As I predicted, the left is trying to turn Jimmy Kimmel into a martyr, hoping his suspension can be spun as an assault on free speech. If there’s one thing the left excels at, it’s playing the victim card—and gaslighting the public while they do it. We saw the same stunt when CBS canceled Stephen Colbert’s late show. Once again, facts don’t matter; narratives do. And right now, the narrative they’re pushing is that Kimmel was “silenced” for being anti-Trump.
That’s a lie.
Kimmel wasn’t punished for his politics. He got suspended because he used his platform to peddle dangerous, provably false claims about a horrific crime—claims that put ABC and Disney on the hook legally. This isn’t censorship. It’s accountability.
Let’s be honest: Jimmy Kimmel has spent years building a brand out of bashing Donald Trump. Night after night, he mocks, smears, and demonizes Trump and his supporters, parroting the left’s talking points like clockwork. He has never been quiet about his political allegiance. Nobody with a straight face can claim Kimmel has been targeted for his opinions—he’s one of Hollywood’s loudest and most predictable anti-Trump mouthpieces. That’s exactly why his suspension isn’t a free speech crisis—it’s a long-overdue wake-up call.
When Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, Kimmel called it “the kind of thing dictators do.”
In August 2017, Kimmel called Trump “an egomaniac dictator in charge of an arsenal of nuclear weapons.”
In October 2017, Kimmel said “not one breathing human on the planet earth produces more fake news than Donald Trump.”
Attacks on Trump like these continued throughout Trump’s first term and his second. When Trump was reelected, Kimmel was practically in tears during his opening monologue.
“That was the worst Taco Tuesday of my whole life,” Kimmel said of the election. “We had the choice between a prosecutor and a criminal, and we chose the criminal to be President of the United States. More than half of this country voted for the criminal who's planning to pardon himself for his crimes.”
He continued, “This Donald Trump, he's like, he's like the emperor from Star Wars. He's old, he's evil, and he keeps coming back with no reasonable explanation whatsoever."
Here’s more:
Let's be honest. It was a terrible night last night. It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of, of hardworking immigrants who make this country go. Um, for healthcare, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech. It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth, and democracy, and decency. And it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and guess what? It was a bad night for everyone who voted for him, too. You just don't realize it yet.
And, and most of all, most of all, it was an absolute disaster of a night for Melania. But it was a really good night for Putin and for polio and for lovable billionaires like Elon Musk and the bros up in Silicon Valley and all the wriggling brain worms who sold what was left of their souls to bow down to Donald Trump.
This is the kind of rhetoric he’s be spewing for years.
Sean Hannity actually had a good compilation of Kimmel’s anti-Trump rhetoric over the years on his show Wednesday night:
Kimmel's on-air removal is long overdue pic.twitter.com/9LSKlShf2w
— Sean Hannity 🇺🇸 (@seanhannity) September 18, 2025
It’s only a fraction of what he really said, folks. And yet, suddenly, we’re supposed to believe that Kimmel was “silenced” for his anti-Trump views? Please. That narrative doesn’t pass the laugh test.
The truth is much simpler: Kimmel wasn’t sidelined by ABC/Disney because he criticizes Trump. He was suspended because he crossed a line—peddling false information about Charlie Kirk’s assassin, a direct violation of FCC regulations.
Let’s be clear here. For years, Kimmel has spewed vitriol at Trump and conservatives without consequence. Why? Because having an opinion doesn’t violate FCC regulations. And yet, Kimmel was just one of many in broadcasting spewing hateful rhetoric about Trump, like Colbert, whose late show was canceled because it was bleeding money, not because of Trump, no matter what the left says.
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But the left can’t admit that, because it shatters their carefully crafted victim narrative. Instead, they’re spinning this as some Orwellian crackdown on free speech—as though Kimmel were bravely speaking truth to power and got punished for it. That’s nonsense. If ABC were actually silencing people for being anti-Trump, both Kimmel and Colbert would have been canceled years ago.
As I predicted, the left wants to turn Kimmel into a martyr, hoping his suspension can be spun as an assault on free speech because if there’s anything the left knows how to do, it’s how to play the victim card. But this is gaslighting at its finest. Nobody silenced Kimmel for being anti-Trump. He got suspended because he abused his platform to spread dangerous falsehoods about a horrific crime—and in doing so, he put ABC and Disney in legal jeopardy.*
* - And his ratings were collapsing, and they probably wanted an excuse to axe him anyway.
