Throughout a poignant memorial service for slain activist Charlie Kirk that bore a potent mixture of reconciliation and grief, President Trump received in a slam aimed toward late-night host Jimmy Kimmel.
Although he didn’t point out the host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” by title, Trump alluded to “a canceled late-night TV show where the anchor had no talent and no ratings.”
Disney-owned ABC abruptly pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from the air final Wednesday — simply because the present was about to start out taping that night’s episode — over remarks the comic made in regards to the homicide of Charlie Kirk and his accused killer.
“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel stated. Conservatives have blamed the U.S. left for the slaying.
Trump stated the remark “implied that Charlie Kirk deserved what happened to him.”
Kirk was gunned down with a single shot to the neck on Sept. 10 as he spoke to a couple thousand largely younger individuals at an outside occasion at Utah Valley College. The 31-year-old father of two had been controversial for his remarks on gender, race and different delicate points. His “watch list” branding sure school school as “radical professors” made many educators’ lives a “living hell” of threats and hate mail, based on experiences and targets’ accounts.
Kimmel expressed sympathy and outrage on the “horrible and monstrous” slaying of Kirk in an Instagram put up instantly after Kirk’s loss of life, however his jokes just a few days later are what went viral. FCC Chair Brendan Carr stated on a conservative podcast Wednesday afternoon that Kimmel had exhibited “some of the sickest conduct possible” and threatened Disney with some sort of motion. Inside hours, affiliate proprietor Nexstar stated it wouldn’t broadcast the present on its ABC channels and shortly after that, ABC suspended it totally.
Initially Revealed: September 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM EDT
