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Trump has suffered a major political defeat.
https://signalpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/trump-just-suffered-major-political.htmlThere's no way around what is a very simple analysis of his choice to pick a battle with late night television host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel. Making a move to use his power as President of the United States to put pressure on ABC News to cancel Kimmel's show because of comments Kimmel made that basically told the truth about Charlie Kirk was a bad strategy all the way around.
Bowing to the pressure, ABC News contributed to the political disaster by cancelling Kimmel's show. Big mistake.
The public outcry against this unconscionable, unconstitutional, un-American, anti-patriotic act by a sitting President, and against the ownership of the ABC network, was monstrous. It did not take long for events to move forward as a result. It only took a relatively short amount of time for ABC's executive leadership to realize what a gigantic mistake it had made, and very likely calculating how much this was going to cost them, and reverse their decision.
This couldn't have turned out any worse for the President if his opposition had scripted it.
Kimmel returned to the airwaves, still cancelled by owners of television stations with a censorship mentality, but completely unable and ineffective in their effort to keep people from watching Kimmel. So on September 23, he delivered a well spoken defense of himself, and of his right to free speech under the constitution, along with a scathing, flattening rebuke of Trump, intentionally needling him with words chosen carefully to get more blowback that makes Trump look even more incompetent, illiterate and unhinged. All of this in front of a television audience much larger than he normally would have.
Bowing to the pressure, ABC News contributed to the political disaster by cancelling Kimmel's show. Big mistake.
The public outcry against this unconscionable, unconstitutional, un-American, anti-patriotic act by a sitting President, and against the ownership of the ABC network, was monstrous. It did not take long for events to move forward as a result. It only took a relatively short amount of time for ABC's executive leadership to realize what a gigantic mistake it had made, and very likely calculating how much this was going to cost them, and reverse their decision.
This couldn't have turned out any worse for the President if his opposition had scripted it.
Kimmel returned to the airwaves, still cancelled by owners of television stations with a censorship mentality, but completely unable and ineffective in their effort to keep people from watching Kimmel. So on September 23, he delivered a well spoken defense of himself, and of his right to free speech under the constitution, along with a scathing, flattening rebuke of Trump, intentionally needling him with words chosen carefully to get more blowback that makes Trump look even more incompetent, illiterate and unhinged. All of this in front of a television audience much larger than he normally would have.
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Until Kimmel returns.
We can punch back at Sinclair and Nexstar.
Which was TSF's own staff's fault, BTW.
