{"id":32748,"date":"2025-09-24T08:33:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/trump-railed-against-jimmy-kimmel-ahead-of-the-comedians-return-to-late-night\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:33:45","slug":"trump-railed-against-jimmy-kimmel-ahead-of-the-comedians-return-to-late-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/trump-railed-against-jimmy-kimmel-ahead-of-the-comedians-return-to-late-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump railed against Jimmy Kimmel ahead of the comedian&#8217;s return to late-night"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68d1ac8957d362d375e8a427?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\"\/><figcaption>President Donald Trump<\/p>\n<p>Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Donald Trump slammed Disney and ABC for bringing back Jimmy Kimmel&#039;s show.<\/li>\n<li>He hinted he would be launching a lawsuit against ABC for the decision.<\/li>\n<li>Last week, ABC suspended Kimmel after his comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Donald Trump has blasted ABC for its decision to bring Jimmy Kimmel back.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour before Kimmel&#039;s Tuesday night show was set to go live, Trump said in a Truth Social post that he could not believe that ABC had given Kimmel his job back.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!&quot; he wrote. &quot;Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his &#039;talent&#039; was never there.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Trump then hinted that the White House could launch a lawsuit against ABC, referencing the multimillion-dollar settlement he won from the network after he sued it for defamation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think we&#039;re going to test ABC out on this. Let&#039;s see how we do,&quot; Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Disney suspended Kimmel&#039;s show on September 17. The show was pulled after Brendan Carr, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, slammed Kimmel&#039;s comments about the killing of the conservative political activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to suspend Kimmel caused an uproar, with several figures from Hollywood to late-night show hosts criticizing the Trump administration and accusing it of infringing on free speech rights.<\/p>\n<p>Trump spoke at Kirk&#039;s memorial service in Arizona on Sunday. He previously celebrated Kimmel being pulled off the air.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done,&quot; Trump wrote on Truth Social on September 17, taking time to comment on the news during his state visit to the United Kingdom. &quot;Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that&#039;s possible.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Disney announced that Kimmel would return to &quot;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&quot; after previously suspending ABC&#039;s flagship late-night show following Kimmel&#039;s remarks about Charlie Kirk&#039;s killing.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country. It is a decision we made because we felt some of the comments were ill-timed and thus insensitive,&quot; the Walt Disney Company said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It added, &quot;We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Disney endured days of criticism from Hollywood to Washington over the decision to suspend Kimmel&#039;s show. Before the announcement of his return, more than 400 artists, including Tom Hanks, Pedro Pascal, Mark Ruffalo, Jennifer Aniston, and Selena Gomez, signed an open letter supporting Kimmel.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the political criticism has focused on FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, a Trump appointee, who warned Disney &quot;We can do this the easy way or the hard way&quot; while taking issue with Kimmel&#039;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>Carr later applauded Nexstar Media Group, which owns 28 ABC affiliates, after the station owner said it would preempt Kimmel&#039;s show. ABC later suspended Kimmel&#039;s show entirely before Monday&#039;s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republican and Trump ally, later said that Carr&#039;s comments sounded like &quot;a mafioso.&quot; Trump has defended Carr and told reporters he disagreed with Cruz&#039;s view of the situation.<\/p>\n<p>Before Trump&#039;s comments, Sinclair Broadcasting Group and Nexstar Media Group, which separately own roughly 25% of all ABC affiliates, each announced that they would continue to air other programming instead of Kimmel&#039;s show.<\/p>\n<p>In its announcement, Nexstar said that viewers could still watch Kimmel via one of Disney&#039;s streaming services.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, Nexstar and Disney have urgent business before the FCC \u2014 including Nexstar&#039;s $6.2 billion merger with Tenga, another local TV operator.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of Trump and Kimmel did not respond to requests for comment from Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump Tasos Katopodis\/Getty Images Donald Trump slammed Disney and ABC for bringing back Jimmy Kimmel&#039;s show. He hinted he would be launching a lawsuit against ABC for the decision. Last week, ABC suspended Kimmel after his comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk. President Donald Trump has blasted ABC for its decision to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-32748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}