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OPINION: President Donald Trump seems wished to usage nan afloat unit of nan White House to unit Disney and ABC to cancel Jimmy Kimmel’s talk show complete jokes he told days earlier nan White House Correspondents’ Dinner. In this morning’s missive, Trump warned action amended beryllium taken soon, this aft nan FCC triggered a reappraisal of ABC position licenses complete Kimmel.
One has to wonder, then, what benignant of scrutiny will beryllium directed toward Jeff Bezos‘ Amazon if nan Wall Street Journal’s scoop past nighttime is meticulous that they want to revive The Apprentice with Donald Trump Jr arsenic host?
Kimmel, whose nightly monologues person focused almost exclusively connected berating nan president, has recovered himself connected nan receiving extremity of MAGA scorn doubly now. The first came aft nan assassination of Charlie Kirk, and nan latest is complete comments Kimmel made days earlier this latest shooting incident, that Melania Trump bore nan “glow of an expectant widow.”
These seemingly ray successful comparison to nan barbed societal media and tv appearances attributed to Don Jr., who was portion of nan reality show The Apprentice erstwhile his begetter hosted. The 1 that keeps flashing successful my mind successful nan existent telephone to ratchet down nan incendiary rhetoric was Don Jr’s guidance to nan adjacent fatal 2022 location penetration onslaught connected Paul Pelosi, hubby of past House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. A deranged intruder, bent connected harming nan Speaker, alternatively attacked Paul Pelosi successful their San Francisco home, and fractured his skull pinch a hammer.
Don Jr.’s societal media station depicted a brace of underwear and a hammer, expressing that Trump Jr had recovered his Paul Pelosi Halloween costume (the 82-year aged Pelosi happened to beryllium successful his underwear erstwhile he heard and confronted nan assailant successful nan wee hours of nan morning).
On abstracted occasions, Trump Jr. has compared transgender group to terrorists and made different polarizing comments. Will it matter?
There is precedent for TV personalities having to reply for boorish comments made connected societal media and connected television. Longtime Jeopardy producer Mike Richards was fired only 1 time aft being named arsenic imperishable replacement for nan precocious Alex Trebek, aft podcast remarks he made astir a decade earlier resurfaced. Richards had made disparaging comments astir women’s bodies and out-of-bounds sermon connected Jewish and Asian people, arsenic good arsenic small group and nan mentally disabled.
Amazon has not confirmed nan WSJ study astir exploratory talks to revive The Apprentice and make Trump Jr host, and it is not clear if Trump Jr. is moreover successful nan loop. But a cordial narration pinch proprietor Jeff Bezos and nan Trump White House continues to germinate that mightiness make a skeptic wonderment if it would make immoderate difference.
If nan WSJ study is accurate, it will beryllium a trial of nan cordial narration betwixt Amazon’s Bezos and nan Trump Clan. Bezos and woman were among those who conscionable attended nan State Dinner for King Charles. This aft Bezos reportedly killed a planned endorsement of Trump’s force Kamala Harris successful nan Washington Post, and aft Amazon paid a reported $40 cardinal for nan documentary Melania. In its study past night, nan WSJ said 70% of that movie money went straight to nan First Lady. Stay tuned.
Here is really SNL’s Weekend Update covered Trump’s Pelosi post:
