Well, it seems Mr. Trump can’t understand that — in the case of many wealthy older men who’ve had multiple wives, and are presently with younger wives — a common joke for decades from comedians has been that the younger wife has been invested in / involved… with… waiting for them to die. Just ask Andrew Dice Clay, Rodney Dangerfield, and before them, Lenny Bruce.

We may quibble about whether that particular joke was in good taste — given what happened later in the evening, Saturday night. But there is no doubt that Mr. Kimmel’s joke is protected expression.

So I will rerun my column from November 2025 and the last time Donald Trump tried to punish speakers (including comedians!) whose jokes offend him — and of whose views he does not approve:

Tangerine and Melania today said it pretty plainly, that FCC should review (with a threat toward revoking) the broadcast licenses of networks that criticize him.

Charming. We will — as ever — peacefully — resist. Resist the trampling of our First Amendment rights.

Nearly 250 years of freedom now hang in the balance. Forget this loser, folks:

…President Trump said federal regulators should revoke broadcast licenses over late-night hosts who speak negatively about him, a day after ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” after pressure from the Federal Communications Commission chairman….

“They’re giving me all this bad press, and they’re getting a license,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One, after ABC suspended the late-night Jimmy Kimmel Live show. “I would think maybe their license should be taken away….”

Not on my watch you Manchurian Cantaloupe.

Nope. And Hinderaker is very pissy about it, but I don’t care. I refuse to link his nonsense.

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