In October 2017, when Trump was president, he criticized NBC and wrote that "network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked." Democrats on the FCC and in Congress immediately rebuked Trump.

Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel denounced former President Donald Trump’s “threats against free speech” Thursday after he attacked CBS and called for the network to “lose its license” over a recent “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Federal Communications Commission’s chairwoman slammed former president Donald Trump on Thursday for suggesting that CBS’s broadcast license be revoked because the network edited Vice President Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview to make one of her answers appear more concise and less confusing.