Extortion is a thing. And by threatening to use the power of the federal government to make life difficult for license holders, he is quite literally doing something. Threats are actions themselves. And even if one wants to believe, against a preponderance of evidence, that SCOTUS will smack him down, the expense it takes to get to that point can drown a business. You know this. The threats matter.
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The Trump Administration rants about ABC News And NBC, Says They Should Lose FCC Licenses
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He wonders why nobody likes him or reports what he wants. He just keeps on attacking reporters. It's not how to win friends or influence people:
www.foxnews.com
Attacking reporters isn't going to change the fact that this is an unpopular war.
Trump scolds reporter as 'very obnoxious' over question on Air Force One, blasts 'most corrupt' ABC News
Trump scolded "a very obnoxious" reporter who attempted to ask about sending troops to the Middle East as part of the war with Iran and blasted ABC News as "corrupt" on Sunday.
Attacking reporters isn't going to change the fact that this is an unpopular war.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
"Dale Carnegie was a very nasty person with the wrong idea about winning friends and influencing people."
He doesn’t wonder. He weaves his own reality that for decades has been supported by an inner circle of sycophants who know how to manipulate him to obtain what they want.
To wonder and to have the self awareness people loathe you requires a level of self-awareness and modicum of intellect, neither of which he possesses.
The corollary should be that buttering them up does not produce fair or accurate reporting. It promotes becoming a propaganda arm of the administration.He just keeps on attacking reporters. It's not how to win friends or influence people:
Trump scolds reporter as 'very obnoxious' over question on Air Force One, blasts 'most corrupt' ABC News
Trump scolded "a very obnoxious" reporter who attempted to ask about sending troops to the Middle East as part of the war with Iran and blasted ABC News as "corrupt" on Sunday.
Attacking reporters isn't going to change the fact that this is an unpopular war.
But yet again, we are trying to apply normal motivations, behaviors and knowledge to a mentally unstable, sundowning sociopath.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
According to Merriam-Webster.com, the definition of treason is "the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offender owes allegiance or to kill or personally injure the sovereign or the sovereign's family."
Sorry, Mr. President, but "saying bad things about the war" hardly qualifies. But then, you are an idiot so I don't expect you to understand that.
FCC Commissioner Gomez says Carr's threats against broadcasters are baseless
Gomez noted the FCC has no broadcast license renewals scheduled until 2028, making enforcement unlikely.
thedesk.net
Here is a rebuttal by commissioner Anna Gomez related to the FCC threat.
Brendan Carr is Auditioning for a Conservative Cable News Job While Running the FCC
Carr isn't nearly as interested in running the FCC as he is in creating headlines and attention for himself.
barrettmedia.com
Then again, what do you expect from a government run by media stars? None of them want to do their jobs. They'd rather be entertainers.
Some for sure. Others are “true believers.” The quieter ones who are committed to the white supremacist, Christian nationalist movement are insidious. The media is letting them fly under the radar by focusing on the shiny objects as designed.Brendan Carr is Auditioning for a Conservative Cable News Job While Running the FCC
Carr isn't nearly as interested in running the FCC as he is in creating headlines and attention for himself.
Then again, what do you expect from a government run by media stars? None of them want to do their jobs. They'd rather be entertainers.
If "the media" is "letting them fly under the radar," then why is the president demanding their licenses be revoked????
If "the media" is doing what he wants, then why is he angry at them? He's suing the Wall Street Journal!
"The media" is not one thing. They don't act as a group. But the president and the FCC want to shut them all down. That's where the problem is.
There is so much lawlessness, greed, corruption and crime in this administration, it's literally impossible to keep up with all of it.
That's true but when a cabinet member resigns over how the war in Iran is handled. What happens now and how does Chairman Carr and Trump responds this breaking story. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/17/joe-kent-resigns-iran-war-00831187
He's not a cabinet member.
Because an irrational, narcissistic, sundowning imbecile?
