Kimmel is punching as he accelerates the battle with Trump

In his return, Jimmy Kimmel took a tone of sorrow for his controversial comments on Charlie Kirk – without saying sorry – and continued to explain that he would refuse to be intimidated by his criticisms, mainly Donald Trump.

Referring to last week’s remarks that led to his brief suspension of Disney, the end-of-evening talk show animator stopped short of an apology while his program returned Tuesday.

Kimmel carefully chose his words by saying that he accepted that some people thought that his remarks on the death of Kirk had been “badly emineed or unclear or perhaps both”, and said to them: “I understand why you are turned upside down”.

Last week, the host made a clumsy connection between the man suspected of having shot the conservative influencer this month and the “Gang Maga”, and joked saying that Trump’s reaction is akin to “how a four-year-old child cries a goldfish”.

Tuesday, Kimmel was running out of telling viewers that it was “never my intention to shed light on the murder of a young man”. And, once again, it was not his “intention” to “blame any specific group” for the actions of the Kirk killer.

He pointed out that he “thought” when he published a message sending love to Kirk’s family on Instagram last week, before this row has fun.

But Kimmel was also clearly knowing that the fury of the last days would not force him to retreat in his Trump treatment.

In fact, being at the center of a storm on freedom of expression seems to have hardened your determination.

“This show is not important. What is important is that we live in a country that allows us to have a show like this,” Kimmel told Whoops from his studio audience.

After playing a clip of Trump ridicules his bass notes, the host stressed that the row had attracted huge attention to his return and returned a ridiculous in return.

“He did his best to cancel me,” said Kimmel. “Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. It turned a lot. He could have to release Epstein files to distract us now.”

The host added: “A threat from the government to silence an actor that the president does not like is anti-American”, before repeating to put the accent: “it’s anti-American”.

Trump reported that Kimmel’s return will increase his battle with the actor and his network, ABC, belonging to Disney.

Shortly before Kimmel’s return, the president wrote that the host puts his network “in Jeopardy”, that Kimmel is a democratic spokesperson and is equivalent to “a major illegal campaign contribution”, and that “I think we are going to test ABC on this subject”.

“Let’s see how we do it,” continued the president. “The last time I pursued them, they gave me $ 16 million. It seems even more lucrative.”

This is a reference to the amount that Disney paid last year to settle a defamation trial brought by Trump after an anchor ABC falsely declared that the president had been deemed “responsible for rape”.

Disney’s decision to settle rather than fight that the trial has since been considered by certain commentators to encourage Trump to be combative with media companies.

Disney’s regulations have been one of Trump’s many examples displaying the media in recent months – Paramount has also settled with the American president in the way a 60 -minute interview with Kamala Harris was presented.

But a judge canceled the defamation trial of $ 15 billion in Trump against the New York Times last week, citing problems with its content, and gave the Trump team 28 days to file a modified complaint.

Kimmel also took advantage of his program to make fun of Disney – and is clearly in a sufficiently strong position to be also serious by showing his differentiation on the company’s decision to suspend it.

“I was not happy when they removed me from the air,” he said. “I do not agree with this decision, and I told them that.”

In the end, “they welcomed me in the air, and I thank them for that,” he said.

But “unfortunately and I think unfairly, it endangers them,” he continued.

The end of evening compatriots Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers were also targeted by Trump. “We have to denounce ourselves. He does not stop,” said Kimmel.

Kimmel targeted the American media regulator, the FCC, by calling on Robert de Niro – Trump’s most vocal critic in Hollywood – to play his new president, and suggest that FCC “uses Mob tactics to delete freedom of expression”.

De Niro told Kimmel that only praise for Trump were now free, but insults would have a price.

“You mean something nice about beautiful thick yellow hair of the president and how he can make his makeup better than any large, it’s free,” said Niro. “But if you want to make a joke like,” it is so big that it needs two seats on the Epstein jet “, it will cost you.” The actor had trouble removing a smile.

Kimmel asked: “For more clarity, because it is a fairly good joke, how much would it cost me?”

“A few fingers, perhaps a tooth”, came the answer.

Trump’s repeated jibes on Kimmel’s notes have one point – all the late evening shows are below their peak, and perhaps that part of Kimmel savor the renewed relevance that this row gave him.

His supporters, not surprisingly, were raised by his jokes and his non -sank tone.

Among the reviews and commentators of television, the founder and publisher of Latinver, Jed Rosenzweig, told BBC News: “We will have to wait and see how it affects the debate, but Jimmy Kimmel proved last night that his strength as a broadcaster is not only to tell jokes, but by commanding the play when the challenges are the highest.

“He transformed a return to high pressure into a monologue which was equally in movement, without fear and funny.”

Dominic Patten, the Hollywood News site, said that Kimmel “more than met on Tuesday – as we knew a little.”

Kimmel “was released by swinging President Donald Trump in a provocative monologue,” wrote Tommy Christopher on ribbon.

“He looked like a man speaking with the strength of his convictions,” wrote Chris Vognar from Boston Globe. “And now he has recovered his platform. It will be fascinating to see where it all goes in the coming days and weeks.”

However, Mark Walker of the New York Times noted: “Some right commentators accused Mr. Kimmel of simulating his suffocation by discussing the death of Mr. Kirk, while others did not think he was sufficiently excused.”

And Kara Kennedy of the telegraph was not impressed by Kimmel’s “self-owner monologue”.

“Progressives may wish to paint him as a martyr; but the spectacle continues,” she wrote. “So many things, therefore, for America, the drop in the edge of fascism. If it is tyranny, it is delivered with an ABC logo, a studio audience and the kind of recycled jokes that make you aspire to the advertising break.”

It may be the end of Kimmel’s suspension, but it seems to be just the start of the next phase in the increasingly acrimonious relationship between the president and the media.