{"id":463188,"date":"2025-12-21T23:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463188\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:50:18","slug":"really-great-year-for-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463188\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Really Great Year&#8221; For Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> will risk poking the bear that is <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>, with a televised Christmas speech reflecting on a \u201creally great year\u201d for fascism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKimmel has been booked by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/channel-4\/\" id=\"auto-tag_channel-4\" data-tag=\"channel-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Channel 4<\/a> to deliver the UK network\u2019s annual Alternative Christmas Message, which broadcasts on Christmas Day, a little after King Charles III\u2019s address to the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tChannel 4 has not released the contents of Kimmel\u2019s speech, but the late-night host is expected to opine on the state of free speech and declare: \u201cFrom a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKimmel will reflect on his own brush with the Trump administration after <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/abc\/\" id=\"auto-tag_abc\" data-tag=\"abc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> briefly suspended him over clumsy comments he made following the death of Charlie Kirk. He later apologized for the remarks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe incident prompted outcry in America and beyond, with many considering Federal Communications Commission boss Brendan Carr\u2019s threats to punish ABC as an attempt to silence Trump\u2019s critics. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA Channel 4 insider said Kimmel\u2019s speech will be tonally warm, but with an underlying serious message. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tA spokesperson said: \u201cDonald Trump\u2019s return to the White House and wide-ranging impact on the world has been the story of 2025 and it would be hard to think of a better person to address it than Jimmy Kimmel, who has found himself on the frontline of America\u2019s battle over free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFirst screened in 1993, Channel 4\u2019s Alternative Christmas Message has served as an alternative to the monarch\u2019s annual televised address,  bringing viewers a thought-provoking and personal reflection on the events of the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThose who have delivered the speech previously include Stephen Fry, Danny Dyer, and a deepfake of Queen Elizabeth II.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel will risk poking the bear that is Donald Trump, with a televised Christmas speech reflecting on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8811,38387,69,171,11171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-463188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-abc","9":"tag-channel-4","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115760242833738032","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463188","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=463188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}