Assessment on Trump confidants
Kimmel’s US talk show for the time being sold for Kirk expressions
In the United States, after the assassination attempt on Trump’s familiar Kirk, a debate about public statements and freedom of expression rages. Now the furor is fatal to one of the best known late night talkers.
The US broadcaster ABC will initially take off the talk show by the prominent television presenter Jimmy Kimmel after his statements about the attack on the right activist Charlie Kirk. The program will no longer be broadcast “in the foreseeable future”, ABC said. The step was justified by Kimmel’s statements about the confidante of US President Donald Trump. Which words the decision -makers took off was left open. Trump was pleased to comment on her decision and demanded that further shows to be discontinued by unpleasant moderators.
Kimmel had recently suggested in his show that the alleged assassin Tyler Robinson may have been part of the so-called Maga movement of the US President. The abbreviation stands for “Make America Great Again”.
“Insulting and insensitive”
“Mr. Kimmel’s comments on Mr. Kirk’s death are insulting and insensitive in a critical phase of our national political discourse,” said the production company of the program “Jimmy Kimmel Live! communicate. Whether the show will be resumed is questionable in the face of the heated mood in the USA.
In the United States, a bitter argument rages about how to express Kirks, whose sometimes extremely conservative views were controversial. Trump and his government have announced that they are against commentators who, in their opinion, do not adequately comment on the 31-year-olds shot in the state of Utah. Critics consider it extremely questionable that freedom of press and expression fall by the wayside.
The American late night shows have been under particular pressure on the CBS broadcaster since the dismantling of the also prominent talk master Stephen Colbert. Trump always made it clear that in addition to Colbert, Kimmel was a thorn in the side of him. The US talkers make fun of the US President and his authoritarian tendencies in pointed and partly more such and thus form an important counterweight to the politically one-sided communication of the White House in the eyes of many observers.
Trump rejoices: “Great news for America”
“Great news for America,” Trump commented on the personnel on his Truth Social platform. “Congratulations to ABC that they finally had the courage to do what had to be done.” The president also targeted the remaining comedians Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, whom he called “two total failures”. The broadcaster NBC must now follow and also drop their shows. Trumps formulated it as a clear request: “Do it, nbc !!!”
Hardly anyone attacked the Republican with a sharper mockery as Kimmel, Colbert and other talkers such as Meyers, Fallon and John Oliver. With their comedic tips, they unearthed political false claims and populist absurdities of the government more direct than any news program. The shows use their greater freedoms compared to soberly formulating news journalists, emphasize subjectively and do not hold back linguistically.
Unlike most news moderators, in this context, for example, they do not speak of “untruths”, but of “lies”, not of “bizarre appearances”, but “embarrassment”. From their aversion to Trump and his government methods, Kimmel and Co. make no secret. Trump personally takes such criticism and tries to bring critically reporting media on the government line with legal means that not only the latest billion-dollar lawsuit against the “New York Times” shows.
Not just US media in sight
But US media professionals are not the only ones who are in trouble as a result of Charlie Kirk’s death and the debate about commenting on the assassination. The ZDF journalist Elmar Theveßen, who works as a correspondent in Washington, also got under fire – among other things because of comments about Kirk and criticism of Trump’s deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller. Trump-confidante Richard Grenell, formerly stationed as a US ambassador in Berlin, then described Theveßen as “left-wing radical” and demanded that he to withdraw the visa.
The ZDF briefly replied that the statements are taken to know – and “the work of Elmar Theveßen is protected by the freedom of the press”. It is a high asset in Germany and in the USA.
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Source: Stern
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