Critics accuse US president of using Federal Communications Commission to censor critics in violation of speech rights.
BBC's Regan Morris reports from outside the comedian's show on Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles.
After a joke by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel drew calls from the White House for ABC to fire the comedian, the US Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday ordered an early licence review of the network’s television stations. The stand-off between US President Donald Trump’s administration and the global entertainment conglomerate is the first crisis facing Walt Disney’s new CEO Josh D’Amaro. Last Thursday, Kimmel, whose late-night television programme airs on Disney’s ABC, did a send-up of...
The move comes as the White House pressures Disney-owned ABC to fire Kimmel after he called Melania an "expectant widow".
Trump calls for Kimmel's firing over remarks tied to Melania and a recent shooting incident at a media event.
US President Donald Trump said on Monday that Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC, joining his wife Melania Trump in calling out the late-night talk show host for a monologue he delivered before a shooting near a gathering of journalists and politicians over the weekend. Kimmel, in a parody of the White House Correspondents Dinner that was broadcast last week before the actual event, said: “Mrs Trump you have a glow like an expectant widow.” Donald Trump said...
In a parody aired days before the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Kimmel called Melania an "expectant widow".
'Kimmel should be immediately fired,' Donald Trump says amid backlash over joke likening first lady to expectant widow.