Trump says ABC, NBC licenses should be revoked over refusal to air speech on election integrity

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Source: Washington Post

President Donald Trump lit into ABC and NBC for refusing to interrupt regularly scheduled programming to air his speech Thursday night on election integrity.

Trump, who has for years feuded with the country’s most prominent media companies, claimed without evidence that ABC and NBC declined to cover the speech because they were complicit in a larger fraud.

“They and others in the media are part of a plot,” Trump said. “They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason. They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left.”

ABC and NBC did not specify why they declined to air the speech, but networks are often loath to grant time to presidents for overtly political purposes. Fellow broadcast network Fox took the speech live while CBS preempted programming for a special report, in which it aired part of the speech and explained Trump’s long history of falsehoods on the topic of election security.

Trump asserted that ABC and NBC should lose their government-issued broadcast licenses, something that he’s repeatedly suggested and something that his Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, has taken unprecedented steps to do, particularly with ABC, in recent months.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/07/16/trump-says-abc-nbc-licenses-should-be-revoked-over-refusal-air-speech-election-integrity/

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President Trump lit into ABC and NBC for refusing to air his Thursday night speech on election integrity, asserting that the networks should lose their government-issued broadcast licenses.

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost.com) 2026-07-17T14:15:06.991832182Z

[no_hypocrisy]

1. ABC and NBC answer to a higher power: their SHAREHOLDERS,

who would miss the advertising revenue if they broadcast the frothing and incoherent 30 minutes that Trump offered.

And what sanctions for CBS? They cut away before he was finished.

[Quiet Em]

2. And I'm sure the con's lapdog Brendan Carr will tweet out empty threats on Elon's cesspool

Musk and all the Repugnantmen users there will scream and holler and blah, blah blah

[City Lights]

3. I have never seen anyone of any age whine and cry as much as Pedo Rapist. nt

[BlueKota]

4. So can the other living Presidents sue the networks

because some of their speeches were not carried. They wouldn't though because they are functioning adults, not psychotic narcissists, dementia ridden, nor have the maturity level of an infant who just soiled their diapers, and had their baba taken away.

[City Lights]

11. Right! nt

[efhmc]

15. Whatever.

[moniss]

5. This was coming the minute

that they correctly refused him.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

6. Markwayne Mullin whines about NBC and ABC not broadcasting Trump's big lie speech

Link to tweet

[DemocracyForever]

7. ABC and NBC were

right because all of Trump's lies and baseless claims could make them vulnerable to defamation lawsuits. Just ask Faux News about the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit that Dominion correctly won.

[ananda]

8. If you didn't know that was coming, raise your hand!

[joanbarnes]

9. The only tRump speech they should air is his resignation.

I was there for Nixon's.

[Bengus81]

10. Me too,my dad was there for the Checkers speech and his resignation speech

I'm glad as a WWII veteran he's not here to see this Nazi shit show.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. Four takeaways from Trump's prime-time address

One of the main takeaways identified by the Washington Post is that trump wants to punish the TV networks who did not broadcast his silly speech

Repeating Trump's lies:

Four takeaways from Trump’s prime-time address

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

— Frank Amari (@frankamari.bsky.social) 2026-07-17T15:27:27.493Z

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/07/17/trump-revives-election-fraud-claims-white-house-speech/

3. Trump threatened media companies that didn’t air his speech

While prime-time speeches like the State of the Union are often broadcast on major TV networks and draw tens of millions of viewers, several outlets including ABC and NBC declined to interrupt regular programming to carry Trump’s address live.

The networks did not detail those decisions publicly, but outlets often resist granting time for overtly political purposes — and their rejection elicited a threat from Trump, who accused them of being “part of a plot.”

“They want to continue this fraud for whatever reason,” he said, adding that ABC and NBC should lose their government-issued broadcast licenses. “They want to keep it going. They want to protect the radical left.”

Trump has repeatedly suggested retaliating against the broadcast companies that cross him, and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr has taken unprecedented steps to carry out Trump’s vision.

Fox took the speech live, and CBS preempted programming for a special report that aired part of the speech and explained Trump’s history of falsehoods.

[Gaytano70]

13. All I can do now is laugh at this senile psycho.

So I will.

[Fla Dem]

14. Ya, well you big, overweight ignoramus, YOU should be impreached and in prison.

[mdbl]

16. Shut up, Piggy.

[FakeNoose]

17. Truth Social needs to lose their license for refusing to remove Russian bots

Let's see who holds on the longest.

[onenote]

18. What license does Truth Social have?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

19. truth social is a private site and has no license