{"id":3190,"date":"2025-09-21T14:14:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:14:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:14:26","slug":"karoline-leavitt-shreds-obama-after-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/?p=3190","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt Shreds Obama After His"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Obama Speaks Out on Kimmel Suspension<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President Barack Obama criticized the indefinite suspension of&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>, accusing the Trump administration of exerting pressure on media companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He argued that despite frequent complaints about \u201ccancel culture,\u201d the current administration has gone further, using government influence to silence voices. On X, Obama wrote that this represents exactly the kind of state interference the First Amendment was created to prevent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>White House Responds<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back during a Fox News appearance, dismissing Obama\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She insisted President Trump was unaware of the suspension until she informed him during his overseas trip, emphasizing that the White House had no involvement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reason for Suspension<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leavitt claimed ABC made the decision independently, pointing to Kimmel\u2019s alleged \u201cknowingly false\u201d remarks concerning the death of \u201ca highly respected man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Network Actions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disney confirmed ABC\u2019s suspension of the late-night show. In addition, major broadcast groups Nexstar and Sinclair announced they were pulling the program from their schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Broader Tensions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dispute highlights growing clashes between politics, media, and freedom of speech, with Obama warning of government overreach and the White House insisting networks acted on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Speaks Out on Kimmel Suspension Former President Barack Obama criticized the indefinite suspension of&nbsp;Jimmy Kimmel Live, accusing the Trump administration of exerting pressure on media companies. He argued that despite frequent complaints about \u201ccancel culture,\u201d the current administration has gone further, using government influence to silence voices. On X, Obama wrote that this represents&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3192,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topstoryus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}