Barack Obama Reacts To Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Says Media Companies Need To "Start Standing Up" To Trump Team's

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“Dangerous” Cancel Culture

Former President Barack Obama weighed in on ABC’s decision to pull Jimmy Kimmel from its schedule indefinitely, warning that the Trump administration has taken cancel culture to “a new and dangerous level.”

On X, Obama posted, “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”

“This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.”

Link to tweet

On Wednesday, ABC said that Kimmel’s show would be off the air indefinitely. That came hours after FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened the network and its stations that he would take some kind of action unless steps were taken. Carr had blasted a remark that Kimmel made during his monologue on Monday, when he said, “We had 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 with everything they can to score political points from it.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/barack-obama-reacts-jimmy-kimmel-142505971.html

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1. Maddowblog-As Trump's abuses worsen, it seems Obama is increasingly fired up and ready to go

With increasing frequency, the former Democratic president is re-entering the political arena in unexpected and unsubtle ways.

In the spring, Barack Obama seemed to dip his toes into the political arena waters.

This week, as he dives in headfirst, I can’t help but get the impression that this guy is fired up and ready to go. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-09-18T17:23:10.100Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trumps-abuses-worsen-seems-obama-increasingly-fired-ready-go-rcna232178

When thinking about Donald Trump’s most prominent and most vocal Democratic critics, Barack Obama does not immediately come to mind. That, however, is starting to change.....

In September, the former Democratic president seems even more fired up. NBC News reported:

Former President Barack Obama on Tuesday condemned the assassination of Charlie Kirk and the spate of political violence that has gripped the country while rebuking President Donald Trump and his allies’ for politicizing the shooting and not doing more to unite the country.

At the Jefferson Educational Society’s global summit in Pennsylvania, the Democrat did not mention Trump by name. He also didn’t have to: Obama drew sharp enough contrasts that were entirely unsubtle.

Obama: We have to recognize that on both sides there are people who are extremists 

But I will say that those extreme views were not in my White House. I wasn’t embracing them. I wasn’t empowering them. I wasn’t putting the weight of the government behind extremist views.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T20:01:20.240Z

.....For good measure, Obama condemned Charlie Kirk’s slaying as “horrific and a tragedy,” and categorically rejected the very idea of political violence, calling it “anathema to what it means to be a democratic country.” He also made it clear that he found some of the late conservative activist’s ideas abhorrent.

Obama: So we have to extend to people during their period of mourning

We can also at the same time say I disagree with the idea that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a mistake


I can disagree with the suggestion that my wife or Justice Jackson does not have adequate brain processing power.

— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) 2025-09-17T20:01:08.560Z

......Just two days before the end of his presidency, Obama hosted a White House press conference in which he said he expected the Trump administration and congressional Republicans to make their own determinations about the nation’s direction — and, by and large, he intended to stay out of it.

Obama acknowledged at the time, however, that there might be exceptions to the rule. “There’s a difference,” the outgoing president explained, “between that normal functioning of politics and certain issues or certain moments where I think our core values may be at stake.”

Nearly nine years later, I can’t help but get the feeling that Obama sees our core values in jeopardy with increasing frequency.

I am so glad that President Obama is getting involved. I love the fact that trump and the MAGA idiots are upset by President Obama making comments and arguments

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4. TY LMPV for this on Pres Obama!

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3. Mahalo for Pres Obama!

Thanks Obama!

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5. Seems like it's about 6 months too late, I hope I'm wrong

The more this happens, the more bending the knee looks like a reflex.