Trump Praises Kimmel Suspension, Targets Seth Meyers & Jimmy Fallon Next: ‘Do It NBC!’
In the wake of ABC’s decision to preempt airings of Jimmy Kimmel Live! over host Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about the shooter of Charlie Kirk, Donald Trump took to his social media platform to praise the network’s move and call for the cancellations of Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon, the hosts of Late Night With Seth Meyers and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, respectively.
“Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done,” wrote Trump, who is on a state visit to England at the moment.
“Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT.”
The comments were echoed through the official White House handle on X (formerly Twitter), which posted a screengrab of the post along with an image of Trump.
ABC has not announced a formal cancellation of the late-night show, but instead indicated that it would be off the air indefinitely.
The move came swiftly after news that several ABC affiliates owned by Nexstar would be preempting the late-night talk show from its stations following Kimmel’s comments.
Trump-appointed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr took to X earlier on Wednesday to praise Nexstar for not airing the late-night talk show on its ABC affiliate networks in response to Kimmel’s comments about the death of Kirk: “I want to thank Nexstar for doing the right thing. Local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest. While this may be an unprecedented decision, it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming that they determine falls short of community.”
The news came after Nexstar, which owns dozens of local ABC affiliates, announced its intention to preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live! episodes starting Wednesday night.
The comment Kimmel said that courted Carr’s outrage came on Tuesday’s episode, when Kimmel said, “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang 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.”
In response, Carr said, “Disney needs to see some change here, but the individual licensed stations that are taking their content, it’s time for them to step up and say, ‘This garbage, to the extent that that’s what comes down the pipe in the future, isn’t something that we think serves the needs of our local communities.’ But this sort of status quo is obviously not, not acceptable where we are.”
Kimmel was reportedly set to clarify his comments before the show was suspended.
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I'm sure when "SNL" comes back on with new eps and he's made fun of again when James Austin Johnson plays him, Trump will demand NBC cancel it as well. Don't do it, NBC, to either that 51-year-old show or Jimmy and Seth, especially the latter whose "A Closer Look" segments really make their point about how asinine the current president really is!
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SNL should have been canceled 20 years ago...It's not funny, lacks talent is stale and downright SUCKS....Give it a break guys....It's over !
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lol you totally copied and pasted this from the SNL comments section 20 years ago.
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Here is my opinion......Don't like...DON'T WATCH! There's always Fox News to satisfy your love for Trump....
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Simple change the station. Why are you watching if you don't like it???
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Actually stopped watching it in the 90s when it stopped making fun of both R And D and became a mouth piece of the DNC.
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Our current administration would like us to watch propaganda TV just like China, North Korea And Russia. Mister Kimmel did not say anything against Charlie Kirk, just the way our president was reacting after his death. Networks are all just kissing our President's behind and following like a bunch of obedient monkeys. If these networks have such guidelines about behavior of their employees and topics they discuss Why is there so much garbage on TV today. Presenting everything from rape to murder and Sensationalism?
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YOU WILL SAY NO WRONG ABOUT DEAR LEADER
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Steve O, stop huffing paint in mommy's Attic.
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Its so funny to see the left complaining about this when so many on the right were canceled over the past 6 years.
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Ok.Educate me with some examples with your point of view???
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This is how Nazi Germany started. One Party with way to much power and a leader out of control.
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You are absolutely right! I was worried that our country would turn into Nazi Germany and it has absolutely done that! We need to get Trump out of office before he completely loses it and ruins our country. He's already started!!
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You are absolutely right!! I knew our country would be ruined if Nazi Trump was in there!
He's a complete narcissist and it's all about him. I hope America can get that jerk out of office!
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Yeah Uh Huh Sure, Sure. You Must take the vaccine or be fired. You may Not congregate in groups. And it’d be hard to even try to count all the people the liberal left canceled and ruined people’s lives for the slightest thing they said or done. Leftist amnesia.
