN and as Someone who Defends Mass School Shooters because of the Constitution I AGREE with Him about News Stations LOSING Their Licenses if they HURT his Feefees!
Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe this is the 60 minutes in question?
