After nearly 23 years on American airwaves, comedian Jimmy Kimmel's ABC show is on ice.

He was suspended indefinitely by the netowrk after he made comments in the wake of Charlie Kirk's murder, which mocked the president and appeared to cast blame on his supporters.

A lynchpin in the late-night comedy line-up, Kimmel is the latest media personality to fall foul of the Trump administration in its campaign against perceived liberal bias.

The president has launched personal lawsuits against numerous news outlets and social media companies over treatment he believes is biased against him, and filed a barrage of lawsuits against the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and others.

At his urging, Congress has cut funding for NPR and PBS, while other broadcasters, such as Comcast, have faced threats to have their federal licences pulled - in that case over allegations that their news coverage of the deportation of Kilmar Garcia Abrego to El Salvador was distorted.

In turn, some media companies have agreed to changes in editorial and diversity policies, while others, including ABC and CBS, have paid out multi-million dollar settlements.