ABC announced Wednesday that Jimmy Kimmel Live! would be off the air indefinitely following comments regarding speculation swirling around the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk.
ABC announced Wednesday it’s pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air indefinitely. The sudden move followed threats from the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to the stations that carry the show, and backlash to comments Kimmel made this week about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
An ABC spokesperson told NPR Wednesday evening that „Jimmy Kimmel Live will be preempted indefinitely.“
During his monologue on Monday, Kimmel took a few jabs at President Trump, as he has done many times. He made fun of Trump’s seemingly indifferent response to a reporter’s question about Charlie Kirk’s killing as Kirk was speaking at Utah Valley University Sept. 10. A 22-year-old Utah man has been arrested and charged in the fatal shooting.
But it was what Kimmel said right before that that upset people, including Trump: „We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang 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.
