{"id":2030426,"date":"2025-09-18T02:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2030426"},"modified":"2025-09-18T02:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T02:31:31","slug":"donald-trump-reacts-to-abc-pulling-jimmy-kimmel-off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/donald-trump-reacts-to-abc-pulling-jimmy-kimmel-off-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Reacts to ABC Pulling Jimmy Kimmel Off the Air\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">President <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/donald-trump\/\"><strong>Donald Trump<\/strong><\/a> has responded to ABC pulling late-night host <strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/jimmy-kimmel\/\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a><\/strong> off the air over his comments about <strong>Charlie Kirk<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cGreat News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED,\u201d Trump, 79, via Truth Social on Wednesday, September 17. \u201cCongratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Trump then took aim at two other late-night hosts, <strong>Jimmy Fallon<\/strong> and <strong>Seth Meyers<\/strong>, whose shows air on NBC: \u201cKimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that\u2019s possible,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThat leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Us Weekly<\/i> confirmed on Wednesday that Disney\u2019s ABC <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/abc-pulls-jimmy-kimmel-live-indefinitely-amid-charlie-kirk-controversy\/\">decided to pull <i>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/i><\/a> from the network schedule.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article\">\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/entertainment\/news\/jimmy-kimmel-pulled-from-abc-after-charlie-kirk-comments-stars-react\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Jimmy Kimmel Pulled From ABC After Charlie Kirk Comments: Stars React<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMany stars were shocked after news broke that ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s eponymous talk show following the host\u2019s comments about Charlie Kirk\u2019s death. An ABC spokesperson confirmed to Us Weekly on Wednesday, September 17, that \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live! will be pre-empted indefinitely.\u201d The news came in the wake of Kimmel\u2019s remarks about Kirk\u2019s accused murderer, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cJimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,\u201d an ABC spokesperson told<i> Us<\/i> in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">ABC\u2019s decision comes after Nexstar Media, who owns multiple TV stations, reportedly threatened to eliminate Kimmel from its late-night lineup. The company told <em>Variety<\/em> in a Wednesday statement that its \u201cowned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt <i>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/i> for the foreseeable future, beginning with tonight\u2019s show.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The company noted that it \u201cstrongly objects to recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>Us<\/em> reached out to Kimmel\u2019s reps for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump has responded to ABC pulling late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air over his comments about Charlie Kirk. \u201cGreat News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED,\u201d Trump, 79, via Truth Social on Wednesday, September 17. \u201cCongratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2030427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,24003,21741,24386,21913],"class_list":["post-2030426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-entertainment-news","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Donald-Trump-Reacts-to-ABC-Pulling-Jimmy-Kimmel-Off-the.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}