President Donald Trump celebrated the abrupt cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night with a blistering Truth Social post that cheered the end of the ABC late-night show.
Trump also called for two of Kimmel’s network rivals, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers to be fired next.
‘Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED,’ Trump wrote.
‘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!!!’
Trump’s triumphant post cames only hours after ABC suspended Kimmel’s show indefinitely, following the host’s incendiary monologues about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a staunch Trump ally.
ABC confirmed the late-night program had been pulled in a short statement.
‘Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely,’ the network said.
Kimmel, who has hosted the show since 2003 and has been a vocal critic of Trump for years, sparked fury after mocking the political response to Kirk’s killing on back-to-back nights.
President Donald Trump celebrated the abrupt cancelation of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday night with a blistering Truth Social post that cheered the end of the ABC show
Trump also called for two of Kimmel’s network rivals, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers to be fired
Kimmel, who has hosted the show since 2003 and has been a vocal critic of Trump for years
‘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,’ Kimmel said on Monday during his monologue.
He went on to criticize Trump’s statement about Kirk’s death.
‘This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a 4-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?’
Kimmel also tore into FBI Director Kash Patel, accusing him of mishandling the investigation.
‘Like a kid who didn’t read the book, BS’ing his way through an oral report.’
By Tuesday night, Kimmel doubled down, ridiculing Vice President JD Vance, who had guest-hosted Kirk’s podcast in the aftermath of the murder.
‘Trump is fanning the flames,’ Kimmel said, ‘by attacking people on the left. Which is it – are they a bunch of sissy pickleball players because they’re too scared to be hit by tennis balls, or a well-organized deadly team of commandos? Because they can’t be both of those things.’
Kimmel’s relentless commentary triggered outrage, not just among conservatives but within the television industry itself.
Kimmel, pictured with a then campaigning Trump on his show in 2016, said he once threatened to walk away from the show if he had to turn down his Trump jokes: ‘If you want somebody else to host the show, then that’s fine. I’m just not going to do it like that’ the liberal TV talker said
Trump implored NBC to axe Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, ‘two total losers, on Fake News NBC’
The Emmy winning Stephen Colbert show is entering its final season and will be gone by May
One of the largest local television operators in the country, Nexstar Communications Group, announced it would no longer air Jimmy Kimmel Live! on its 23 ABC-affiliated stations.
‘Kimmel’s comments about Kirk’s death are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse,’ said Andrew Alford, president of Nexstar’s broadcasting division.
That decision reportedly spurred ABC executives to take emergency action.
There was no immediate comment from Kimmel, whose long-running show has been a staple of the network’s late-night programming for over two decades.
But White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich weighed in, applauding the move.
Kimmel also tore into FBI Director Kash Patel, accusing him of mishandling the FBI investigation
On Tuesday, Kimmel doubled down, ridiculing Vice President JD Vance, who guest-hosted Kirk’s podcast in the aftermath of the murder
‘Welcome to Consequence Culture. Normal, common sense Americans are no longer taking the bulls*** and companies like ABC are finally willing to do the right and reasonable thing. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!’
While ABC has not officially ‘canceled’ the show permanently, the language of an ‘indefinite preemption’ and the swift blowback from one of its largest affiliate partners signals serious uncertainty about its future.
Trump’s Truth Social didn’t just celebrate Kimmel’s removal, it also called for rival NBC to axe its own late-night critics.
‘That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC,’ Trump wrote. ‘Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!!’, he implored.
