I looked at each monologue Jimmy Kimmel since Charlie Kirk was killed and all I had was that sinking

On Wednesday, Jimmy Kimmel became the last victim of the war of President Donald Trump on the media when the news announced that ABC was indefinitely putting the comedian of the pending actor. And if you try to understand what Kimmel said who was so offensive, you are not alone.

I looked at all the monologues that Kimmel delivered in his program ABC, Jimmy Kimmel Live, since Charlie Kirk was assassinated in UTAH on September 10. I expected that there was something shocking that would at least justify the legitimate controversy. But there was nothing. In fact, it was difficult for me to identify the specific moment that Kimmel would have crossed the line.

It turns out that the part of Kimmel’s broadcast that Trump’s supporters use as a pretext for his cancellation only lasts a minute. It was broadcast on Monday September 15 and you can look at it by yourself.

A transcription of the offensive clip:

Kimmel: We have struck new stockings during the weekend with the gang Maga trying desperately to characterize this child who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points. Between the finger at the score, there was mourning. Friday, the White House piloted the half-person flags, which was criticized, but at a human level, you can see how difficult the president takes this.

(Trump video clip and a journalist outside the White House)

Journalist: My condolences on the loss of your friend, Charlie Kirk. Can I ask, Sir, personally, how do you get during the last day and a half, sir?

Asset: I think very well. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They have just started to build the new ballroom for the White House, which they are trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years, and it’s going to be beauty.

Kimmel: Yes, it is at the fourth stadium of sorrow, construction. There is demolition … Construction … It is not as an adult cries the murder of someone he called a friend. This is how a four -year -old child cries a goldfish, okay?

Online, the Maga crowd says that Kimmel called the person who killed Kirk, Tyler Robinson, a Trump supporter. But if you listen to what Kimmel really said, he didn’t even necessarily call guy Maga. Right’s experts and online commentators were indeed trying to defend against the accusations that the guy was a Trump supporter during the weekend. And by most indications of the indictment, it was not.

You must read Kimmel’s comments in the most critical way possible to concoct a justification for its cancellation. But even if he had explicitly said “this guy is Maga” and was wrong, it is still not the reason why Kimmel was targeted by Trump.

Trump knows exactly what he does

Kimmel’s eviction was not a surprise if you read the confused chaputs of President Trump on Truth Social. After the news broke out in July that CBS canceled Stephen Colbert’s program after his contract was exhausted in the spring, Trump celebrated and said Kimmel would be the next one.

“I love the fact that Colbert (sic) was dismissed,” wrote Trump on July 18. “His talent was even less than his notes. I hear that Jimmy Kimmel is the next one. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the show tonight.”

On July 29, Trump wrote that he was not “only responsible” that Colbert was dismissed, an implicit recognition that he took the credit. And on Wednesday, Trump celebrated ABC’s decision, saying that Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers in NBC were the next.

“Excellent news for America: the notes challenged Jimmy Kimmel’s show,” Trump published on Wednesday. “Congratulations to ABC for having finally had the courage to do what should be done. Kimmel has no talent, and notes worse than even Colbert, if possible. This leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on the false news.

Trump was `almost presidential ‘

Beyond the minute of offensive equipment from Kimmel, the whole monologue is on YouTube, and you can watch how the actor continues to make fun of Trump. And it was the classic Kimmel, which has really relied on the ridiculousness of Trump’s words and actions since the start of the president’s second term.

Kimmel joking for the first time on the fact that Trump was questioned about “his friend Charlie Kirk”, to pivot other subjects such as the construction of a ballroom in the White House. And Trump appeared on Fox & Friends, where he also talked about Kirk. Kimmel in fact granted him the credit for having been briefly “almost presidential” for having said that Kirk would like people “take him to the polls”. But then Trump began to spout more nonsense than California had no ballot boxes, which prompted more ridiculous to Kimmel.

If you look at the entire monologue from September 15, everything is extremely docile. And funny. Trump really doesn’t like it when the accent is on someone else, that is clearly why the president tried to divert the attention of the kirk murder to something Trump did, namely the construction of a ballroom.

FCC and our authoritarian future

Kimmel’s change point point apparently came on Wednesday morning when the president of the FCC, Brendan Carr, appeared on the Internet program of influencer Maga Benny Johnson. The 39 -year -old influencer, who was dismissed from BuzzFeed for plagiarism in 2014 and disseminated conspiracy theories on democratic personalities like Barack Obama, described Kimmel’s comments a “malicious lie” and a clear violation against FCC policy around “news distortion”. It does not matter that Kimmel is not a news diffuser; He’s an actor.

