Donald Trump Doubles Down on Jimmy Kimmel Insults, Denies ‘Free Speech' Infringement: He Was ‘Fired for Lack of Talent'
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Donald Trump has offered further applause for ABC's shock decision to take "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off air indefinitely over comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk that were deemed "insensitive."
Speaking at a press conference in London alongside U.K. prime minister Keir Starmer, Trump was asked if free speech was "better protected" in the U.S. or U.K. and why he backed the removal of Kimmel's show if he supported free speech.
Kimmel was "fired because of bad ratings more than anyone else," Trump said.
The U.S. president continued, "Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings, and they should have fired him a long time ago. So, you know, you can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent."
Trump did also note that Kimmel had said "a horrible thing about a gentlemen called Charlie Kirk."
On Wednesday, shortly after the news broke, Trump wrote "Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED," on Truth Social. "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"
Disney's ABC decided to take its flagship late-night program off the schedule after Nexstar Media, one of the biggest owners of TV stations in the U.S., vowed to pre-empt airings of the program after "strongly objecting" to Kimmel's comments on Kirk.
Kimmel had been attacked by conservative commentators over his monologue on Monday's broadcast, in which he made comments on Kirk's suspected shooter, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson from Utah, and said that that the "MAGA gang" was "trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them."
Donald Trump couldnt tell the truth if our lives depended on it.
He was fired because his ratings sucked, his advertisers and affiliates were freaking out and Kimmel told Disney he would double down, which made Disney believe the problems would snowball.
Trump should have more accurately said he was fired for being partisan zealot, but lack of talent is a fair description of a “comedian” who thinks getting claughter from a shrinking audience of trained seals by reading dnc talking points is funny.
LOL. You are giving the Trump cult spin
Just keep telling yourself that. It just points at your partisanship level of "extreme". It is amazing that you follow your boiler plate party line with an explicit indication of reason‐-
That and the two distributors are trying to merge and would thereby control more than the legal limit of stations per market area so they needed FCC approval to bend the rules. Add in the FCC Chair threatening the distributors with removal of their licenses if they did not cooperate, using the phraseology of a mafia Don equivalent to "tell them you won't run the shows or else"-- would you look at that, they were pissing themselves to tell Disney that they were going to not show the programs.
That is known commonly as corruption and removal of a right that not too long ago you were all for.
Your hypocrisy is noted.
Just keep telling yourself that
Because that’s what the actual reporting says.
That and the two distributors are trying to merge
no, they aren’t.
Add in the FCC Chair threatening the distributors with removal of their licenses if they did not cooperate
no, he didn’t.
Funny you criticize me for relying on msm reporting of what happened and you are peddling conspiracy theories,