{"id":139083,"date":"2025-11-17T06:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/139083\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T06:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T06:53:07","slug":"trump-calls-for-nbc-to-fire-seth-meyers-in-post-fcc-chair-shares-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/139083\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Calls for NBC to Fire Seth Meyers in Post, FCC Chair Shares It"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPresident Donald Trump<\/a> appears to be unhappy with Seth Meyers<\/a>, apparently due to the late-night host recently mocking him. Over the weekend, Trump called for Meyers to be fired, and Trump\u2019s FCC chairman, Brendan Carr<\/a>, seems to have backed his sentiment.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNBC\u2019s Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). He was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his \u201cshow\u201d is a Ratings DISASTER,\u201d Trump wrote<\/a> on his social platform Truth Social on Saturday. \u201cAside from everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tEarlier in the month, Trump claimed<\/a> on Truth Social that Meyers had \u201cNO TALENT, NO RATINGS, 100% ANTI TRUMP, WHICH IS PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile it\u2019s unclear what specifically prompted Trump to want Meyers fired, last week, Meyers repeatedly joked about Trump during his monologues. He recently mocked Trump<\/a> over how his administration has been responding to the batch of Jeffrey Epstein emails released Wednesday, in which Epstein stated that Trump \u201cknew about the girls<\/a>\u201d in Epstein\u2019s sex trafficking case. Meyers also recently joined other late-night hosts in roasting Trump\u2019s decision<\/a> to knock down the East Wing of the White House.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Saturday, shortly after Trump called for Meyers\u2019 dismissal, Carr took to X<\/a> to repost Trump\u2019s message. While he did not provide additional comment, it follows Carr\u2019s previous threat<\/a> against fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, which preceded Kimmel\u2019s temporary suspension. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sept. 17, Kimmel was pulled \u201cindefinitely\u201d from the air on ABC and its Nexstar and Sinclair affiliates after Kimmel made comments on\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live!\u00a0about Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassin. Earlier that day, Carr called on<\/a>\u00a0licensed broadcasters to stop airing Kimmel\u2019s show. \u201cI think that it\u2019s really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast and Disney and say, \u2018Listen, we are going to preempt, we are not going to run\u00a0Kimmel\u00a0anymore, until you straighten this out because we, we licensed broadcaster, are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC if we continue to run content that ends up being a pattern of news distortion,\u2019\u201d Carr said\u00a0in an interview with conservative podcaster Benny Johnson.<\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel returned to the air<\/a> on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump appears to be unhappy with Seth Meyers, apparently due to the late-night host recently mocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[28190,65,156,28099,17758,111,139,69,514,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-139083","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-brendan-carr","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-late-night-with-seth-meyers","12":"tag-late-night-tv","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-newzealand","15":"tag-nz","16":"tag-seth-meyers","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}