Johnson described Kimmel’s comments to “make fun of Charlie Kirk’s political assassination”, a clearly nasty affirmation. But Carr accepted, calling Kimmel’s comments “some of the most sick behaviors”.

Carr continued by saying: “There are avenues here for the FCC”, to act, insisting that “I do not think it is an isolated incident.”

“Frankly, when you see things like this, I mean, we can do it the simplest way or that these companies can find ways to change driving … To act, frankly, on Kimmel where there will be additional work for the FCC to come,” said Carr.

The message to ABC was clear. A government official used the same tone as an old -fashioned gangster, that something should change to the network to appease Trump. And change it did it.

ABC Flippe

The appearance of Carr launched a discussion at Disney, which owns ABC, where CEO Robert A. Iger and the head of television Dana Walden would have called to eliminate Kimmel, according to the New York Times. ABC did not publish a public declaration, but a representative gave Vulture an online declaration: “Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be preempted indefinitely. »»

And ABC also felt the heat of local television owners. Sinclair, who has many stations affiliated with ABC, published a statement on Wednesday which called Kimmel to apologize directly to the Kirk family and to make a “significant personal donation to Turning Point USA”. The company also said that it would not put Kimmel’s show on the air until it has official discussions on “ABC’s commitment to professionalism and responsibility”. Sinclair announced that it would be broadcast from a special tribute to Charlie Kirk in Kimmel’s time slot.

Carr appeared on CNBC on Thursday morning and insisted that there was nothing wrong with Sinclair demanding that Kimmel makes a gift to a right -wing political organization.

Nexstar, who also has stations affiliated with ABC, said that she would no longer broadcast Kimmel either. In this case, Nexstar announced in August that it wanted to buy a rival television company, Tegna, for $ 6.2 billion. This agreement requires the approval of Carr and the FCC.

Critics do not play the clip

One of the most interesting things you may have noticed on the television cover of Kimmel’s controversy is that they do not play the clip for what the end of the evening said. For example, when the 16 minutes of Carr on CNBC, they do not even cite Kimmel directly, simply taking it for granted that he had to say something very offensive.

CNBC host David Faber stressed that Kimmel is an actor and joking about the president is something that night hosts have done for decades. When Carr rejected that Kimmel was doing something beyond the pale, Faber strangely said he couldn’t defend what Kimmel had said.

“I do not think that anyone will try to defend what Kimmel said and I certainly recover to the decision-making of the company itself by saying that this was beyond the limits,” said Faber.

“But I wonder, and I think that many people do it, that you really target only actors who, over the years, generally make fun of political figures in a way, because the president is simply offended by that,” continued Faber.

But, again, CNBC has never played Kimmel’s clip. Viewers who did not see the clip would simply assume that it should be horrible.

It’s going to get worse

Whatever the pretexts, people on the right use for all this, the goal is to close people. Kat Tenbarge, a technological journalist who worked at NBC News before becoming independent, wrote on Bluesky on Thursday that, for the first time in his career, a academic refused his request for an interview for fear of what the government could do.

All eyes are on Kimmel today, but it is a much more important problem throughout the government. During an audience on Wednesday on the recent purge of scientific experts by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the public heard Debra Houry, former CDC official. She said that her staff was terrified after a shooting at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta last month.

“I have a lot that does not talk about vaccines now and withdraw their names from the papers,” said Houry. “They no longer wish to present publicly because they feel that they were personally targeted due to disinformation.”

Trump sends ice to kidnap people in American cities and expel them to countries where they have never lived; He actually takes control of private companies, from Intel to Tiktok; And he takes advantage of his position through lucrative crypto agreements.

The average American sees the end of evening hosts starting waves on the president’s orders, and most people assume that this will not have much impact on their own life. But that’s where they are wrong.

Trump will simply continue to descend the list of targets. First of all, these are the end of evening hosts and a trial of $ 15 billion against the New York Times, and the installation of a baby-sitter at CBS News to make sure they don’t say mean things about the president. But with enough time, no one escapes the anger of a tyrant.

If you don’t like Trump, you may not be at the top of the list of people whose henchmen will come. But all those who oppose Trump, regardless of size or size, on the list.