Trump Wants FCC Investigation Over Al Sharpton's 'PoliticsNation'

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After targeting Jimmy Kimmel, Donald Trump wants Al Sharpton taken off the air.

The president has called for an FCC investigation after a guest on Sharpton’s MSNBC show, PoliticsNation, blasted the Trump administration for its handling of anti-ICE protests in Portland, Oregon, and for threatening to send immigration agents to the 2026 Super Bowl.

The administration is currently locked in a legal battle with Oregon leaders after the Pentagon ordered National Guard troops into Portland to halt protests outside an ICE facility.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) appeared on the Sunday, Oct. 5 episode of PoliticsNation and called Trump “reckless.”

“The president’s use of the National Guard is reckless and illegal. It’s not about public safety… it’s about power,” said Blumenthal, who is a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

The senator later called out Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for saying ICE agents will be “all over” the Super Bowl, when Puerto Rican rapper and Trump critic Bad Bunny headlines the halftime show.

“She’s just trying to create more fear and intimidation. She seems to have no clue of what homeland security really is,” Blumenthal said.

The senator added that it would be a bad look to have “armed ICE agents roaming through the crowd at the Super Bowl.”

Trump responded to the criticism of his administration with a fiery statement on Truth Social Sunday night bashing Sharpton, although there was no mention of Blumenthal.

The Truth Social post included a decades-old picture of the MSNBC host and Civil Rights activist before he slimmed down.

“I knew Al Sharpton for many years, not that it matters, but he was a major ‘TRUMP’ fan. He’d ask me to go to his fake rallies all the time, because I brought BIG Crowds, and he couldn’t get anybody to come without me,” Trump claimed.

He accused Sharpton of running “scams,” and blasted the leadership at NBCUniversal and parent company Comcast for continuing to air his show.

Trump called PoliticsNation “one of the lowest rated shows in television history,” and said it’s only on the air because it would be “politically incorrect” to sideline Sharpton.

“This is just one of the many reasons that the Federal Communications Commission should look into the license of NBC, which shows almost exclusively positive Democrat content. Likewise, ABC Fake News — About the same thing, 97% negative to Republicans!” Trump added.

But as Entertainment Weekly notes, the FCC licenses broadcast stations and only “has limited oversight over cable networks like MSNBC.”

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