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.
His tweets read like Donald Trump putting his own words into an LLM that edits text to sound like Donald Trump. Like he typed his normal nonsense into ChatGPT and said “make it sound smart but still like Donald Trump.”
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.”
But he was put there by Trump, so he’ll do it. Just like all these other agencies.
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.
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.
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.
Cluster B personality disorders, specifically Narcissistic types, aren’t keen on truth, they create their own “truth” and gaslight anyone who contradicts that personal “truth”. Allegedly.
Cluster B, both borderline and narcissistic types, fear exposure of who and what they really are at baseline. The difference is a borderline will turn that anger and madness inward, possibly to the point of self harm and suicide, while the narcissistic type will turn that anger and vitriol at the source of potential or real exposure of truth. Allegedly.
It gets even weirder: a narcissists sense of reality checking is impaired such that they are unable to accept facts that contradict their viewpoint. If their statements/opinions collide with reality, they dismiss it as they hold themselves above reality. They don’t / can’t learn as this would imply there are gaps in their knowledge and whoever is the messenger of such contradicting facts will incur wrath to allow them to heal, no matter how tactful this is brought to them. Narcissists don’t lie (in their mind) and this is akin to something like psychosis or delusion. This is different from psychopaths who are aware of their lies but the motivation differs in that a psychopath does it for external gain (to obtain a goal) whereas narcissists do this for internal gains (so called narcissists supply - feeding the ego). One could speculate that a narcissistic autocrat and his followers (Trump and MAGAs) suffer from shared psychosis.
This explains so much Trump. Thank you.
The real pity is as damaging as narcissistic personality disorder is, few get treatment because they’re just sane enough most of the time to not be institutionalized, even temporarily.
Vs borderlines who get there by virtue of suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, and self harm.
The real damage of using OCD, ADHD, and narcissist outside of truly diagnosable situations has no doubt been realized in the complete absence of recognition in the present political climate. So now we have a social movement based on one narcissist’s self constructed reality. Allegedly.
Narcissists don’t seek treatment as this would imply they’re imperfect, however destructive their lives are. On the other hand we don’t force treatment on people unless they are an immediate physical threat to someone or themselves. Another aspect, you alluded to, is culture. In the west, especially the US there is a reverence toward these types of behaviour that are in line of the traits seen with overt narcissists. Kind of a positive feedback loop wherein these types filter towards the top of whatever organisation. I believe Musk is narcissistic aswell, and I doubt he is truly autistic. (I think he is self diagnosed, and normally I refrain from gatekeeping, however, I believe he is self aware enough to figure something is different about him and he mistakenly attributed these aberrations in his personality for autism instead of narcissism - I might be wrong though.) Having these two characters in power does not bode well for our civilisation. It makes me nauseous to think that they themselves are unable to recognise the destruction they are bringing onto the world.
This next statement is not intended as disparaging to anyone diagnosed with autism. I do think there are some individuals who will disparage autistic individuals by using a self diagnosis of autism as an excuse for crappy behavior.
Remember, if the Behind the Bastards journalist is to be believed, Elon grew up without friends. That experience alone may account for some the aberrant behavior we see.
I’ve been in two abusive relationships as an adult. Two years with a woman who I’m pretty sure had BPD. Five years with a man who hits all the markers for NPD. This tracks, based on my anecdotal experience.
Guys why are you talking bad about the supreme leader? He’ll arrest you and starve your family.
Off to the Salvadoran concentration camp with those filthy wokist terrorists!
I’ve heard it called, El Azkaban. Catchy.
Gotta watch out or the dementors will get cha.
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!
Trump: 60 Minutes is all lies and hate!
Faux News: Yeah, that’s our thing!
“They are not a ‘News Show,’ but a dishonest Political Operative simply disguised as ‘News’”
Shocked pikachu used “projecting”
Hitler was notorious for his temper tantrums. He is confirmed to have watched Charlie Chaplin’s iconic 1940 film ‘Thr Great Dictator’ but never said or wrote what he thought of it. Charlie Chaplin said that he would have given anything to know what he thought of it.
Trump is born almost exactly 1 year later after hitlers death coincidence? Reincarnation baby, no quick saves.
The CIA must have operation paper clipped Hitler’s soul.
Something must have happened in the process though, at least Hitler was halfway competent.
Well when you respond missing half your brain
The allied forces explicitly decided not to try assassinating Hitler. They were worried someone more competent would take his place.
Not really, he wasn’t. The myth of Nazi/fascist competence comes from a combination of propaganda and “right time, right place” in terms of when they took the reins of the German economy. A kind of funny example that isn’t Nazis, but their contemporary fascists, Mussolini’s Italian regime damaged the on-time performance of trains in Italy, but the regime kept saying the trains were running on time to the point where it’s become a whole saying about excusing fascism because of its competence/results (“at least the trains run on time”).
Straight up, the dude has been the beneficiary of the most dick-riding post-humous propaganda ever, second maybe only to Robert E. Lee or Jeff Davis.
Oh, so it’s like “at least eggs are cheaper”? Neat
It’s effective. If you listen to interviews where people give reasons they voted for mango Mussolini, it’s invariably something he declared regardless of reality or evidence.
It shouldn’t take much listening to the guy to realize everything he says is BS but apparently some people only hear what they want to, and take that as fact
Maybe they just showed him the same cut as in Iron Sky (2012). It would be amazin if that joke was that deep.
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).
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
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
What could this guy do that could be illegal and punishable? What?
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!
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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
