Trump news today: Trump tried to silence Jimmy Kimmel, GOP pledges ‘loyalty pledge’

Donald Trump tried to get a popular late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel was silenced during his presidency by his White House staff calling ABC owner Disney to demand an end to his jokes at the administration’s expense, according to Rolling stone.

A former Trump official told the newspaper that “the severity of Trump’s fury” was conveyed in at least two separate phone calls to commanders because the commander-in-chief believed the comedian had been “very dishonest and (did) things that he would have sued at one time.”

“I don’t know who, but it happened,” the unnamed ex-assistant said. “No one thought it would change anything but DJT was focused on it so we had to do something… It was to do something, mostly to tell him, ‘Hey, we did this.'”

Meanwhile, Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel has told CNN that a “loyalty pledge” could become a requirement for candidates participating in the party’s presidential debates, which would force people like Trump to support the eventual winner if he himself is not nominated, an effort to avoid the damaging name-calling, animosity and nausea that has poisoned previous head-to-heads.