{"id":903,"date":"2025-09-22T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=903"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T08:20:08","slug":"karoline-leavitt-shreds-obama-after-his-comments-about-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/?p=903","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt Shreds Obama After His Comments About Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\">White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Kayleigh McEnany\u2019s Fox News show to address former President Barack Obama\u2019s comments on the indefinite suspension of <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>. Obama criticized the administration, alleging it threatens media companies to silence unfavorable voices, calling it a First Amendment violation. He urged media to resist such coercion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Leavitt dismissed Obama\u2019s claims as uninformed, stating that ABC\u2019s decision to suspend Kimmel was independent, not influenced by President Trump or the White House. She recounted being with Trump in the UK when the news broke, claiming he was unaware of the decision. Leavitt argued the suspension stemmed from Kimmel\u2019s choice to \u201cknowingly lie\u201d about a respected figure\u2019s death during a time of national mourning, leading to consequences.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\">Disney, ABC\u2019s parent company, confirmed the indefinite suspension of <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>. Nexstar Media Group, owning numerous ABC affiliates, announced it would preempt the show, citing Kimmel\u2019s remarks about Charlie Kirk\u2019s alleged assassin. Sinclair Broadcast Group also dropped the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt appeared on Kayleigh McEnany\u2019s Fox News show to address former President Barack Obama\u2019s comments on the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Obama criticized the administration, alleging it threatens media companies to silence unfavorable voices, calling it a First Amendment violation. He urged media to resist such coercion. Leavitt &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/dr.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifestorybuffering.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}