Democratic strategist James Carville criticized several major news outlets Friday for not airing President Donald Trump's primetime speech on Thursday, stating they missed an opportunity to show the president acting "loonier than a tune."

The strategist was referring to the president's speech, in which he presented new evidence detailing multiple security breaches in elections he said were concealed by a self-proclaimed "shadow government" and the Biden administration.

Mainstream media networks, ABC, CNN and NBC, all declined to show the speech on its news programs and opted to stream it online and show clips of it with commentary during their regular live programming. 

“I think the president of the United States acting loonier than a tune is newsworthy,” Carville told CNN host Wolf Blitzer. “I don’t think we should have hidden that from the American people.”

Blitzer questioned whether Carville believed that the president should have received even more publicity, to which Carville confirmed. 

“I think the mistake was made by the networks not to show it in its entirety, so people could see him in full and understand just how far this man has gone down the road,” he said. 

“I would say there was nothing normal about [the speech]," he continued. "You can do it with clips, and you can get people on, but there’s nothing like people sitting there, watching the whole thing to tell them what’s really going on.”

The comment comes after Trump called for ABC and NBC to have their broadcasting licenses revoked over their refusal to air the full speech, claiming they were covering up what he said was election fraud. 

“In a rare move, NBC and ABC fake news have both said that they would not cover this speech," Trump said. "They knew what it was about. Fraud like this should mean a revocation of their licenses."

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.