The former The David Letterman Show host, who also had his own turns as host of The Late Show and Late Night, spoke out during an appearance at The Atlantic Festival 2025 in New York today, Sept. 18, as recounted by Variety.
"It’s managed media," he continued. "And it’s no good. It’s silly. It’s ridiculous. And you can’t go around firing somebody because you’re fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office. That’s just not how this works.”
"...so you’re telling me this isn’t premeditated at some level?” he questioned.
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He has also belittled Kimmel for a "lack of talent" and suggested that he "was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk.”
In a follow-up, Obama included a link to an article about the firing of a Washington Post columnist and added, “This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.”
Letterman also shared an update on Kimmel following the yanking of his show, after the current late-night host texted the veteran earlier this morning. “He’s up in bed, taking nourishment. He’s going to be fine,” Letterman quipped.
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