Jimmy Kimmel’s Scathing Comments About Trump Putting Him in a ‘Prison Cell’ Resurface After His Show Was Pulled for Charlie Kirk Remark
With Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s current off-air status, Jimmy Kimmel’s previous comments on President Trump have resurfaced. The host made viral comments about MAGA activist Charlie Kirk and his death in a monologue on the show on Sept. 15, which caused the ABC to pull the plug on the show.
The late-night host has been a vocal critic of President Trump and his administration. When Trump was declared the winner in the 2024 presidential election, Kimmel said in his monologue: “Let’s be honest. It was a terrible night last night. It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard working immigrants who make this country go, for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech. It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth and democracy and decency.”
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“It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him. And guess what? It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him, too. You just don’t realize it yet.”
“I can’t stay for another four years of this,” Kimmel said at the time, elaborating that he likely is on Trump’s enemies list. “My only request to President-elect Trump is that he let me share a prison cell with Taylor Swift. I’m really good at making bracelets, and I think we get along just fine.”
On the Sept. 15 episode after the assassination of Kirk, 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 between the finger-pointing, there was, uh, grieving on Friday − the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president is taking this.”
The host concluded, “Yes, he’s at the fourth stage of grief: construction. Demolition, construction. This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend; this is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK? And it didn’t just happen once. And then we installed the most beautiful chandelier. Responses you wouldn’t believe. Who thinks like that, and why are we building a $200 million chandlier in the White House? Is it possible that he’s doing it intentionally so he can be bad about that instead of the (Jeffrey) Epstein list?”
ABC announced that the show would be off air “indefinitely,” but assured that the show was not cancelled. ABC and the show was threatened by FCC chair Brendan Carr when he told podcaster Benny Johnson, “Frankly, when you see stuff like this, I mean, we can do this the easy way, or these companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.”
President Trump took to his social media app Truth Social at 1 a.m. in the U.K., writing, “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. 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”
Several big names in Hollywood took to social media to react to the show being pulled. President Barack Obama wrote, “After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like. This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.”
