ABC Fined $395,000 for Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘Trump Presidential Alerts’ Joke
By Randy Hall | August 16, 2019 10:11 PM EDT
After more than three years of constantly slamming President Trump and everyone around him, one of the mainstream media’s late-night comedies is finally getting some pushback.
The network that airs Jimmy Kimmel Live! on weeknights, ABC was fined $395,000 on Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission after a skit that aired in October mocked the Presidential Alert system. In the skit, people completely freaked out that President Trump was sending them text messages like "Fake News." One man sliced off his own hand instead of taking off his watch.
According to an article posted by Ben Kew at Breitbart:
The skit saw a family opposed to President Donald Trump receive multiple messages directly to their phones.
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