The president snapped after watching a TV show he didn’t like and said CBS should lose its license.
Donald Trump on Sunday called for “maximum fines and punishment” against CBS and its corporate parent, Paramount, over Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” broadcast.
In two separate posts on his Truth Social website, Trump complained about the show’s interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris last year ― which he is suing the company over ― and railed against Sunday night’s reports on Greenland and the war in Ukraine.
“This is why we can’t elect women to power! They are too emotionally unstable and we’ll be in WW3 within a month!”
-Sexist chuds
Yeah, about that…
Yep, thank God A WOMAN doesn’t have the nuclear codes. Just imagine how scary that would be.
That’s because, for some reason, people don’t treat anger like an emotion
Or rather they consider anger to be an emotion of strength, rather than one of fear
*male anger. Angry women are still emotional and hysterical.
Does anyone else remember when “senile old man yells at the TV” wasn’t relevant political news*? I do. Can we please go back to those times?
Oh, pre-2016, how I miss you.
(It’s relevant because he has toadies in place to enforce his insane whims).
I remember when hearing from the president was special and they would prepare a statement or speech. It made news because it was important and rare.
Now it’s a multiple times a day occurrence of verbal diarrhea.
“But his tan suit!!!1”
She wore a tan suit too
When people stop electing them into positions of massive power then yes, we can stop talking about them.
Except trump admitted the election was rigged.
Yeah, quit with the “fair & square” bullshit, it was rigged and we ALL know it.
And we’ve never really seen that go anywhere.
- with lack of well known evidence, I assume that there is no evidence of widespread direct fraud
- but we know there was voter suppression in many states. Why haven’t I seen anything about the impact of that?
- and we know there was vote buying, in any sane world, someone would be in jail already
Softest President of all time. Like wet paper.
He’s as strong and resilient as a fart in the wind!
Fun Fact:
In British English, “Trump” means the same as “fart” (and has done for over 100 years):“(intransitive) British slang to expel intestinal gas through the anus” Collins English Dictionary
“to release gas from the bowels through the bottom”
Cambridge English Dictionary“slang or colloquial. The act of breaking wind audibly”
Oxford English DictionaryThat time Taskmaster was trying to figure out who’d done a little trump on camera upon seeing a taxidermy chicken
I’d not seen that outtake! Thank you, it was hilarious :)
President Shart.
Wait! Lemme take a pictu- awwww… It’s gone…
I’d call him President Wetwipe, but those are actually useful.
and wet wipes don’t dissolve
They can both clog a toilet.
Or build up in the sewer with shit and grease. President Fatberg.
He’s so moist.
He’s 10 ply. Soft AF.
He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the position by Trump, to deliver “substantial” penalties to the network for what he called “unlawful and illegal behavior.”
“CBS is out of control, at levels never seen before, and they should pay a big price for this,” he wrote.
In Trump’s mind, saying something he doesn’t want you to say is “unlawful and illegal”. And since both Congress and the Supreme Court have decided that he is never wrong, and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial, that is the de facto reality.
We really need him to produce a chart of these levels he’s talking about, for the sake of comedy.
But the levels can never be seen.
Touché
I assume the levels fall within an energy frequency not detectable by the normal human retina, thus making any such visual representation meaningless to us mere mortals.
Many such levels.
“…at levels never seen before”
its over 9000!
or...
8000 if you’re og. so tired of the maga dumbz.
60 minutes: “…this one goes up to 11.”
law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial
This is fucked up and it’s terrifying that’s the new reality
and law enforcement now operates by kidnapping people and trafficking them into life imprisonment and slavery without trial
Oh, honey. You don’t think those people are still alive, do you?
Realistically, we don’t know, because the point is for them to disappear. Historically this has tended to mean people get killed.
How would you know if they’re dead or alive if they disappeared? They’re Schroedinger’s Political Prisoners, perfect for plausible deniablity.
“We don’t know if they’re dead. They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know.”
They could be living wonderful lives in a tropical paradise, and they just dont want to share, you don’t know."
Like Whitman, Price, and Hadad. You remember them‽
They’re saying that Maryland guy is still alive.
