Trump wants another late night host fired
US President Donald Trump has called on NBC to fire late night host Seth Meyers after the leftist comedian attacked the US president on his show.
In the latest episode of the Late Night with Seth Meyers, which aired on Thursday, the host labeled Trump “the most unpopular president of all time.” He cited a poll saying the US leader’s approval was at just 33%, plummeting by 10% since March.
According to Meyers, “a sizable portion” of the president’s supporters in the Republican Party have gotten “frustrated” with Trump due to his defense of H1-B visas for foreign workers in a recent Fox New interview and his reluctance to keep his promise to release the Epstein files.
Trump blasted the NBC host in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, accusing the comedian of “suffering from an incurable case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS).”
According to the president, Meyers was “in an uncontrollable rage, likely due to the fact that his ‘show’ is a Ratings DISASTER.”
“Aside from everything else, Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!” he wrote.
Trump has attacked late night hosts who mocked him on many occasions since his return to the White House. In June, he celebrated CBS’ cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s show and insisted that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and NBC’s Jimmy Fallon should be next.
Kimmel’s program got suspended in September after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chief, Brendan Carr, warned that ABC could lose its license over the comedian’s comments about the assassination of Conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier that month. Kimmel had accused Trump of a lack of empathy and claimed that Republicans were using Kirk’s death to “score political points.”
Democrats reacted to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live! by accusing the president of clamping down on free speech. “Silencing critics through government power is the playbook of authoritarian regimes,” Representative Yassamin Ansari of Arizona said.
The broadcaster decided to bring Kimmel’s show back on air a week later, angering Trump, who vowed that “we are going to test ABC out on this.”
