MELTDOWN: Trump LOSES IT over Kimmel return to TV

MELTDOWN: Trump LOSES IT over Kimmel return to TV

As Jimmy Kimmel made his return to the airwaves to one of, if not the biggest audiences he’s ever had, there was one viewer in particular who took his return as a personal affront. Donald Trump, who had a little temper tantrum of his own ahead of the broadcast, took to social, writing, “I can’t believe ABC fake news gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that this show was cancelled. Something happened between then and now because his audience is gone and his talent was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat garbage? He is yet another arm of the DNC. And to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major illegal campaign contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after him, they gave me $16 million. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad ratings. Now, here’s the amazing part of this post. Trump’s mouthpieces spent the entire week saying it wasn’t Trump who pressured Disney to pull Kimmel show. It was a business decision. His ratings were low. Trump wouldn’t do that because that would be censorship and Donald Trump is a champion for free speech. In fact, here’s free speech crusader Joe Rogan himself issuing that incredulous claim. If it is that the government tried to silence Jimmy Kimmel because they were trying to push through some sort of a merger and he doesn’t like Jimmy Kimmel. So they try like Yeah, that should be exposed. That’s up. I’m going to need to see some emails. I want to see them emails. Well, there weren’t any emails, but we can do you one better because Trump posted his thoughts publicly onto Truth Social. You don’t even need to find some secretive email because free speech crusader Donald J. Trump just blasted out a threat to sue ABC for airing Kimmel to the whole universe. And it wasn’t just Joe Rogan, by the way. Here is a raft of other Republicans who put themselves on record trying to claim that this was somehow a business decision. I’ve never heard them care about the Constitution so much. Their first amendment, First Amendment, this has nothing to do with the First Amendment. This has to do with a business decision as you noted. So, the decision to suspend and I suspect eventually cancel Kimmel is a business decision by ABC. Uh but similar to Kimmel, he’s getting the boot because, well, he was just bad for business. You can like or not like Disney’s decision on Kimmel, but until I see proof of actual government coercion of their decision, this is about Disney making a business decision about its brand. Yeah, that was a that was obviously a business decision as evidenced by the fact they’re going to reinstate him. I think he’s going to be on the air later tonight. So, so I think it was a business decision. And if ABC wants to suspend you because you got wrong the assassin of Charlie Kirk, more power to them. That’s got nothing to do with the First Amendment. That’s a business decision. Except now it’s going to be pretty difficult for any of these people to claim that this had nothing to do with the federal government when Donald Trump himself posted that Jimmy Kimmel was quote an arm of the DNC and that would be an illegal campaign contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. weird. Doesn’t really feel like a business decision when the president of the United States suggests that your mere presence on television is an illegal campaign contribution on behalf of the Democratic Party now, does it? And yet, even still, that won’t stop the biggest partisan hacks like Jim Jordan, for example, from continuing to tow the party line. Congressman, can can I just read you something? This is what the president of the United States says. I and you tell me whether you think this sounds like coercion or not. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 million. This one sounds even more lucrative. Well, I mean, I don’t think you can you can say this is uh this is the pressure from the government because ABC put him back on. He was I think he I didn’t stay up to watch it, but I think he was back on last night. So, how is that how is that the government’s taking him off the air when in fact the AB themselves, Disney made the decision, oh, we we got two of our of people we do business with, Nextar and Sinclair uh Sinclair I’m saying but you a number of that does sound like pressure from the government right but there’s pressure it may not be successful pressure but it’s pressure from the government um I guess you can you can say maybe some but I I don’t I don’t think that’s what drove this I think this was a business decision see that’s the danger of wedging yourself that far up Trump’s ass because now when new information comes out it takes longer to make its way up there Kimmel for his part took the opportunity to make his thoughts about Donald Trump abundantly clear I am a tiny any part of the Disney Corporation. They welcomed me back on the air and I thank them for that because I know that unfortunately and I think unjustly this puts them at risk. The president of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can’t take a joke. He will. In other words, Kimmel is cleareyed about the threats. All of these Republicans with their heads shoved up Trump’s ass might be content to pretend that the overt pressure he and Brendan Carr imposed on ABC was a business decision or somehow not exactly what it was and what it looks like. But Kimmel isn’t playing that game. And now his entire audience understands, too. which by the way is in large part thanks to Trump himself. The irony should not be lost on us that Donald Trump tried to silence Kimmel and instead handed him the biggest megaphone in recent late night TV history. And don’t just take my word for it. Only gets 240,000. Look how many views Tuesday night’s monologue already has. 6.7 million. That’s over 25 times as large as the median Jimmy Kimmel video normally gets. And I was looking, it is by far the largest video in at least 6 months. So if Donald Trump’s idea was to give Jimmy Kimmel more press and more viewership, he absolutely did so. Of course, I don’t think that is what Donald Trump intended to do. Do do you have any sense beyond YouTube of of just how big his appeal may have been? Like a lot of people wanted to clearly watch this from all facets of not just in America, but you know, this is from around the world. That’s exactly right. So, we got this 6.7 million. I will note that that number is up already about a 700,000 from the last time I checked, which was about an hour ago. But take a look here. Record high Google searches last night for what time is Jimmy Kimmel on. You wouldn’t have to check what time Jimmy Kimmel was on if you were a regular viewer. The reason that people were checking whether at what time Jimmy Kimmel was on because he was pulling potentially pulling in a lot of viewers who normally didn’t watch. And get this, it was up over 10,000%. My goodness gracious. This, of course, dates all the way back since 2004. Basically, since Jimmy Kimmel was first on the air. So, no, it was not just on YouTube. There was a ton of interest what we’re talking about nationwide, worldwide in terms of what time was Jimmy Kimmel on? Because I don’t normally watch him, but maybe I want to take a gander because maybe I’m interested to hear what he has to say. And I should note that as of this recording, that video is now at 13 million views and climbing. All thanks to Trump’s efforts to silence him. Didn’t exactly work out as intended, huh? So, look, to all those Republicans out there who defended Donald Trump before he left you twisting in the wind. I don’t know what’s worse, debasing yourselves for Trump on such a losing issue, the issue of free speech, the First Amendment, or thinking that somehow he wouldn’t throw you under the bus in an instant like he does for everyone. Now you’re all on record attacking free speech, your purported pet issue, all because you’re too much of a partisan hack to say an ill word of the god king. And as for Donald Trump himself, you’ve heard the quote, “When someone shows you who they are, believe them.” He might throw around freedom of speech because it sounds nice at rallies, but this guy is a petty tyrant who is the most anti-free speech politician this country’s ever seen. If he had his way, Jesse Waters would be wearing a pink robe and doing North Korean style state TV every night. This guy is pro- free speech in the same way that he is pro- transparency on the Epstein files. And the only silver lining to this whole bungled episode is that now the entire country can see it. 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