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Liberals didn't do this hahaha keep lieing to yourself. Enjoy being controlled by the new Hitler. Blind much? Imagine if Obama did this to fox you would lose your mind. Sean Hannity is a major fake news pusher
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Omg. What an unintelligible thing to say.
Read up on nazi and Hitler before making such a sacrilegious thing
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what happened to FREE SPEECH????? I thought i lived in USA not North Korea with a dictator telling everyone what they can and cannot watch on TV
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YOU WILL NOT SPEAK ILL OF DEAR LEADER WHO HAS RETURNED AMERICA TO GREATNESS AND ENDED ALL WAR WHILE ALSO MAKING GASOLINE FREE AND THE DRUG COMPANIES GIVE YOU MANY DOLLARS WHEN YOU BUY DRUGS
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Yes we need leader to keep cancel culture alive but only for things he wants to cancel not any citizens. We should also bow to his picture 100 times per day and put that into law. We should all dye our hair orange and wear diapers. Hail our supreme leader.
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There is NO FREE SPEECH ON ANY OF THE SHOWS from the legacy media. BECAUSE ONLY 1 POINT OF VIEW IS ALLOWED. IF you can't invite those with differing opinions... There is no free speech. Straight from Bill O'Reilly.... He said he hadn't been invited to Fallon, Kimmel, the View IN YEARS AND YEARS.
ON THE VIEW, if you invite someone with different thoughts. You pick a fight. Then y'all get mad and ask the guests to leave. to leave NOW!
EVERYONE SHOULD INVITE SOMEONE who voted for trump and you can have a lively conversation with AN INDEPENDENT FACT CHECKER THAT CHECKS EVERY COMMENT MADE.
WE ALL MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING.
IF YOU think your having a FREE SPEECH by JUST TALKING TO PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T VOTE FOR TRUMP... YOU ARE IGNORING 75 MILLION Americans.
NO ONE LEARNS ANYTHING BY JUST TALKING TO THOSE THAT Agree With YOU. Boring!! Not entertaining.
Get 4 ladies that voted for trump to discuss issues with your 5 liberal Dems.... Then you'll have a conversation. That could be entertaining. But no one can be rude. And you can't show them out the door!
Cut out the your inflaming rehtoric!! Your getting people killed!!
Didn't Charlie Kirk teach you anything about civil debate?
It works so much better and avoids hating each other...
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Didn’t see show but this is how a police state is run! We’re no longer living in a free society where we’re allowed to have freedom of speech & expression on TV anymore. If you see news women news anchors being replaced by men & they’re not allowed to speak freely anymore it’s because this administration is curtailing what’s being said about everything! Who’s allowed to be on. It’s what CBS has done away best late night show host ever! Next year his time is up. All because this so called president who wants to immortal. We’re living in very dangerous times!
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Why didn’t you say this when ABC canceled Roseanne Barr because of a social media post in 2018 and Kimmel stated ABC had the right to do so.
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Do as I say, not as I do. Politics 101!
Welcome to the Grand Illusion.
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I think Trump should stick to his own lane. There isn't a president since Johnson that I can remember that comedians didnt make jokes without getting canceled because the President feelings got hurt.
Kimmel posted his sincere sympathies to the family. The joke was meant to be a Pot Shot against the RNC.
Face the truth, Trump enjoyed all the covered he got from the comedians while running for office. TRUMP run the country and let the Networks run the programing.
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This wasn’t about Trump. This was about the comments and lies about Charlie Kirk’s shooter.
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Joking about murder? I'm sure JFKs murder was fair game for comedy. No, it was not tolerated back then!
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This is very alarming to me. Worried where this will lead.
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Talk about snowflake. How thin-skinned do you have to be, to let a late night COMEDY show, bother you that much? How sad, weak and pathetic, the orange skid-mark is. How sad, weak and pathetic that people support taking kimmel OFF the air. He and others are late night talk show hosts. It's their job, to make fun of someone in power, such as the president. If that person or anyone else CAN'T handle being fun of, DON'T be in public office. It's that simple.
