Jimmy Kimmel, “dictator,” Obama. Is it noise, Bruno Nogueira?

Another victim on television after someone says something that didn’t please Donald Trump. But the commission has a justification.

The news came on Thursday: ABC suspended, indefinitely, the mood program Jimmy Kimmel Live!, One of the most famous talk-shows from the US.

At issue comments by the presenter and humorist about the murder of, the conservative activist and supporter of Donald Trump.

“Mr. Kimmel’s comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive e insensitive In a critical moment of our national political discourse, and we do not believe that reflect the spectrum of opinions, visions or values ​​of the local communities in which we find ourselves, ”Andrew Alford, president of Nextar’s broadcasting division.

There was already a manifestation At the door of ABC: “make Jimmy come back, Trump has to leave.”

Other humorists have reacted.

O Daily Show He presented himself as a “new” program-because he had (allegedly) was “approved by the government” before the issue; Jon Stewart has suggested that the US President is “suffocating” freedom of expression in the country.

No The Late Showand simulating a new scene of The beautiful and monster From Walt Disney (ABC owner company), he heard: “Shut up. Stop with the nonsense. Our dear leader has thinner skin than a plastic sheet. Silence! They haven’t heard? You have to be grazed. Do not insult our dictator.”

Trump again (and Obama)

Donald Trump, pleased with this suspension, has already warned that there may be new punishments for those who criticize him: “Television stations have a license. But 97% are against me, always saying bad about me. licensity Continue ser withdrawals ”.

Barack Obama It was pronounced on the subject: “This is precisely the kind of governmental coercion that the first amendment was created to avoid-and media companies need to start positioning itself instead of capitulating,” the former US President in.

“After years of complaining about the culture of cancellation, the current government has led this to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory actions against media companies, unless they gag or dismiss journalists and commentators they don’t like,” Obama continued.

Noise?

Many Portuguese will have already thought of the series, recently aired by RTP.

The mood program, led by Bruno Nogueira, had a focus: Not being able to make humor.

Had censorship, one control, On the part of someone “superior” – one never knows who, exactly. People have to be hidden to see humor scenes, to laugh.

Many viewers associated soon: this is a Notice About what can come there. Humor can be controlled or even forbidden soon.

RTP itself said, in the presentation, that noise is more than a series of humor: “It is a reflection on censorship, freedom and transforming power of comedy“.

But at the same time, Bruno Nogueira himself said: “It is very difficult for a comedian in Portugal to complain about not being able to say things. When I hear it, it gives me a kind of itching in my teeth because I do not know any comedian in the days that run that has been silent, it can say everything-and it is up to the audience to say whether or not.”

This phrase was about Portugal. In 2025.

What said Kimmel

But after all, what did Jimmy Kimmel really said, who originated this whole process?

Said Charlie Kirk’s murder was “insensitive”, said he You will never realize who is applauding It’s crimes.

In another emission, he played with the Donald Trump’s reaction – When asked about Kirk’s death, the US president said he was very well and suggested to journalists to look at works they are doing in ballroom From the White House. “It is in the fourth phase of mourning: the construction,” described the humorist.

Before, he shot: “The gang MAGA [‘Make America Great Again’, movimento que apoia Trump] tried desperately characterize the type [Tyler Robinson] that murdered Charlie Kirk Like anything other than one of them, doing everything he could to get political gains. ”

It was this phrase that will have aroused the decision. Ana Cavalieri, commentator at, warned that on the day of the program concerned (Monday), it was already known that the shooter is not from the Maga Movement. The Federal Communications Commission of the USA will have understood that a rule has been violated: “Do not lie about criminal cases”.