The Republican published in Truth Social in which he boasts of a series of changes in North American broadcasters and newspapers
The President of the United States, Donald Trumppublished this Saturday (14) an image in which boasts of a series of journalist layoffs and other changes he reportedly influenced in North American media.
The post on the Truth Social network has the title: “President Trump is reshaping the media”. In the image, the cut in funding from National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). Also mentioned are the mass layoffs of journalists no Washington Post ea departure of anchors critical of the Republicanlike Jim Acosta, formerCNNe Chuck Todd, ex-NBC.
Since taking office for his second term, Trump increased criticism and threats to the press in an attempt to influence the editorial line of the vehicles and obtain a favorable coverage for your government.
The image mentions, for example, the deal he made with the news channel ABC — who agreed to pay US$15 million to settle a lawsuit in which he was accused of defaming Trump — and a another with the CBS. The broadcaster was sued by the US president on charges of having edited an interview with former Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris in a manner favorable to the Democrat who was Trump’s opponent in the 2024 presidential election.
In addition to also making a million dollar payment, a CBS agreed to create the position of ombudsmana professional who mediates between the writing of a vehicle and the criticisms and suggestions from readers and viewers. The person chosen for the post was the former ambassador of the Trump administration to Japan.
Last year, U.S. President stated that broadcasters should have their broadcasting licenses revoked for being critical of him.
“I read somewhere that networks [de televisão] they were 97% against me again, 97% negative, and I still won and I won easily,” Trump said aboard Air Force One. “I would think maybe their licenses should be taken away. This will be up to Brendan Carr,” declared the Republican in September.
Carr is the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The work of the body, which supervises broadcasters, is also mentioned in the image published this Saturday by Trump.
The North American president has also expressly threatened to revoke the company’s licenses ABC and from NBCcomplaining about the channels’ coverage of his mandate. Trump said at the time, without providing evidence, that they would be a “political arm of the Democratic Party”.
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