President Donald Trump appears to be unhappy with Seth Meyers, apparently due to the late-night host recently mocking him. Over the weekend, Trump called for Meyers to be fired, and Trump’s FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, seems to have backed his sentiment.
“NBC’s Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his “show” is a Ratings DISASTER,” Trump wrote on his social platform Truth Social on Saturday. “Aside from everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!”
Earlier in the month, Trump claimed on Truth Social that Meyers had “NO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!”
While it’s unclear what specifically prompted Trump to want Meyers fired, last week, Meyers repeatedly joked about Trump during his monologues. He recently mocked Trump over how his administration has been responding to the batch of Jeffrey Epstein emails released Wednesday, in which Epstein stated that Trump “knew about the girls” in Epstein’s sex trafficking case. Meyers also recently joined other late-night hosts in roasting Trump’s decision to knock down the East Wing of the White House.
On Saturday, shortly after Trump called for Meyers’ dismissal, Carr took to X to repost Trump’s message. While he did not provide additional comment, it follows Carr’s previous threat against fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, which preceded Kimmel’s temporary suspension.
On Sept. 17, Kimmel was pulled “indefinitely” from the air on ABC and its Nexstar and Sinclair affiliates after Kimmel made comments on Jimmy Kimmel Live! about Charlie Kirk’s assassin. Earlier that day, Carr called on licensed broadcasters to stop airing Kimmel’s show. “I think that it’s really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, ‘Listen, we are going to preempt, we are not going to run Kimmel anymore, until you straighten this out because we, we licensed broadcaster, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion,’” Carr said in an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.
Kimmel returned to the air on Sept. 23.
Love Music?
Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian/New Zealand music and globally.
From Rolling Stone US
