“But while his delivery was erratic, his message was insane,” Kimmel said. In Trump’s speech from the White House, he declared that the U.S. was “absolutely dead” and ready to “totally fail” when his predecessor Joe Biden was in charge one year ago. “Now, we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world,” Trump said.

Cruz proposed reining in or killing the FCC’s amorphous public interest authority over broadcasters — including what the Senate Commerce chair called its “wretched offspring” like the news distortion rule, the basis for many of Carr’s media threats throughout the year.