MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell said Wednesday that President Donald Trump wants the news to focus on Jimmy Kimmel’s ousting at ABC. With no intention of making that wish “come true,” he covered the president’s past ties to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein instead.
“Donald Trump wants us to spend this hour talking about Jimmy Kimmel,” the “Last Word” host said during his monologue. “That’s what he wants, and he has had that wish come true on most cable news tonight. He won’t have that wish come true here.”
O’Donnell continued, “We are going to continue to cover what Donald Trump doesn’t want us to cover. Donald Trump wants an hour of talk about Jimmy Kimmel because he wants to show off his power to do what he did to Jimmy Kimmel. That is what he wants.”
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was suspended on Wednesday by ABC after Kimmel criticized the right-wing response to last week’s fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. An ABC spokesperson told HuffPost the show “will be pre-empted indefinitely.”
O’Donnell covered the story on Wednesday, but spent most of his show on another matter: what he called Trump’s “political and moral problem of the year.”
