US EditionTrump celebrates ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air
- ABC announced on September 17 it would indefinitely pull Jimmy Kimmel Live! following Kimmel's controversial comments about Charlie Kirk's death.
- The decision came after Kimmel's Monday monologue claimed Republicans tried to distance Kirk's accused assassin from their party, sparking backlash.
- Nexstar Media, a major ABC affiliate owner, also decided to preempt the show, and FCC Chair Brendan Carr condemned Kimmel's remarks publicly.
- President Donald Trump praised ABC on Truth Social as having 'the courage to do what had to be done' and called Kimmel's show 'ratings-challenged' with 'ZERO talent'.
- The suspension highlights ongoing tensions over political commentary on television and may increase scrutiny of network decisions regarding late-night programming.
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The cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s program for comments about Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist killed while giving a talk, was celebrated ‘with everything’ by President Donald Trump. “They fired Jimmy Kimmel mainly for his bad ratings, more than anything else. He said something horrible about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person,” he said at a press conference during his state visit to the UK.
Donald Trump claims Jimmy Kimmel's show pulled because of "bad ratings" and says he's "not a talented person"
Donald Trump has doubled down on his criticisms of Jimmy Kimmel, claiming his late-night talk show was pulled because of “bad ratings” and that he should have been “fired a long time ago”. Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been pulled from ABC’s programming “indefinitely” over the host’s recent comments following Charlie Kirk’s death, sparking worries around political censorship. The right-wing activist was shot in the neck and killed at Utah Valley Univer…
Trump has a creeping control over what gets said on the airwaves and it screams censorship
After criticising the MAGA movement's reaction to the killing of Charlie Kirk, the chat show host found out the hard way, like Stephen Colbert, that entertainment executives worried about their bottom lines are prepared to axe shows to please the president.
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