Jimmy Kimmel’s wife had a few pointed words for President Donald Trump.
Speaking at the Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment breakfast on Wednesday, Molly McNearney — who also is the executive producer of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” — reflected on the significance of “freedom of speech,” a principle she admitted she once “took for granted.”
She recalled the September period when her husband’s show was pulled off the air over comments about far-right podcaster Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer. McNearney emphasized the fallout that followed.
“I watched a show and co-workers and friends and a man I love be put on ‘indefinite suspension’ after our thin-skinned president asked for his removal and his [Federal Communications Commission] chair to publicly threaten the company we work for,” McNearney said. “It is a fragile time for freedom.”
McNearney went on, “Freedom of speech is the foundation on which this great country was built. A freedom that great Americans like James Madison, Frederick Douglass, Alice Paul and a bunch of other people I Googled late last night fought really hard for us to have and to keep.”
