{"id":243890,"date":"2025-09-21T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243890\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T12:46:12","slug":"president-trump-had-no-idea-karoline-leavitt-denies-white-house-role-in-abc-shelving-jimmy-kimmel-blasts-barack-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/243890\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018President Trump had no idea\u2019: Karoline Leavitt denies White House role in ABC shelving Jimmy Kimmel; blasts Barack Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758458772_776_trump.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018President Trump had no idea\u2019: Karoline Leavitt denies White House role in ABC shelving Jimmy Kimmel; blasts Barack Obama\" title=\"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that the administration had any role in ABC\u2019s indefinite shelving of &#8220;Jimmy Kimmel Live!&#8221; following the host\u2019s monologue on the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. She also criticized former President Barack Obama for <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/heart-of-democracy-barack-obama-addresses-charlie-kirk-and-jimmy-kimmel-cases-stresses-defending-free-speech\/articleshow\/123988592.cms\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleging<\/a> that the Donald Trump administration &#8220;threatens&#8221; news organisations critical of the US president.\u201cI can assure you it did not come from the White House and there was no pressure given from the president of the United States. How do I know that? Because I was with the president when this news broke in the United Kingdom,\u201d Leavitt told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<p>Karoline Leavitt &#8216;Skips&#8217; On Trump &#8216;Supporters&#8217; Drama Amid Epstein Backlash During WH Presser<\/p>\n<p>She added that Trump was &#8220;unaware&#8221; of the decision, which she said was made solely by ABC because Kimmel, a vocal Trump critic, \u201cchose to knowingly lie to his audience\u201d about Kirk\u2019s death during a period of national mourning. Leavitt also echoed Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/he-had-bad-ratings-donald-trump-mocks-jimmy-kimmel-calls-him-talentless\/articleshow\/123980173.cms\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">remarks<\/a> that the show was taken off air due to poor ratings, which she described as &#8220;gutter&#8221;.Turning to Obama, Leavitt said, \u201cWith all due respect, he has no idea what he is talking about. The decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel and to cancel his show came from executives at ABC. That has now been reported.\u201d Obama had criticised the current administration on X, writing that it \u201chas taken cancel culture to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn\u2019t like.\u201dKirk, a Trump ally, was shot and killed on September 10 at a university campus in Utah. Kimmel addressed the assassination five days later, criticising Trump supporters for \u201ccharacterising that the killer (Tyler Robinson) is not one of their own.\u201dFederal Communications Commission (FCC) chair Brendan Carr, appointed by Trump earlier this year, had warned of \u201cconsequences\u201d for stations that continued to air Kimmel\u2019s programme. ABC\u2019s decision to shelve the show has sparked widespread discussion and controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt (AP Photo\/Alex Brandon) White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denied that the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":243891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8811,121524,171,50812,8133,4352,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-243890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-charlie-kirk-assassination","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","12":"tag-karoline-leavitt","13":"tag-trump-administration","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115242361935767423","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}