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Seems like the ONLY one who is allowed FREEDOM OF SPEECH IS DAFFY DUMP!!! A SO-CALLED PRESIDENT STILL WITH 34 COUNTS OF FELONIES WHICH WAS NEVER ARRESTED FOR HIS CRIMES. WHY BECAUSE HE HAS LEVERAGE ON EVERYONE OR PEOPLE IN HIS POCKET ALL THE WAY UP TO THE SUPREME COURTS. SO HE'S ALLOWED TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER! HE'S NOTHIN BUT A SEAN PUFFY COMBS!
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I'm sure Disney felt the pain, Now, Jimmy will be back as he should be. Sorry Donny.
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Leftists don’t like it when it’s Them being cancelled. But they were just fine with anyone that even slightly disagreed with Them being cancelled. The medicine you dished out countless times for so long doesn’t taste so good does it Leftists !!
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Like who? Who was canceled whose career wasn't already over anyway? Because the first one that comes to mind for me is Al Franken. Name anyone that was canceled for me
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...we're waiting.
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Rosanne Barr, Tim Allen, Kevin Sorbo, Jim Caviezel, Mel Gibson
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Not that I agree or disagree in any way, but Gina C was cancelled.
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Seriously if Obama did this you would be saying some racist stuff. You are the party of hate and violence. The republicans are the most violent and there is so much evidence. Keep drinking the kool aid
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Why does one person get to say derogatory, name calling to Anyone that doesn’t share his views Americans are NOT Butt Kissers or BF
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I'm for free speech so I don't watch Kimmel when he is on tv or denero .they can't talk about anything but politics and from only one side theirs
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carr and nexstar are going to need their attitudes adjusted, till they get how WRONG they are. That's what it's going to take and we ALL know it.
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The KNOW they're wrong, they just chose to do it the "easy way" because of the merger.
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It's Sinclair isn't it?
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Glad Kimmel is back. Free Speech!!! Our defense against censorship and Disinformation and Dictatorship
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All I can say is Google "girls on trampolines" you will see the real Jimbo Kimmel!
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Frumpy is just a spoiled brat child. Kimmel is right he’s a big bully I’m so against bullies too because I was bullied as kid as well. He thinks he knows everything but he actually knows nothing! Keep Jimmy & ALL of them on the air including bringing back Stephen Colbert permanently! The current regime is nothing but puppets for Russia now anyway! Very disgusting & dangerous!
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Get rid of them all no one watches or cares. Show someone and something of interest and value. Instead of the continuous bashing Trump
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Like Turker Carlson?
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I can’t believe they are bringing him back. I was hoping they would get rid of The View and Stephen Colbert. I don’t like what they stand for.
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It's actually a good thing that Disney or it's affiliate cancelled the show! It's not that they're trying to limit free speech, it's his condoning of the killing that in a sense he agrees with what happened. I know he was trying to be funny or whatever. But he having the podium he's got should've gone a different route! Basically agreeing that Kirk deserved it. That's basically in line with hate speech that Dems are against? Dems are hypocrites, imagine if one of theirs gets shot. They'd change their tune!!
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Who care about Jimmy Kimmel he is disgusting... Don't be a coward, cancel the show forever... Let's leave politics out of these late night shows. Jimmy went to far.
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So very true, they are nothing like Johnny Carson
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Companies have a right to do what they think is best for their companies. Simple as that.
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Not when it's at the behest of the federal government to silence any criticism, they don't.
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They can fire Anyone at Any time the company belongs to them. There was no behest to it. They made the decision, period.
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Except Cracker Barrel amirite???
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No. You're not right. Cracker Barrel made their own decisions on that debacle. Noone was being made a joke of that was murdered. Period.
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Celebrity Family Feud was great! Steve Harvey is much more entertaining than Kimmel. I'm going to watch every night.
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Harvey was involved with Diddy big time
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That's what I read. So is Kevin Hart...
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Maybe you should watch cartoon network Might enjoy that too.
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