Day 246: King Don's Quest for Enemies: Antifa and the Silencing of Humor

King Don’s War on Dissent

King Don has finally signed the executive order he’s always drooled over: designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization.” Never mind that antifa isn’t actually an organization. Never mind that no one has produced a shred of evidence connecting it to Charlie Kirk’s murder. Details, facts, reality — those are for peasants.

The Don has decreed it, and so it shall be.

A Convenient Enemy

This is political theatre at its most dangerous. By conjuring antifa into existence as some shadowy, centralized “militarist, anarchist enterprise,” Donny gets his perfect bogeyman. A ready-made scapegoat he can parade before his base every time something goes wrong. Food prices up? Antifa. Protests in the street? Antifa. His tie looks crooked on TV? Definitely antifa.

But the truth is simpler: there is no organization, no national structure, no membership cards. It’s a loose movement of activists. To designate “antifa” as a terrorist group is to criminalize dissent itself.

Crushing Dissent, Donny Style

Make no mistake: this isn’t about Charlie Kirk, or terrorism, or national security. This is about King Don tightening the screws on civil liberties, turning the state’s surveillance powers onto anyone who resists him. Today it’s “antifa.” Tomorrow it’s teachers, unions, climate activists, or just anyone who boos him at Yankee Stadium.

It’s a blueprint straight out of the strongman playbook: find an enemy, inflate its menace, and use it to justify authoritarian crackdowns. And the timing couldn’t be clearer — as the walls close in from the Epstein files scandal and his economic bungling, Donny finds a distraction.

The Real Threat Ignored

Meanwhile, the actual killers and terrorists in America — overwhelmingly from the far right — get a free pass. The DOJ literally just deleted a study showing far-right extremists are responsible for more homicides than any other group. But sure, let’s focus on an imaginary antifa army instead.

Because when you’re the Mad King, the truth is expendable. Dissent is treason. And executive orders aren’t tools of governance — they’re cudgels to smash your enemies.

Donny’s Censorship Backfires

Six days. That’s how long it took for Disney to realize pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air was a terrible mistake. The suspension, sparked by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s thinly veiled threats over Kimmel’s jokes about the right’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s killing, became a flashpoint — and not in the way The Don hoped.

The blowback was swift. Critics, viewers, and boycotters alike made it clear: you don’t silence a comedian for telling the truth about hypocrisy without consequences. Disney, in damage-control mode, has now reversed course, claiming the pause was just to “avoid inflaming a tense situation.” Please. They caved to political pressure, and everyone knows it.

Donny’s Authoritarian Dream

The Mad King, of course, couldn’t resist spiking the football. He called Kimmel’s suspension “great news” and even mischaracterized it as a full cancellation. In Donny’s fantasy kingdom, comedians who mock him are banished, late-night TV becomes Fox News with a laugh track, and free speech is a privilege handed out only to sycophants.

But the reversal shows there’s a limit. Americans still understand that when a government official threatens a broadcaster over content, it’s not “patriotism” — it’s censorship. And it’s dangerous.

And Donny has been quick to rant on his shitty app about what scandal this is by having him reinstated.

Disney’s Tightrope

Disney’s line that this was all in the company’s “best interest” rather than external pressure is laughable. Bob Iger and Dana Walden spent the weekend frantically triaging a PR nightmare of their own making, knowing that boycotts and brand damage were far worse for business than one FCC apparatchik’s bark. They tried to appease The Don. Instead, they looked weak. Now, after losing nearly $4 billion over the fiasco, they've had to make an embarrassing climbdown.

Now Kimmel will be back on air, very likely addressing the fiasco head-on. The question is whether Disney will finally grow a spine or continue playing footsie with authoritarian power.

The Bottom Line

This isn’t about one late-night host. It’s about the principle: in a democracy, presidents and their cronies don’t get to decide what jokes are “acceptable.” The Mad King might think he can silence dissent with lawsuits, tariffs, and threats. But this time, the punchline’s on him.