The legacy media are now portraying multi-millionaire Jimmy Kimmel as a victim of censorship after ABC indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! for falsely linking Charlie Kirk’s suspected murderer to MAGA. The irony? Kimmel has repeatedly mocked actual victims of censorship, particularly those silenced by Big Tech.
Let’s rewind to Jan. 8, 2021, when Kimmel gloated over Twitter’s permanent ban of then-President Donald Trump while he was still in office.
“LIVE LOOK – Trump’s bathroom,” Kimmel sneered at the time, sharing a photoshopped image of Trump sitting on a toilet with a phone in hand, displaying the @realDonaldTrump Twitter profile as “Account suspended.” In the image, Trump’s hands appeared smaller, and teardrops were shown on the phone.
LIVE LOOK – Trump’s bathroom pic.twitter.com/r7rivFM2Gi
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) January 9, 2021
Kimmel followed up with the mockery a few minutes later, sharing fake and typo-filled text messages purportedly from Trump. One text read, “Twitter @jack has NO ROGHT to ban your FAVORITE President (ME!),” while another added: “What happened to FREE SPEACH??!!””
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) January 9, 2021
He did not stop there. On Jan. 12, Kimmel kept the hits coming, writing, “Twitter was a way for us to know where Trump was, like when they put a bell on a cow.”
Jimmy Kimmel Live! was reportedly suspended on the orders of Disney CEO Bob Iger and Disney Entertainment Co-Chairman Dana Walden after the Media Research Center exposed video of Kimmel trying to tie Kirk’s suspected murderer to Republicans. The decision followed backlash from major ABC affiliate owners Nexstar and Sinclair, who announced they would no longer air the show.
At the center of the controversy were Kimmel’s comments from the Sept. 15 episode, in which he said:
“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.”
The media’s response to Kimmel’s disturbing accusations has been an attempt to help him save face by portraying him as a victim of authoritarianism. This is unsurprising, as Kimmel has repeatedly attacked Trump and allies as fascists and Nazis.
In November 2023, he quipped that the major differences between Trump and Adolf Hitler were that Hitler was “married to a woman who loved him.”
Following the Jan. 6 protests, Kimmel used a pun to compare former Trump administration officials to Nazis satirically: “Trump Administration resignations are piling up. They did not see this coming. They’re Not-sees.”
Trump Administration resignations are piling up. They did not see this coming. They’re Not-sees.
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) January 8, 2021
Kimmel also portrayed himself as a victim, seeking Italian citizenship in case he needed to flee the country. Also, in 2023, claiming Trump tried to censor him in 2018, smearing Trump as a “fragile little snowflake” and “blowhard.”
“He should change the hats to say ‘Make America Whine Again,’” Kimmel claimed, adding: “We have a First Amendment right that Americans a hell of a lot braver than Donald Trump died for, and it’s especially hypocritical coming from someone who claims to be the biggliest anti-censorship defender of free speech.”
Talk about hypocrisy.
