‘You’ve done this before,’ comedian told president, who ranted about Kimmel online and demanded his firing
Early on Thursday morning, Donald Trump made another plea for ABC to fire the late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel, writing on his Truth Social platform that he has “NO TALENT” and “VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS”.
On his show later that night, Kimmel was defiant, poking at the president for his previous attempt this fall to get him fired and suggesting that Trump has clearly been watching his show.
“You’ve done this before. You tried to get me fired in September. It didn’t work,” Kimmel said. “Mr President, I admire your tenacity.”
In mid-September, Kimmel’s show was briefly suspended by ABC under pressure from two of the network’s biggest affiliate partners, Nexstar and Sinclair, not to mention Trump’s handpicked chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, over comments that Kimmel had made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk a few days earlier.
