Boss of the Federal Communications Commission, appointed by Donald Trump. Under his leadership the FCC has grown more assertive. Carr has argued that the agency's power to block mergers on public-interest grounds covers matters as tenuous as a firm's diversity policies. He has launched a probe into Comcast's diversity policies after Trump criticised NBC News and MSNBC for their "one-sided and vicious" output. Carr has been known to wear a gold lapel pin shaped like Trump's profile.
Trump has told Carr to punish CBS and argued that the network should lose its broadcast licence. Carr has said he would not be influenced by the president's lawsuit against Paramount, but his agency has slow-walked its review of Paramount's merger with Skydance Media, led by David Ellison.
After the assassination of Charlie Kirk in September 2025, a comedian on ABC erroneously suggested Kirk had been killed by a MAGA fan. Carr threatened consequences, and within hours ABC took the comedian off the air. Carr then said all broadcasters should ease up on the "progressive foie gras".
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