In Australia they have late night US television, they do play it on commercial television, but I cannot say I have ever watched it. From David Letterman to Jay Leno, they have had many examples of US programming. I wonder why we just do not produce our own. I do not even know the names of the shows of the hosts of these shows, so I needed to look them up.

Now there is The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel Live! There are probably more, but these are just the shows I am aware of. I have free-to-air television but flick over to other stations at this time of night. I cannot say this is a format I like much, but I know plenty do.

So when I saw President Trump answer a question just before he was about to step onto Marine One, I was pretty shocked, he did not appear to be upset at all. Trump’s reply to the question of how he was holding up after the shooting of Charlie Kirk was “I think very good, and by the way, right there you see all the trucks; they just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House. Which is something they’ve been trying to get as you know for about 150 years, and it’s gonna be a beauty, it’ll be an absolutely magnificent structure. And I just see all the trucks, they just started, so it’ll get done uh very nicely and it’ll be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.”

From what I gathered Charlie Kirk idolised Donald Trump, what did he get in return? Trump’s reply of just four words before rambling on about White House construction. So on the Jimmy Kimmel show, he played the video and as the clip fades out and the camera cuts to Kimmel, he stated “Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief: construction.”

That was a pretty funny line actually, I laughed and I am neither a Kimmel fan or follower. So Trump goes on that he is not talented, he has been fired, he needs to be cancelled. This is the concern, the Federal Communications Commission [FFC] through Chair Brendan Carr is placing external pressure on a broadcaster, this is censorship. Even Republican Ted Cruz sees the danger here, Cruz states it is unbelievably dangerous for a government to say what speech they like and what they don’t like, and what gets taken off air. Cruz likened it to being right out of Goodfellas, as an outsider looking in, this looks like American democracy is at risk and plenty of MAGA followers are missing the warning signs.