A new report claims that the Federal Communications Commission will be putting some pressure on Disney’s TV stations as a response to Jimmy Kimmel’s slam against Melania Trump.
According toNBC News, the FCC is expected to order Disney’s eight owned-and-operated television stations to seek broadcast license renewals now, instead of 2028 when they were scheduled to be due. Disney is the parent company of ABC, which broadcasts Kimmel’s show.
NBC said the source it spoke to called the FCC action “unprecedented,” and linked it to Kimmel’s jab at the first lady.
As noted by the news websiteSemafor, President Donald Trump and Melania Trump have called upon ABC to fire Kimmel, who two days before an assassination attempt against the president referred to the first lady as “an expectant widow.”
Samafor’s report indicated Carr was moving toward an early renewal.
The Commission may choose not to trigger that process, known as an early license review, some of the people said. But FCC chairman Brendan Carr has threatened Disney’s licenses before as recently as this month, when he criticized the company’s diversity programs.
— Semafor (@semafor)April 28, 2026
Kimmel has refused to apologize for the comment (thoughhe did sayhe was sorry Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner took place).
In a post on the social media platform X, White House Communications DirectorSteven Cheung wrote, “Jimmy Kimmel is a s**t human being for: #1. Making a disgusting joke about assassinating the President #2. Doubling down on that joke instead of doing the decent thing by apologizing ABC needs to fire him immediately and he should be shunned for the rest of his life.”
Disney owns stations in the major markets of Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, and Fresno, California, according to NBC.
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