Even TED CRUZ Calls Out TRUMP’S FCC CHAIR Over Jimmy Kimmel Firing — Says It’s “DANGEROUS AS HELL”
Even TED CRUZ Calls Out TRUMP’S FCC CHAIR Over Jimmy Kimmel Firing — Says It’s “DANGEROUS AS HELL”
🎤 Ted Cruz Calls Out Trump’s Assault on Free Speech
For once, Ted Cruz (Republican – Texas) said the quiet part out loud. In one of the strongest GOP rebukes yet to President Donald Trump’s FCC crackdown and the firing of Jimmy Kimmel, Cruz didn’t mince words. He called it “dangerous as hell,” compared it to something “right out of Goodfellas,” and warned: “They will silence us. They will use this power, and they will use it ruthlessly.”
📌 Let’s be clear about what Cruz is responding to. The Trump administration, through its loyalists at the FCC, leaned on Sinclair Broadcasting as it pushes a $6.2 billion merger with Tegna that requires federal approval. The message from Trump’s White House was unmistakable: silence critics like Jimmy Kimmel or risk losing the deal. And so, Kimmel — one of Trump’s loudest critics in late-night TV — was out.
🔥 Even Cruz sees the danger. This is not just about one comedian. If the president of the United States can weaponize regulatory power to silence entertainers, networks, or journalists, then no one’s speech is safe. Today it’s Jimmy Kimmel. Tomorrow it could be Stephen Colbert. Or a journalist at The Washington Post. Or even a conservative voice who dares to cross Trump. That’s how authoritarianism works — not all at once, but by making examples until fear and silence take hold.
⚠️ What makes Cruz’s comments so striking is that he’s hardly a defender of the left. Usually, he’s one of Trump’s most reliable allies in the Senate. But even he recognizes that when you start using government power to punish dissent, the principle applies to everyone. If Trump can silence comedians today, he can silence conservatives tomorrow. Cruz’s blunt warning — “They will silence us… and they will use it ruthlessly” — shows just how reckless this administration’s assault on free speech has become.
📣 Democrats in Congress are pushing back hard. They’re demanding investigations into whether Trump’s FCC conditioned the Sinclair–Tegna merger on political loyalty. They’re calling this the most brazen assault on free speech in modern American history. And they’re warning that Republicans who stay silent are complicit. Because when presidents can decide who gets to broadcast and who doesn’t, it’s no longer a democracy. It’s censorship by executive fiat.
🎭 Comedians across the country are rallying behind Kimmel too. Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, John Oliver — they all understand the stakes. Comedy has always been a safety valve for democracy, a way to speak truth to power. If that freedom is stripped away because one president can’t handle a joke, then every American loses something fundamental. Free expression isn’t about protecting comfortable speech. It’s about protecting the uncomfortable, the challenging, the critical. That’s what Trump is trying to erase.
🌎 History reminds us how dangerous this is. Richard Nixon once tried to weaponize the FCC against networks that covered Watergate too aggressively. It was wrong then, and it’s wrong now. Around the world, authoritarians from Putin to Orbán have consolidated power by silencing the media first. When the press and comedians are forced into silence, the people are left with propaganda — and democracy withers.
💥 Bottom line: when even Ted Cruz — one of Trump’s most loyal Republicans — warns that this is “dangerous as hell,” Americans need to listen. This isn’t about celebrity drama or TV ratings. It’s about whether the United States will continue to have a free press and the right to criticize those in power without fear of government retaliation. Trump’s FCC intimidation is reckless, authoritarian, and profoundly un-American. Democrats, comedians, and yes, even a few Republicans like Cruz are right: if we don’t fight back now, the freedom to speak out could be lost for good.
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All right. It’s rare when I agree with Ted Cruz, but even Ted Cruz sees how insane firing Jimmy Kimmel is. And for Trump’s FCC to force critics off the air, Ted Cruz has come out with the strongest Republican statement yet about what FCC chair Brendan Carr did to Jimmy Kimmel. Ted Cruz calls it dangerous as hell. He calls it right out of Good Fellas. He says Democrats will silence us and they will use this power that Trump is using and they will use it ruthlessly against us when we take power back. So again, Cancun Ted Cruz who I find majority if not almost all of his views to be repugnant and abhorrent. I find his behavior to be unacceptable for any human being let alone a member of Congress. But he’s right. And why won’t more Republicans stand up and say what he’s saying, which is that President Trump is using the government straight out of good fellas like a boss of a crime family to intimidate people who are going to talk about him and say, “You can’t talk about me. I’m going to pull your license.” Freedom of the press and freedom of speech are two of the most sacred freedoms we have. They’re in the First Amendment for a reason. And many of these Republicans who sit silent while President Trump pulls pulls critics off the air, they’re not going to like it when President Gavin Newsome does the same thing to Fox News and Newsmax here. Freedom of the press means being able to be critical of the president. It means being able to speak recklessly. That is your birthright by living in America and being an American citizen. So, I can’t believe I’m saying it, but hats off to Ted Cruz.