Overview

• Posting on Truth Social, the president called NBC and ABC biased, labeled them a branch of the Democratic Party, and said their coverage gives him 97 percent negative news.
• He said the networks should either lose their broadcast permissions or pay millions of dollars a year for the privilege of using the public airwaves.
• The FCC issues licenses to individual local stations on multi‑year terms rather than to national networks, and no license revocations have been announced.
• FCC Chair Brendan Carr has pursued steps to scrutinize networks, while Democratic commissioner Anna Gomez warned such controls would violate First Amendment protections.
• The push follows continued clashes with major media, including ABC’s roughly $15 million defamation settlement with Trump in July, as advisers promote ideas to monetize broadcast spectrum such as auctions.