The need to defend the press is comical at this point. Not every member of the administration is being trotted out (or choosing to trot themselves out) for appearance after appearance to sing dear leader’s praises. The ones who still wield substantial power but lurk more in the shadows are not getting attention commensurate with their danger. But no doubt we can be lectured about how the press is beyond criticism as an institution in 5…4…3…2…1…
And?
Ah there we are. Right on time.
They sure as hell act alike by and large. That’s the point.
Pssssssst….there is more than one problem. We have a multitude of interconnected and entangled problems that interact with each other.
Agreed completely.
Making a meaningful, sustained attempt would be a good start.
When you lump "the media" into one group, and blame them instead of the real problem, you're helping him, because you're both blaming the media.
It's extremely important. Every battle is important. As I've said, their power comes from the people. When the people object to having PBS or Jimmy Kimmel taken away from them, the people are doing what the media can't do.
No they don't. You're lying. There's a huge gap between Breitbart and MS Now. You treat them as one group, just like the president.
This president exists by dividing people. When the people unite against a common enemy, they win. When they fight amongst themselves over purity tests as you're doing, they lose.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
If you are going to comment on government, please have at least a rudimentary knowledge of civics.
Unless someone has "Secretary of ..." at the beginning of their title, they are not a cabinet member.
K.M. Richards
Program Director, The Eighties Channel™
As expected, Commissioner Gomez has issued a press release objecting to Carr's tactics:
It must irritate Carrtoon tremendously that there is an obligation for the Commission to post these officially.
It must irritate Carrtoon tremendously that there is an obligation for the Commission to post these officially.
We already covered this. We’re not going to post a table of every little org to appease your obsessive, reflexive defense of any criticism of media outlets. You already know we speak in broad generalities on large topics, as normal people do. Would saying it refers to the major broadcasters and cable outlets pacify this need?
I’m glad you find satisfaction in the role of media defender. That must be extremely comforting.
Won’t do. What the media won’t do.
Yeah, it’s a figment of our imagination that the top two network newscasts are nearly interchangeable every day save for the person doing the reading. The third was interchangeable, but is moving from just ignoring the danger to gaslighting us into saying it’s a good thing.
Sorry if the facts hurt. 🤷
Which listing of alphabet soup initials will soothe the tortured soul of someone who takes such great pride in defending media?
He exists by being a sociopath propped up by people who can manipulate him into doing what they desire.
There can be more than one enemy.
No idea where you’re conjuring up this “purity test” silliness. A bare minimal expectation of the mainstream media to not cave to the regime over and over and over is hardly a purity test. Though perhaps when one is hardwired to see no harm in anything those outlets do, those things can look alike.
Here is more fallout over Chairman Carrs rants about going after networks.
Kimmel Fires Back at Raging Trump’s ‘Late Night Morons’ Rant
The president continued to slam late-night TV as his administration fumes at coverage of the Iran war.
And a response by Jimmy Kimmel given his history with the Chairman when KABC-TV was targeted over a local TV license threat.
I'm done taking your bait on this. You're behaving in a way that's not very different from the president, and I'm going to treat it the same way.
Speaking of the president suing media organizations, he lost his appeal in the CNN lawsuit:
www.yahoo.com
Next stop, SCOTUS? Trump loses latest appellate step in his ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN
Federal judges, including ones appointed by Trump, keep ruling against his defamation suit.
What to know about the resignation of Joe Kent as Trump's counterterrorism chief
The Trump counterterrorism official who resigned Tuesday had been a staunch supporter of the president through his 2020 election defeat, the Jan. 6 riots and years of conservative media advocacy and failed congressional bids.
apnews.com
True it’s a former director of US National CounterTerrorism center in this update. All true here one wonders what happens when unfavorable reporting on Iran is coming from the inside how does the White House and the FCC reacts after they ranted about going after media outlets through license threats over this very issue.