President Donald Trump’s speech Sunday at the memorial service for Charlie Kirk quickly devolved into familiar remarks about targeting his political opponents — remarks that were promptly ridiculed Monday by a panel on CNN.

As the last speaker at the event, which was reportedly attended by around 200,000 people, Trump paid tribute to Kirk as the “greatest evangelist for American liberty,” but also used his speech as an opportunity to announce that his Justice Department was investigating “networks of radical left maniacs,” and declared that he hated his political opponents.

CNN’s Audie Cornish said she was “a little surprised” to hear such comments during what was a memorial service and celebration of life, to which senior CNN reporter Edward-Isaac Dovere said he wasn’t.

“I mean, no, because Donald Trump gives the same speech no matter what venue he's in, even at what was supposed to be a funeral or celebration of Charlie Kirk's life. It was a rally speech,” Dovere said.

“When we see the things that are being done in the name of Charlie Kirk's killing and responding to it, many of them are things that the president and top aides around him have been talking about doing for a long time. Trump, here, is using Kirk's assassination as a pretext for pursuing more political investigations.”

President Donald Trump publicly directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to aggressively target his political enemies with investigations over the weekend — and MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire reported it had Democratic leadership privately sweating.

The president posted — and then deleted — a message to Bondi complaining that "nothing is being done" about former FBI director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James and Democratic Senator Adam Schiff, a day after federal prosecutor Erik Siebert complied with Trump's demand for his resignation for failing to bring mortgage fraud charges against James.

"There's some speculation that this was meant as a private message to Pam Bondi," Lemire told "Morning Joe." "The White House has not confirmed that, but the writing of it might have been meant as a DM, as opposed to a Truth Social post because Trump then took that post down, tried to clean it up with a subsequent posting.

"But this is, we know President Trump campaigned on the idea of retribution. That was one of his campaign platforms last year, and this is what that appears to look like, and we have seen U.S. attorneys across this country find a lack of evidence, there has not been a charge yet against Letitia James, the New York State attorney general. There have not been charges yet against Sen. Schiff or others."

"We have also seen, though, an effort by this president to remove a U.S. attorney who wouldn't bring charges, and he makes mention of that in this post, too, saying he needs to be replaced with someone perhaps more compliant, and I think this is what Democrats have been warning about for months, that we'd get to this step," Lemire added.

"Will there be follow-through? We'll see in the days ahead, but this is, as one senior Democrat put to me over the weekend, this is a five-alarm fire."

"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough agreed, saying that Trump had been announcing his intention to pursue criminal cases against the prosecutors who indicted him and the lawmakers who presided over his impeachment.

"Well, yeah, this is actually what Democrats and members of the media have been worrying about for years," Scarborough said. "I mean, you know, for years, the president promised and, you know, he said, 'I am your retribution,' and then as it got closer and then when he got elected, 'Oh, I'm not going to have time for retribution, it's up to them,' and this Truth Social post laid it all bare. Then the president sort of circled back and tried to soften his comments a little bit later, but it's very interesting."

"I would guess being an attorney for Donald Trump, who understands, as Rudy Giuliani understands, as Rudy Giuliani learned, you can say one thing when you're in front of the press, outside of a federal courthouse," Scarborough added. "You go into the courthouse, you better actually stick with the law and stick with the facts. When you're talking to a judge, bad things will happen to you eventually. Maybe not that day, but eventually you will be held to account if you try to lie."

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John Oliver delivered a passionate monologue on Last Week Tonight Sunday, directly challenging Disney CEO Bob Iger to stand up to political pressure surrounding Jimmy Kimmel's suspension.

"At some point, you're going to have to draw a line," Oliver urged, recommending Iger use four key words if pushed to bend to President Donald Trump's pressure.

It's "the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away, and that is ‘F--- you! Make me!’” he said.

Oliver encouraged viewers to cancel Disney+ and Hulu subscriptions, criticizing the "laughably weak" reasoning behind pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air last week. He argued that Kimmel's monologue about Charlie Kirk's assassination — given as a reason for the late-night star to be suspended — had been mischaracterized.

"Kimmel didn't denigrate Charlie Kirk or make light of his killing," Oliver said. "The worst thing you could say is that he appears to have been wrong about the shooter's ideology. But he was also pointing out that many on the right seemed desperate to weaponize Kirk's death."

Oliver highlighted the broader implications of Kimmel's suspension, suggesting it represented a dangerous precedent. "This Kimmel situation does feel like a turning point," he stated. "If the government can force a network to pull a late-night show off the air and do so in plain view, it can do a f--k of a lot worse."

He was particularly critical of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, joking that "Basically Brendan Carr said jump, and Nexstar took his d--- out of their mouth for just long enough to say 'How high, exactly?'" Oliver suggested Carr's podcast comments essentially instructed networks what to do without direct communication.

The comedian drew a vivid metaphor to describe the pressure tactics, comparing it to "someone throwing a brick through your window that said, 'SHUT UP OR ELSE.'"

"Whatever happens to us or our parent company, it should be clear to everyone that the First Amendment is absolutely critical in this country," he said.