Donald Trump is again threatening to withdraw the licenses of TV stations with humorous shows. What are the targeted shows?

Donald Trump once again harshly criticized the so-called “late shows”, televised comedy shows of which he is the favorite target, and more generally television channels, threatening again with the cancellation of licenses, reports AFP, quoted by Agerpres.

The US president chose particularly hostile language to call for an end to Stephen Colbert's CBS show, in a message published overnight on his Truth Social platform.

The channel “must end NOW, it's the only humane thing to do”, demanded the American president, appreciating that this famous humorist is “a pathetic catastrophe”. Trump used the English expression “to put to sleep”, generally used to describe the act of euthanizing animals.

CBS has already announced for some time that Stephen Colbert's show will no longer be broadcast starting in May.

“If the channels newscasts and late night shows are almost 100% negative towards President Donald J. Trump, MAGA and the Republican Party, shouldn't their very precious broadcast licenses be revoked? I say YES,” the 79-year-old Republican wrote in another message, echoing a past threat.

The decision to end the show presented by Stephen Colbert has made opponents of Donald Trump accuse censorship.

Paramount, the parent company of CBS, paid 16 million dollars to the American president to settle a dispute regarding the staging of an interview with Kamala Harris, his Democratic presidential rival.

Last weekend, the channel's new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss, blocked the broadcast of a report on the consequences of the Trump administration's brutal deportations of immigrants.

Another channel, ABC, briefly suspended the star of its evening show, Jimmy Kimmel, but he later returned to the station and his contract was extended until mid-2027.

The American president would like to redraw the audiovisual landscape, which he claims is characterized by anti-conservative bias, AFP notes. He appointed a close politician, Brendan Carr, to head the industry's powerful regulator, the FCC.

He recently made waves by declaring during a parliamentary hearing that “the FCC is not formally an independent agency,” implying that his action could therefore be aligned with the political priorities of the White House.