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- Obama criticized the Trump administration in his response to ABC’s decision to take Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air.
- The former president said the Trump administration had taken “cancel culture” to “a new and dangerous level.”
- As conservatives celebrated ABC’s decision, scores of celebrities and politicians have voiced support for Kimmel.
Former President Barack Obama responded to ABC’s decision to indefinitely take Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air and warned of “government coercion.”
“After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like,” Obama said in a post on X.
“This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it,” he said in a response.
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