Jimmy Kimmel suspended indefinitely by ABC after the affiliates revolt on the comments of Charlie Kirk

Kimmel, the veteran comic strip at the end of the evening, made several comments on the reaction to the assassination of Kirk in his show Monday and Tuesday evening. He said that “many Maga lands are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.”

ABC, which has broadcast Kimmel’s late evening program since 2003, moved quickly after Nexstar Communications Group said it would shoot the show on Wednesday. Kimmel’s comments on Kirk’s death “are offensive and insensitive to a critical moment in our national political speech,” said Andrew Alford, president of the NEXSTAR broadcasting division. Nexstar operates 23 ABC affiliates.

There was no immediate comment from Kimmel.

President Donald Trump celebrated ABC’s decision on the social social media site, writing: “Congratulations to ABC for having finally had the courage to do what should be done.”

He also targeted two other end of evening hosts, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers, and said they should also be canceled, calling them “two total losers”.

Kimmel’s contract is in place at the end of next season, which ended in May 2026.

Wednesday evening on Twitter, the deputy chief of staff of the White House, Taylor Budowich, posted: “Welcome to the culture of consequence. Normal, common sense The Americans no longer take the B ———- and companies like ABC are finally ready to do the right and reasonable. ”

In his monologue on Monday, Kimmel said that “we hit new stockings over the weekend with the gang of Maga trying desperately to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as something other than one of them and do everything they can to score political points.”

Kimmel said Trump’s response to Kirk’s death “is not how an adult cries the murder of someone he called a friend. This is a 4 -year -old child crying a goldfish, ok?” He also said that FBI chief Kash Patel managed the murder investigation “like a child who has not read the book, BS was making a way through an oral report.”

He returned to the subject on Tuesday evening, mocking the performance of vice-president JD Vance as guest host for the Kirk podcast.

He said Trump “attracted the flames” by attacking people on the left. “What is everything, are they a bunch of Sissy pickleball players because they are too afraid to be touched by tennis balls, or a well-organized deadly team of commandos because they cannot be these two things.”

The authorities say that Tyler Robinson, 22, who is accused of having killed Kirk, grew up in a conservative household in southern Utah but was tangled in a “left ideology”. His parents told investigators that he had made politically left and pro-LGBTQ rights in the past year. UTAH’s files show that it has been registered as an elector, but not affiliated with one or the other of the political parties. His voter status is inactive, which means that he did not vote during two regular general elections. He told his Transgender partner that he had targeted Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred”.

Kimmel, like the host of CBS at the end of the evening Stephen Colbert, has always criticized President Donald Trump and many of his policies on his program ABC. CBS said last summer that he canceled Colbert’s show at the end of this season for financial reasons, although some criticisms wondered if his position on Trump played a role.

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