US President Donald Trump said yesterday that broadcasting licences used by affiliates of Walt Disney’s ABC should be ‘taken away’ after he disagreed with a question posed by a reporter for the network.
Trump made the comment after a reporter for ABC News asked Trump about the Jeffrey Epstein political scandal during an Oval Office event with the Saudi Crown Prince.
“I think the licence should be taken away from ABC, because your news is so fake and it’s so wrong,” Trump said.
Trump praised Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, whom he had tapped to lead the agency in January.
“He should look at that,” Trump said of removing the licences.
Carr visited with Trump in Florida this weekend, according to a social media post from Carr.
It was the second time in recent months that ABC has been in Trump’s cross-hairs.
Trump in September praised Carr after he pressured broadcasters to take ABC late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel off air after Kimmel made comments about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Trump also suggested that broadcasters’ licences should be taken away.
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