Trump has set his sights on the “Big Kahuna” of media behemoths, the Humor Times magazine, suing it for “defamation.”
Fresh off his lucrative out-of-court settlements with media giants Disney ($16 million) and Paramount ($16 million), President Donald Trump has now set his sights on what he called the “Big Kahuna” in the realm of media behemoths, the Humor Times magazine, suing it for “defamation.”
Trump legal counsel Alina Habba said that Disney and Paramount were “the appetizers,” and that the entrée of Trump’s litigious feast will be the “poster child for the lamestream media,” the Humor Times.
Reached at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, where he was using a Sharpie to sign legislation taking food off the plates of starving children, Trump called Humor Times “an enemy of the people.” Trump was asked about several of the Humor Times writers, along with editor-publisher James Israel, who had reportedly been deported to Alligator Alcatraz in the Florida Everglades, following a raid by ICE over the July 4 weekend.
At the mention of Mr. Israel, Trump’s face assumed a constipated expression and he muttered darkly, “Damned space lasers…” Asked by alt-right reporters what defamation accusations would be levied against HT in court, Trump replied that he was in no hurry to file the action, inasmuch as “the perps are already in custody.”
In the 10 years since Trump began his political career with the fanfare of his descent on the golden escalator in Trump Tower, he has posted some 3,500 anti-media messages on social media. That is nearly 1 per day. And of those posts, more than 1,100 have concerned his discontent with Humor Times.
Suspicion regarding Paramount’s out-of-court settlement with Trump owes to an as yet unresolved merger between Paramount and media giant Skydance. The Trump-controlled FCC will have to sign off on the merger in order for it to go through. A similar situation exists in which Humor Times is presently in negotiations with Bazooka Joe Comic Strips to merge their assets with the bubble gum maker.
Trump’s antagonism against Humor Times has surfaced sporadically over the years. In January, reporter Ted Holland was banned from Oval Office events and Air Force One because Humor Times continues to refer to the “Gulf of Mexico” (not the “Gulf of America”).
In March, when a HT article disputed claims by the Trump Administration that the “big beautiful bombs” dropped on Iran “obliterated” the Iranian nuclear-enrichment program, Trump insisted that the Humor Times employees responsible for the coverage be fired. He called the reporters who wrote story “BAD AND SICK PEOPLE” and “sleazebags.” Trump even canceled the White House’s subscription to Humor Times.
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