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# Trump’s free speech: Control the Truth
- URL: https://www.europeans.today/2025/09/20/trumps-free-speech-control-the-truth/
- Published: 2025-09-20T00:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-20T23:50:26.000Z
- Description: Late-night satire is under siege in Donald Trump’s second presidency, as Colbert faces cancellation, Kimmel is banned, and others face pressure, exposing a battle over free speech and dissent in America. | Today’s Political Cartoon.
- Author: TODAY's Cartoons
- Tags: Today's Cartoon, Free Speech in the US, Trump 2.0, TODAY+, Donald Trump, Freedom of Expression, Jimmy Kimmel

In Donald Trump’s America, late-night comedians are cast as enemies of the state.

Stephen Colbert’s *CBS* programme is [being cancelled](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20n4q0q9zqo?ref=europeans.today), and Jimmy Kimmel [has been banned](https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-show-suspended-charlie-kirk-a2bfa904429c318fe52e7d3493c6883d?ref=europeans.today) from *ABC*. Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon are also under pressure, as satire itself becomes a political battleground in the United States since Trump’s second presidency.

The silencing of late-night critics reflects an authoritarian playbook: control the jokes, control the truth. The instinct to suppress dissent exposes the fragility of free expression when those in power dictate who may laugh and who may not.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2025/09/0000392-min.jpg)

In Donald Trump’s America, late-night comedians are cast as enemies of the state.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/15/40/1540bec0-7154-4feb-b8e1-97f579155b08/content/images/2021/09/end-flat-1.png) 

### **GOING FURTHER**

- ###### [Colbert says The Late Show will end after 33 years](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c20n4q0q9zqo?ref=europeans.today) | BBC NEWS
- ###### [ABC suspends Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show indefinitely over his remarks about Charlie Kirk’s death](https://apnews.com/article/jimmy-kimmel-show-suspended-charlie-kirk-a2bfa904429c318fe52e7d3493c6883d?ref=europeans.today) | ASSOCIATED PRESS
- ###### [Late-night show hosts decry suspension of Kimmel’s show: ‘Blatant assault on freedom of speech’](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/18/late-night-show-host-kimmel-cancel-colbert-letterman?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN
- ###### [Why is Trump so obsessed with Jimmy Kimmel and US late-night TV shows?](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/sep/20/trump-jimmy-kimmel-late-night-tv-shows?ref=europeans.today) | THE GUARDIAN

  
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