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This came across my newsfeed just now and I thought it was a perfect summing up of what Trump is doing from a Christian perspective. The sight it was posted on is called The Christian Left and the writer is Mark Sandlin...
So, Jimmy Kimmel cracks a joke about Charlie Kirk’s killer and suddenly the man is yanked off the air like he committed some cardinal sin of comedy.
Networks pulled him.
FCC officials made public noises about “consequences.”
The White House smiled like the cat who caught the canary.
Let’s be clear: that’s not oversight. That’s intimidation dressed up in a three-piece suit.
Now, First Amendment basics: ABC has every right to discipline Kimmel. They’re a private company. But when government regulators hint that a network’s licenses might “go missing” if a late-night host doesn’t fall in line, we’ve left the realm of corporate discretion and entered state-sponsored bullying.
I’m told lawyers call it “jawboning.” We regular folks just call it abuse of power.
And history has receipts. Nazi Germany shut down cabarets, jailed comedians, and made it clear that mocking Hitler could be a death sentence. In Stalin’s Soviet Union, a political joke could land you in the gulag, laughter itself became contraband. And today’s strongmen, from Putin to Erdoğan (Turkey), keep proving the same point by silencing comics, suing satirists, or scrubbing jokes off the internet. Every time, the excuse is “decency” or “respect,” but the real demand is obedience.
Satire has always been a pressure valve for truth. Dictators fear it. But they know, once the jokes stop, the lies get easier to sell.
Let’s be honest: if Kimmel flubbed the facts (he didn’t), the solution isn’t exile. It’s correction. Loud, clear, on-air correction. Because truth doesn’t shrink under scrutiny; it sharpens. What shrinks is courage when corporations and regulators decide that comedy must pass a political purity test.
And here’s where the snark meets the sermon: when politicians and bureaucrats start treating late-night jokes like national security threats, it tells you just how fragile their “truth” really is.
If your movement can’t survive a monologue, it’s not built on conviction, it’s built on glass. And glass shatters.
America doesn’t need more glass egos pretending to be granite. It needs leaders who can take a joke without calling in the censors. Because once the state starts deciding which punchlines are allowed, you’re not living in a democracy. You’re living in a church where the only hymn is “praise the powerful.”
And y’all, that ain’t funny.
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