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News Breaks That Late Night Talk Show Host Jimmy Kimmel was canceled for his comments on Senate Minority Leader Charlie Kirk Chuck Schumer Enter social media to question the motivation behind the sudden cancellation.
Schumer asked on a Thursday afternoon postal On X, whether “Epstein” is “the real reason”, Kimmel is forcibly scrubbed from the radio waves. “Is Epstein the real reason Trump canceled Kimmel?!” Schumer asked in the Post, which also included a screenshot of the New York Times on how all popular late-night hosts, including Kimmel, used the newly released Epstein documents to bake the president to connect with him with the shameful financiers.
Fox News Digital contacted Schumer’s representatives for more details about what Schumer was trying to imply, but did not receive a timely response from the publication.
Senator Chuck Schumer raised the possibility of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night performance because of his statement about Jeffrey Epstein (right). (Getty Image)
Nexstar Media Group, which has hundreds of TV stations, announced on Wednesday that it will be La Kimmel’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Its ABC branch’s talk show “in the foreseeable future” and replaced other shows with its comments on the so-called Charlie Kirk Assassin Taylor Robinson.
“Mr. Kimmel’s comments on Mr. Kirk’s death are offensive and insensitive at a critical moment in our national political discourse and we do not think they reflect the views, opinions or values of the local communities we are in,” Nexstar broadcast chief Andrew Alford said in a press release. “Continuing to provide Mr. Kimmel with a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest and we have made difficult decisions to get his performance first so that we can work to restore respectful, constructive dialogue.”
trump card Talking about Thursday’s cancellation When he was in the UK, he told reporters that Kimmel was “fired” because of his poor ratings.
President Donald Trump served as a guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on December 16, 2015. (Randy Holmes/Disney General Entertainment via Get Images)
“Jimmy Kimmel Charlie Kirk. Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented guy, he has a poor viewership and they should have fired him a long time ago. “Trump said at a press conference in England with Prime Minister Keir Starmer at a press conference on Thursday,” Trump added.
Meanwhile, on Wednesday night, Trump called the cancellation of “good news for the United States” in a social media post on Truth Social on his platform.
Kirk’s comments reportedly originated from the Monday airing of Kimmel’s show, during which he accused conservatives of reaching a “new low” in efforts to fix Kirk’s assassin on some form of left-wing ideology.
Jimmy Kimmel commented on the assassination of Conservative activist Charlie Kirk (right), and Jimmy Kimmel’s popular late-night show was cancelled. (David Russell/Disney via Getty Images; AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
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“We had some new lows over the weekend, and the Margot Gang desperately tried to describe the child who murdered Charlie Kirk, except for one of them, and did everything possible to get political points from it.”
After the cancellation of the news, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr praised the local TV station and asked to “stand up and serve the interests of his community.”
Joseph Wulfsohn and Alex Nitzberg of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
