Trump Claims Excessive Criticism of Him on TV Is ‘Illegal’ and ‘No Longer Free Speech’

Michael Luciano Sep 19th, 2025, 5:54 pm

President Donald Trump claimed that beyond a certain point, criticism of him on television networks is “illegal” and “no longer free speech.”

On Friday, Trump took questions from reporters in the Oval Office, where Jeff Mason of Reuters asked about the ongoing fallout after Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week, which culminated in ABC’s suspension of after Jimmy Kimmel appeared to suggest, erroneously, that Kirk’s assassin is a conservative.

“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them,” Kimmel said on Monday’s show.

“Do you see

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