He has extracted multimillion dollar settlements, forced companies into costly litigation and prompted changes to programming that he found objectionable. Hours before ABC's decision, Brendan Carr, Trump's handpicked head of the Federal Communications Commission, warned that the broadcaster and its local affiliates could face repercussions if Kimmel was not punished. Carr placed the move against Kimmel in the broader context of Trump's efforts to undermine the power of legacy media companies. "And we're seeing a lot of consequences from President Trump doing that." The president said Kimmel "had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago."