‘Not a talented person’: Trump celebrates Kimmel’s suspension amid Democrats’ outrage over free speech | Donald Trump
Donald Trump celebrated ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel late at night, and on Thursday, the comedian was not a “talented person with very bad ratings”.
“Well, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had worse ratings than anything else, and he said something terrible about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk. “Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and had to fire him a long time ago.”
According to Nielsen ratings, Latenter– While Stephen Colbert’s Late Show led the time interval of the total viewers of 2.42 million, Kimmel’s show had an average of 1.77 million viewers in the second quarter of 2025 and increased Colbert on his 18-49 important demography. However, one 11 % decrease The audience of his show last month. Kimmel also has More than 20 million subscribers On YouTube.
The debate began after Kimmel argued that “many people in Maga Land work hard to benefit from the murder of Charlie Kirk”. In one day, FCC President Brendan Carr condemned the comments as “really sick ve and claimed that ABC may face regulatory results.
ABC suspended Kimmel’s words as “aggressive and insensitive ,, and suspended the show after ABC.
The blood feud between Trump and Kimmel, especially when he hosts the Kimmel 2024 Academy Awards, and Trump calls him the “worse host” online. Kimmel read this message during the ceremony and replied to Trump by asking if the prison time has passed your time ”.
The comedian appeared as a vocal critic in the first period of Trump, and after the newborn son’s heart surgery was possible by the appropriate care law, he pioneered the struggle against the abolition of Obamacare.
Kimmel is the leading host of the second US who lost its demonstration in the last few months. In July, the CBS announced that he would cancel Stephen Colbert’s show after criticizing Trump.
JD Vance added to the stakes on Thursday and said on social media that Foreign Minister Marco Rubio’s Multiple roles in Rubio’s Trump will take place late at night.
On Thursday morning, Barack Obama condemned the Trump administration that he called a “dangerous ör rise. Obama, after complaining about the cancellation culture for years, existing management, securities and fire reporters and commentators unless they liked the media companies to routinely threatened to a new and dangerous level. He wrote on x.
FCC commissioner Anna Gomez, Democratic Commission, Also accused “ABC of the“ embarrassing ”corporate delivery that endangers the basis of the first change. The FCC, “the government does not like the police content or the authority to punish or punish publishers for the speech of the polls, or the right to constitutional right,” he said.
On Thursday, the parliamentary democratic leaders asked Carr’s resignation and forced him to suspend ABC with threats regulating threats.
“Brendan Carr, the power of power was dealing with corrupted power abuse,” the democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries and five other deputies said in a joint statement. “He disgraced his office, which he kept, by his bullying to ABC and forcing the company to bend his knee to Trump management.”
Ro Khanna, a representative of California on Thursday, issued a movement to Celbi Carr at the Parliamentary Surveillance Committee. “This administration has initiated the biggest attack on the first change in modern history and free speech,” he said. “They make the comedy illegal.”
The Democrats also plan legislative action in response to what they see as increasing government censorship. Senator Chris Murphy and Congress member Jason Crow said on Thursday that they would offer a bikameral legislation to protect the anti -government speech from censorship and would include a special defense for those targeted for political reasons ”.
At a press conference in Washington, Murphy warned that “Jimmy Kimmel will not be the last person who lost his work or will be the last person to retaliate for his criticism of Donald Trump, and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer described the threats of the administration as an attack for everything he has done since the signing of this country.
Chris Stein contributed to reporting.
