Jimmy Kimmel: "A government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn't like is anti-American."

Jimmy Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can't take a joke."

Jimmy Kimmel: "He did his best to cancel me, instead he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly. He might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now."

Jimmy Kimmel: "Brendan Carr, the Chairman of the FCC, telling an American company 'We can do this the easy way or the hard way...Take action on Kimmel or there's going to be additional work for the FCC,' [is a direct violation of the First Amendment."

Jimmy Kimmel: "This show is not important. What's important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

Jimmy Kimmel: "Our government cannot be allowed to control what we do and do not say on television. We have to stand up to it."

Jimmy Kimmel: "I want to thank the people who don't support my show and what I believe but support my right to share those beliefs anyways—Ben Shapiro, Clay Travis, Candace Owens, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz...It takes courage to speak out against this administration."

Jimmy Kimmel: "I'm not sure who had a weirder 48 hours, me or the CEO of Tylenol."

Joe Rogan: "With this Jimmy Kimmel thing, if you let this happen, it's gonna be able to happen with something you agree with. If you're a person on the right who's happy that he's getting pulled....you don't want it to happen this way, kids."

Joe Rogan: "If the government tried to silence Jimmy Kimmel because they were trying to push through some sort of merger and [Trump] doesn't like Jimmy Kimmel, that should be exposed."

Joe Rogan: "I definitely don't think that the government should be involved ever in dictating what a comedian can or cannot say in a monologue — that's fucking crazy!"

"If these tariffs continue to go on, it will cost Washington State 25,000 jobs."

Trump today: "Let us defend free speech." Attorney General Pam Bondi last week: "There's free speech and then there's hate speech...We will absolutely target you, go after you, if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

@greggnunziata.bsky.social "We must defend our inheritance of liberty under law against all who threaten it."

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr used to preach about destroying "the censorship cartel" and restoring free speech. Now he's threatening broadcasters: "We can do this the easy way or the hard way...Take action on Kimmel or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

NEW: @greggnunziata.bsky.socialata.bsky.social "This moment calls for a robust, unapologetic, sustained defense of the rule of law in America."

Howard Stern: "When the government says 'I'm not pleased with you, so we're gonna orchestrate a way to silence you,' it's the wrong direction for our country...Someone's gotta step up and fucking say 'Hey, enough! We're not gonna bow.'"

Sen. Mullin: "Jimmy Kimmel said something that was extremely insensitive...There is a thin line between free speech and when it crosses a line and causes violence." Gov. Shapiro: "It is a long way to go to say a comedian on late night TV who tells a joke...incites violence."

Gov. Josh Shapiro: "To see freedom of speech being undermined by the long arm of the federal government is extremely dangerous...To fire someone because he told a joke about the president that the president didn't like...is dangerous."

Rep. Don Bacon: "I should speak up...Tariffs aren't working. With coffee, I went to buy coffee...and it was up $4, the bag that I buy. That's not success."

Rep. Don Bacon on tariffs: "We just heard yesterday from a company we have that makes wind combines that they're moving all their to Europe because the tariffs are too high...That's hundreds of jobs. Iowa and Nebraska are really struggling."

Stephen Miller in February: Trump has ended the weaponization of government and targeting of political opponents with lawfare. Stephen Miller now: We will bring RICO charges against left-wing political organizations.

Trump in 2024: I will end the weaponization of government and never use the Justice Department to go after my political opponents. Trump now:  I've asked the Attorney General to bring RICO charges against my political opponents.

Pam Bondi in January: "I believe in the freedom of speech...I will not target people simply because of their political affiliation." Pam Bondi now: "There's free speech, and then there's hate speech...We will absolutely target you...if you are targeting anyone with hate speech."

Tim Dillon: "You can correct the record without destroying someone's ability to speak...Everybody thinking that Jimmy Kimmel being removed and indefinitely suspended from ABC means you are winning, you are a fool."

Tim Dillon on Jimmy Kimmel: "You can't think it's a great idea that the Chairman of the FCC...pressures affiliates to drop a show because a guy said something the President of the United States doesn't like."

