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Trump Responds To Jimmy Kimmel Live! Getting Pulled Off The Air And People Are Outraged

Jimmy Kimmel has been indefinitely removed from the air, following government action.

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It’s one of those moments in the Trump era in which a line has been crossed in a way that it had never been crossed before: Yes, following an action by the federal government, a talk show host has been removed from the air.

The show is Jimmy Kimmel Live, the ABC late-night talk show hosted by comedian and frequent Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel, following comments Kimmel made about the man who shot conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel, earlier this week on his show, had stated that “The MAGA Gang (is) 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 the show. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”

The comments came on Monday night’s show, at a time when the motives of the accused shooter, Tyler Robinson,  remained relatively unknown.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, per CNN, dismissed Kimmel’s comments as “the sickest conduct possible,” and threatened to revoke station licenses. The FCC regulates the airwaves, which include the broadcast networks, but not cable or streaming. Still, the agency has not traditionally acted as a full-on censor that demands specific programming decisions.

By the end of the day on Wednesday, the station owner Nexstar announced that it would pull Kimmel’s show from the ABC channels it owns, and ultimately, ABC announced that it would yank the show indefinitely. And before long, Trump was gloating:

“Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.”

To be clear: Kimmel’s show has, by all indications, been yanked temporarily and not permanently dropped.

A lot of social media users had shocked reactions to this turn of events:

Photo courtesy of the Political Tribune media library. 

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Stephen Silver is an award-winning journalist, essayist and film critic, and contributor to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Broad Street Review and Splice Today. The co-founder of the Philadelphia Film Critics Circle, Stephen lives in suburban Philadelphia with his wife and two sons. Stephen has authored thousands of articles that focus on politics, technology, and the economy.

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