{"id":294746,"date":"2025-11-16T08:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294746\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T08:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T08:09:09","slug":"fcc-boss-brendan-carr-boosts-donald-trumps-call-to-fire-seth-meyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/294746\/","title":{"rendered":"FCC Boss Brendan Carr Boosts Donald Trump\u2019s Call to Fire Seth Meyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr hopped to it when President Donald Trump took another swipe at late-night host Seth Meyers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump, who is apparently furious with Meyers for his unrelenting criticism of the administration, fired off a <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115556419150424739&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115556419150424739\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/115556419150424739\">Truth Social post<\/a> sprinkled with capital letters on Saturday evening. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cNBC\u2019s Seth Meyers is suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS),\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cHe was viewed last night in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his \u2018show\u2019 is a Ratings DISASTER.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAside from everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carr reshared Trump\u2019s message to his own Twitter account. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"FCC Chairman Brendan Carr reshares President Donald Trump's Truth Social post attacking Seth Meyers.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/PKS6LPAWNNFVLCP5WMNAESIZ5Q.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"671\"\/>FCC Chairman Brendan Carr shares President Donald Trump\u2019s Truth Social post attacking Seth Meyers. X <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The social media backlash to the post was swift, with former U.S. Rep. Justin Amash writing \u201cAbolish the FCC,\u201d in response. Gregg Nunziata, a conservative legal veteran, asked: \u201cWhy in the world is the FCC chairman posting this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Abolish the FCC.<\/p>\n<p>The government shouldn\u2019t be pressuring companies with respect to late night hosts, comedians, or anyone else for monologues, commentary, or jokes\u2014whether their words are insightful, ignorant, funny, boring, politically neutral, or politically biased. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/djOBwJkTaW\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/djOBwJkTaW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Justin Amash (@justinamash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/justinamash\/status\/1989896393335411186?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 16, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carr, 46, was nominated as an FCC commissioner by Trump in 2017. He was appointed its head in 2025, <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/18\/media\/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-fcc-first-amendment&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/18\/media\/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-fcc-first-amendment\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2025\/09\/18\/media\/brendan-carr-jimmy-kimmel-fcc-first-amendment\">after he wrote<\/a> the FCC chapter in the far-right policy blueprint, Project 2025. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Thursday\u2019s show, Meyers homed in on Trump\u2019s recent negative polling showing that he was losing support among Republican voters, his attack on American workers and their lack of \u201ctalent\u201d and his apparent <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-79-claims-nobody-knows-what-a-magnet-is\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-79-claims-nobody-knows-what-a-magnet-is\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-79-claims-nobody-knows-what-a-magnet-is\/\">total incomprehension of magnets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhy are you s&#8212;-ing on people in the unemployment line? If you didn\u2019t have a rich dad, that\u2019s where you\u2019d be my man,\u201d Meyers quipped.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is the second time that Meyers has been explicitly called out by the president, making him the latest late-night host to fall into Trump\u2019s crosshairs after the cancellation of Stephen Colbert and the temporary removal of Jimmy Kimmel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/donald-trump-claims-its-illegal-for-late-night-host-seth-meyers-to-mock-him\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/donald-trump-claims-its-illegal-for-late-night-host-seth-meyers-to-mock-him\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/donald-trump-claims-its-illegal-for-late-night-host-seth-meyers-to-mock-him\/\">the start of the month<\/a>, Trump took to social to claim it was \u201cPROBABLY ILLEGAL\u201d for Meyers to mock him. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Meyers then <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/seth-meyers-fires-back-at-trump-for-calling-his-jokes-illegal\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/seth-meyers-fires-back-at-trump-for-calling-his-jokes-illegal\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/seth-meyers-fires-back-at-trump-for-calling-his-jokes-illegal\/\">fired back<\/a> with a riff going after Trump for pretending not to watch his show when it appears he can\u2019t tear himself away, and for surrounding himself with lackeys and yes men. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat is your First Amendment right, which I have too, right? We all have it, right?\u201d Meyers asked. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Carr has <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumps-maga-media-enforcer-brendan-carr-is-having-the-time-of-his-life\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumps-maga-media-enforcer-brendan-carr-is-having-the-time-of-his-life\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumps-maga-media-enforcer-brendan-carr-is-having-the-time-of-his-life\/\">previously expressed glee<\/a> at being able to carry out Trump\u2019s wishes hand-in-glove and has railed against the \u201ccensorship\u201d of right-wing views online. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"South Park, Brendan Carr in a hospital bed, his arm propped up in a Nazi salute.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/J7YM3R5APJGD3BZNA4JHFADWUE.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"432\"\/>FCC Chairman Brendan Carr as depicted in \u201cSouth Park.\u201d Comedy Central <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He launched the investigation into the 60 Minutes strand that ended with CBS settling with Trump for $16 million, has forced broadcasters to drop DEI policies, and reportedly threatened to revoke ABC\u2019s broadcasting license if they did not pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! following its host\u2019s remarks about Charlie Kirk. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe can do this the easy way, or the hard way,\u201d Carr is alleged to have told the ABC regarding Kimmel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident prompted the animated-comedy series South Park to brutally satirize Carr, rendering him hospitalized with a parasite that could cause him to \u201close his freedom of speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr hopped to it when President Donald Trump took another swipe at late-night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1072,88,3092,13798,15303,13726,18041,51677,92],"class_list":["post-294746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-j-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-first-amendment","tag-late-night","tag-seth-meyers","tag-trumpland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}