Report: Chrissy Teigen Wasn’t the Only Celebrity Trump Tried to Censor for Being Mean to Him

Earlier this month, during a congressional hearing, we learned that in September 2019, the White House requested Twitter to remove a tweet Chrissy Teigen vocation donald trump a “pussy ass bitch”. As Anika Collier Navaroli, A former company employee told lawmakers, “We had received a request from the White House to make sure we evaluate this tweet and they wanted it taken down because it was a derogatory statement to the President.” .” Later, in another exchange with a House representative, Navaroli read the full tweet into the Congressional Minutes:

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Anyhow, we’ve been reminded — this is the thinnest-skinned President PAB known to man — thanks to a new report on the previously unseen efforts Trump appears to have made to try and land a late-night host receive Jimmy Kimmel stop making fun of him.

As Rolling Stone reported over the weekend in early 2018, the then-president was “so upset by Kimmel’s comedic punches that he instructed his White House staff to call one of Disney’s top executives in Washington, DC to complain and take action.” to promote. ‘ said people familiar with the matter. (Disney is the parent company of ABC, which airs Jimmy Kimmel Live!.) According to the outlet, “In at least two separate phone calls, the White House reported the severity of [Trump’s] Anger with Kimmel at Disney.” Trump wanted Disney to “curb the … ABC host,” which the then-president felt was “very dishonest,” and joked that the former real estate developer “would have sued once.”

And it apparently became a topic of conversation in Washington:

The incident was so bizarre that word of it spread through the corridors of power in Washington, DC. Other government officials unrelated to the pressure campaign began hearing from their contacts at Disney how confused they were that the White House kept telling them Trump wanted Kimmel to tone down his anti-Trump humor.

“At least one call was made to Disney [that I know of]recalls a third former official who worked in the Trump White House. Sources spoke to Rolling Stone on condition of anonymity to speak freely and maintain ongoing ties in Trumpworld and conservative circles. “I don’t know to whom[m], but it happened. Nobody thought it would change anything, but DJT was focused on that, so we had to do something… It was mostly doing something to say it [Trump]’Hey, we did that.’”

Apparently, the campaign to stop Kimmel from mocking Trump was unsuccessful, although that didn’t stop the leader of the free world from trying to use the full weight of the federal government to silence his critics. As Rolling Stone notes, months before L’Affaire du Jimmy, Trump’s FCC chairman said the agency would investigate a joke Stephen Colbert had about the President and made Wladimir Putin. (An investigation did take place, and Trump “repeatedly asked staff members for updates on whether the FCC had already made a decision,” according to a source speaking to Rolling Stone. The FCC ended up doing nothing because, despite Trump’s hopes and dreams, the US is not North Korea.) In 2019, Trump again tasked the FCC — and the Justice Department — to see if the government could retaliate against late-night shows after he enraged over an unflattering rerun of “Saturday Night.” As the Daily Beast reported in 2021, he happened to hear it live.

Anyway, will the ex-guy make all jokes about him illegal if he wins in 2024? We’ll just have to wait and see!

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