Tim Dillon: "It's happened in other countries...Hungary and Viktor Orbán...Putin. Nobody wants to live in a country where a late night comedian is subject to removal because he says something that the President of the United States doesn't like."

JD Vance campaigned against cancel culture. Now he's encouraging Americans to snitch on their neighbors for wrong speak: "Call their employer!"

Candace Owens: "The Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, jumped up and he criticized Jimmy Kimmel's remarks. He threatened federal action against ABC affiliates who carried the show. What?.. It's completely wrong and it's completely crazy."

Candace Owens: " Pam Bondi, who is a complete loser and a tool, is trying to use the assassination of Charlie Kirk to lay the groundwork for hate speech laws in America.. .They wanna pass speech laws which will give them the full power to go after you for wrong think."

“There is now a coordinated assault on the constitutional architecture that has sustained American democracy.”

Vance: "Are we willing to defend people even if we disagree with what they say? If you're not willing to do that, I don't think you're fit to lead." (March 2025)

Trump promised to protect freedom of speech and ban government censorship. He lied.

MMA fighter Sean Strickland: "The FCC overstepped with Jimmy Kimmel. He didn't get canceled. ABC was threatened by FCC Chair appointed by Trump on a podcast Fuck Jimmy Kimmel but the government shouldn't be used as a political weapon."

Stephen Colbert: "This whole thing is the latest and boldest action in a long campaign against media critics. Trump has personally sued ABC, CBS, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Des Moines Register, and his bathroom scale."

Stephen Colbert: "Nexstar has a major merger coming up before the Trump administration. A company apparently capitulating to the whims of the president in order to ensure their merger goes through? Has that ever happened before? I'm being told not to answer that question."

Stephen Colbert: "FCC Chair and individually wrapped hard-boiled egg that they sell at the airport, Brendan Carr...is telling [ABC] to punish Kimmel or else. It feels to me like shutting down this kind of speech represents a serious threat to our freedoms."

Stephen Colbert: "After threats from Trump's FCC chair, ABC yanked Jimmy Kimmel off the air indefinitely. That is blatant censorship...With an autocrat, you can't give an inch. If ABC thinks this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naïve."

Akaash Singh: "This has nothing to do with what happened to Charlie Kirk. That's a fucking horrendous thing. Let's get that out of the way. But in terms of censorship, freedom of speech is more under attack now, honestly, than I think it has ever been."

Stephen A. Smith: "I am incredibly alarmed about what appears to be our First Amendment rights being attacked...I'm alarmed by it. I'm scared of it."

Sarah Matthews: "I believe in the Constitution and the First Amendment, and we are seeing it under siege right now—whether it's Jimmy Kimmel, or Trump suing the WSJ and the NYT... Republicans need to grow a backbone and speak out against it, but I'm not gonna hold my breath."

Sarah Matthews: "The Trump Administration's actions fly in the face of Charlie Kirk's legacy...Republicans are supposed to be against weaponizing government and against cancel culture; but that is exactly what we're seeing play out right now."

Sarah Matthews: "Caving will only get you so far. When it comes to MAGA, everything is never enough." newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/the-monume...

"This isn’t about the truth, it’s about punishing Trump’s political enemies." newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/the-monume...

Sarah Matthews: "I'm not surprised by the power grab by Donald Trump and his administration, but I have been surprised by the capitulation...whether it's media companies, big tech oligarchs, law firms, you name it....We, the people, have to be the ones fighting back."

NEW: "Trump is actually stifling free speech, weaponizing government power to directly silence a political opponent."

“The power ultimately lies with the people, and as a country we must decide whether we will defend our Constitution or let it fall.”

Joe Rogan on Donald Trump's birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein: "Very odd stuff. The 'Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?'...If one of my friends sent me that, I'm getting a new number...What the fuck is wrong with you? Enigma?"

“Now that he’s back in power, Trump’s showing us just how anti-veteran he can be.” newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/i-fought-c...

JD Vance: "Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people...Under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square." (Feb. 2025)