{"id":2032730,"date":"2025-09-18T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2032730"},"modified":"2025-09-18T21:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:25:42","slug":"david-letterman-reacts-to-kimmels-suspension-by-abc-calls-trump-an-authoritarian-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/david-letterman-reacts-to-kimmels-suspension-by-abc-calls-trump-an-authoritarian-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"David Letterman Reacts to Kimmel\u2019s Suspension by ABC, Calls Trump an \u201cAuthoritarian Criminal\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0001468\/\">David Letterman<\/a> shared his thoughts on ABC indefinitely suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! amid the host\u2019s comments around the Charlie Kirk shooting this week, called <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0874339\/\">President Trump<\/a> an \u201cauthoritarian criminal\u201d and told a New York crowd that as a network late night host for years, he was never \u201csqueezed by anyone from any governmental agency\u201d on his political humor.<\/p>\n<p>Lertterman appeared on Thursday afternoon on a panel at the Atlantic Festival, which began today in lower Manhattan and will continue into the weekend as the news and culture magazine\u2019s editors and writers host and appear on panels with thought leaders and celebrities. Letterman was at the festival to appear for an \u201cIdeas Session,\u201d which also featured playwright and novelist <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1628370\/\">Ayad Akhtar<\/a> and comedian and actor <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1547964\/\">Richard Ayoade<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ridiculous. You can\u2019t go around firing somebody because you\u2019re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Letterman shared his thoughts on ABC indefinitely suspending Jimmy Kimmel Live! amid the host\u2019s comments around the Charlie Kirk shooting this week, called President Trump an \u201cauthoritarian criminal\u201d and told a New York crowd that as a network late night host for years, he was never \u201csqueezed by anyone from any governmental agency\u201d on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2032731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2032730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/David-Letterman-Reacts-to-Kimmels-Suspension-by-ABC-Calls-Trump.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2032731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}