\u201cSeinfeld<\/a>\u201d star Julia Louis-Dreyfus<\/a> warns President Donald Trump<\/a> could take his crackdown on critics even further, arguing during the latest episode of her podcast \u201cWiser Than Me\u201d that it\u2019s always \u201cthe comedians who go down first\u201d only for other voices to follow.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI\u2019m not sure how we got here, but all of a sudden we live in a world where facts are disputed,\u201d said Louis-Dreyfus during her opening monologue<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re drowned in noise, and then they\u2019re weaponized. It\u2019s like there\u2019s this attack on our ability to trust what we perceive.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She continued, \u201cAnd then confusion and a kind of numbed, stupification are the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Golden Globe winner went on to claim that art is of particular concern to authority figures because it can\u2019t be refuted by noise or rhetoric, but makes its case \u201cthrough feeling,\u201d which \u201ccan\u2019t be controlled\u201d and is thus typically the first free speech domino to fall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cI\u2019ve done a lot of comedy in my career, and people don\u2019t immediately think of comedy as part of the artist holding up the mirror to society thing, but of course that\u2019s exactly what comedy does,\u201d said Louis-Dreyfus. \u201cAnd that\u2019s why it\u2019s the comedians who go down first.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n She continued, \u201cThe Stephen Colberts and Jimmy Kimmels.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cThe Late Show\u201d was canceled<\/a> last year after Colbert ripped CBS parent company Paramount Global<\/a> for settling a $16 million lawsuit with Trump. The company was seeking approval at the time<\/a> from the Federal Communications Commission for an $8 billion merger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trump celebrated news of the cancellation<\/a> on his Truth Social<\/a> platform at the time.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kimmel\u2019s ABC show was also pulled last year<\/a> amid conservative backlash to his comments that Republicans<\/a> were seizing on the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk to score political points. Trump once again celebrated the ouster<\/a>, which was ultimately temporary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n In April, FCC chair Brendan Carr ordered early license reviews<\/a> of Disney\u2019s eight owned-and-operated ABC stations, potentially jeopardizing the future of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live.\u201d Its host has frequently criticized Trump, who has repeatedly called<\/a> for Kimmel to be<\/a> taken off the air<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Left: Richard Shotwell\/Invision\/Associated Press; Right: Evan Agostini\/Invision\/Associated Press<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n Kimmel hasn\u2019t stopped cracking jokes about Trump<\/a> even after the MAGA leader once again wished<\/a> earlier this month for \u201cthree more limping Late Night Talk Show Hosts\u201d to follow in Colbert\u2019s footsteps. Kimmel has also<\/a> poked fun at first lady Melania Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cHistory can be rewritten and heroes removed, but it\u2019s harder to erase how people react to a novel or a painting or a movie,\u201d Louis-Dreyfus noted on her podcast. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s why they used to sneak rock and roll into the Soviet Union \u2014 people needed that forbidden feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Louis-Dreyfus never mentioned Trump by name during her pointed monologue, but did note that a play set in Gaza \u201cor on the first tee at Mar-a-Lago\u201d would \u201ccause a bit of a fuss\u201d these days, and urged any attempt at censorship to be met with resilient noncompliance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWhen there\u2019s so much propaganda and chaos,\u201d she said, \u201cthe artist\u2019s job gets more essential and, frankly, more dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Then she went on to add, \u201cWhen our government sees artists as the enemy \u2026 that\u2019s the start of something truly terrifying. It\u2019s a very small step from here to punishing dissent itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cSeinfeld\u201d star Julia Louis-Dreyfus warns President Donald Trump could take his crackdown on critics even further, arguing during the latest episode of her podcast \u201cWiser Than Me\u201d that it\u2019s always \u201cthe comedians who go down first\u201d only for other voices to follow. \u201cI\u2019m not sure how we got here, but all of a sudden we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2475815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25174],"tags":[22389,23060,356249,22653],"class_list":["post-2475814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gossip","tag-donald-trump","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-julia-louis-dreyfus","tag-stephen-colbert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Julia-Louis-Dreyfus-Issues-Dire-Warning-About-Trump-\u2018Its-The-Comedians.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475814","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=2475814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475816,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475814\/revisions\/2475816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2475815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Louis-Dreyfus](\"https:\/\/img.huffingtonpost.com\/asset\/6a3d38ca16000049125d4ee3.jpeg?ops=crop_165_0_1261_900%2Cscalefit_720_noupscale&format=webp)
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