ABC faces renewed Trump backlash as Kimmel says comments 'not, by any stretch' call for violence
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- President Donald Trump is reviving calls this week for Disney-owned ABC to pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air in yet another test for late night TV during the Republican president's second term.
- In a subsequent monologue on Monday night, Kimmel addressed the backlash, saying the remark was "a joke about their age difference." He added that it was "not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination.
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President Donald Trump is reviving calls this week for Disney-owned ABC to pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel off the air in yet another test for late night TV during the Republican president's second term.
While it's not the first time Kimmel has faced backlash over a show monologue — his show was briefly suspended in September after broadcast station owners threatened to disrupt the program following comments about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk — the renewed challenges now fall under freshly installed Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro, who took the helm last month.