Ahem, “Pics or it didn’t happen.”
Don’t worry I’m sure we’ll get them soon, their top prompt writers are all over it.
Just need ai image generation to advance enough that the Live Photo doesn’t have 6 fingers
I hate this man so much.
“Man”? “Ogre”, or “Demon” or “Beast” or “AntiChrist” or many other epithets for evil beings are far more appropriate to refer to HitlerBeast.
Nice, Ive been calling him HitlerPig, ever since I read that was the favored name by younger staffers in the Biden White House. I found it simulateously vicious, hilarious, and accurate, so it’s become my go-to name in print.
This guy has himself surrounded by yes men and is locked into his own disinformation bubble for most of the time. Getting a glimpse of what people who aren’t kissing his ass really are thinking about him must have been quite the whiplash for his tiny sick mind to take.
I watch 60 Minutes regularly. Mostly the mainstream media is way too easy on this administration. While this wasn’t some crushing indictment, I can see why Trump was unhappy about it. And Zelenskyy was being super diplomatic. I know deep down he just wants to tell Trump to go fuck himself.
Trump is a BIG STRONG MAN and as Someone who Defends Mass School Shooters because of the Constitution I AGREE with Him about News Stations LOSING Their Licenses if they HURT his Feefees!
We need to protect these 60 minutes people. They’re very brave and patriotic. We owe them protection for their service to America right now
“They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News,’ and must be responsible for what they have done, and are doing,” the president wrote.
Isn’t this clown being sued by the same firm that sued Fox “News” and won?
Endless reports of Trump melting down. Nothing about real news or change.
So sick of seeing that cheetoh-face dim-wit puppet. Dreaming of times when we never see it again.
Trump needs to be removed from office and we should be out in the streets calling for nothing less
We were on the fifth & will be again on the nineteenth.
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He urged FCC Chair Brendan Carr, who was named to the position by Trump, to deliver “substantial” penalties to the network for what he called “unlawful and illegal behavior.”
FCC: “No.”
Yeah, but only because “CBS” doesn’t have a broadcast license, stations do.
Also, cable TV doesn’t use “broadcast licenses”, and IPTV & streaming certainly don’t.
A lot of what Trump does makes sense when you realize his brain ossified in 1982.
A lot of what Trump does makes sense when you realize his brain ossified in 1982.
If that were true he wouldn’t be such a fanboy for Russia. He didn’t become an asset for them until 1987.
Couldn’t they put penalties on all individual stations broadcasting CBS?
Effectively forcing them to stop broadcasting?
I’m curious because I like a lot of shows on CBS. Though I watch it on cable which you are saying is not regulated by the FCC?
It’s not that the FCC doesn’t regulate cable, it’s that cable doesn’t have broadcast licenses. No spectrum license to revoke.
The path to regulating a cable TV channel is not a straightforward one in the US. If it was, cable news a la Fox would have been in the crosshairs devades ago.
But he was put there by Trump, so he’ll do it. Just like all these other agencies.
You mean the FCC chair that has recently taken to wearing a pin with Trump’s fat fucking face on it? I think you mean…
FCC: Sure thing, bossman.
Blatant threats of government retaliation against private citizens.
Clear violation of the First Amendment.
And nothing will happen.
Fuck Trump.
Well, technically the first amendment only affects Congress. Should be a slam dunk case for Trump with this Supreme Court.
I feel like something you said is inaccurate. I feel like the Bill of Rights protects all people from all branches of the government.
Here is the text for your own interpretation:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Damn, the Framers were really confident we wouldn’t bork up this badly, weren’t they?
They were pretty optimistic, I’d say.
The more I read through the Federalist Papers and others, I am forced to agree. A lot of ideology, not a lot of logical follow-through.
“maximum fines and punishment”
Sure. Those are both 0, jackass.
He should just go ahead and have that stroke he’s been foreshadowing for years.
Science will later tell us he was having a 60-year-long stroke. Ironically, the “greatest” stroke of all time.
This week on The Americans, they discover that they elected the old man who yells at the TV! Hilarity ensues when he chucks the remote and breaks the screen then goes on a wacky adventure to buy another TV under the new tariffs!
