{"id":5666,"date":"2025-09-20T23:36:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5666"},"modified":"2025-09-20T23:36:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T23:36:51","slug":"karoline-leavitt-shreds-obama-after-his-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=5666","title":{"rendered":"Karoline Leavitt Shreds Obama After His Co"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Obama Criticizes Kimmel Suspension<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former President Barack Obama condemned the indefinite cancellation of&nbsp;<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>accusing the Trump administration of pressuring media outlets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAfter years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent,\u201d Obama wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>White House Pushback<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt rejected the claim on Fox News, saying, \u201cWith all due respect to former President Obama,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>he has no idea what he\u2019s talking about.\u201d She insisted President Trump had \u201cno idea this was happening\u201d until she informed him while abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why Kimmel Was Suspended<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leavitt argued the decision rested with ABC, citing Kimmel\u2019s<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cknowingly lie\u201d about the death of \u201ca highly respected man.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Networks Respond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disney confirmed the show\u2019s suspension, while Nexstar and Sinclair dropped it from their lineups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama Criticizes Kimmel Suspension Former President Barack Obama condemned the indefinite cancellation of&nbsp;Jimmy Kimmel Live, accusing the Trump administration of pressuring media outlets. \u201cAfter years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level\u2026 This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5666\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}