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Jimmy Kimmel Planned to DOUBLE DOWN and ATTACK MAGA Before His Suspension — ABC Execs Ordered an Apology, But He Wrote a “VERY HOT” Anti-MAGA Monologue Instead
Gateway Pundit ^ | September 19, 2025 | Jim Hᴏft

Posted on 09/19/2025 6:42:14 AM PDT by Red Badger

Disney’s crumbling empire just hit another disaster, this time thanks to late-night clown Jimmy Kimmel.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Disney’s top brass, CEO Bob Iger and co-chair Dana Walden, made the decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! after the disgraced host refused to apologize for falsely pinning the tragic assassination of Charlie Kirk on Trump supporters.

Instead of showing an ounce of humility, Kimmel doubled down and prepared a fiery, anti-MAGA tirade that executives feared would “fan the flames.”

ABC insiders revealed that affiliate owners and advertisers were in open revolt.

By Wednesday, 66 of the 200 affiliate stations had already threatened to black out Kimmel’s program, while corporate sponsors jammed the phone lines with demands for accountability. Nexstar and Sinclair, two of the largest affiliate groups, told Disney flat out: pull Kimmel, or we will.

His team reportedly prepped a “very hot monologue” targeting MAGA directly, not an apology.

Disney executives realized that letting him go on-air would ignite an even bigger firestorm, especially as FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr blasted Kimmel’s lies during a podcast appearance earlier in the week.

The Hollywood Reporter reported:

Inside of ABC, “multiple conversations” with Kimmel were had at the “executive level,” the first person says, though the talks had not yet reached Bob Iger or TV head Dana Walden. The execs wanted to know: How was Kimmel going to address the situation on Wednesday night’s show?

The answer was not satisfactory to management, sources say. Meanwhile, the advertiser calls began to roll in and then the big affiliate conglomerates, Nexstar and Sinclair, threatened to preempt the show. The second source says that the blowback was snowballing enough that had ABC not acted, Kimmel’s show would have been dark in a large swath of the country, even beyond the Sinclair and Nexstar territories (including in the Washington, D.C., metro area).

The situation became a safety issue as Disney employees saw their emails doxxed, per the first source — some even received death threats. Disney wanted Kimmel to address the situation in a way that “would take down the temperature,” but what he had planned was “going to fan the flames with the MAGA fan base,” the source says.

A source at Jimmy Kimmel Live! counters to THR that Kimmel’s planned on-air address was not “making it worse,” but that he simply “wasn’t kowtowing” to the outrage.

Kimmel was “defending what he said [as] being grossly mischaracterized by a certain group of people,” the show source says.

Fox News host Jesse Watters delivered a blistering takedown of the scandal.

Watters: “Little Jimmy Kimmel thought he was bigger than Disney—bigger than Mickey Mouse. Charlie Kirk’s body isn’t even buried, and ABC affiliates are refusing to air his show. They’re on the brink of an advertiser boycott, and this guy’s not even in first place.

And he says, “Let’s go another round.” So the boss said, “Take a breather, Jimmy. You’re costing us a fortune and making us look like we don’t have a conscience.”

After the biggest assassination since Martin Luther King, the face of your network can’t lie about the shooting and pin it on MAGA. Sounds like an easy call to me. But the left thinks America, as a country, is finished. This is a major moment in American history.”


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: charliekirk; copypastetgp; fakewaypundit; hoftisafairy; kimmel
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To: Red Badger
Everyone has missed Jimmy Kimmel's motive and MO here!

He sees a niche market for himself. He wants to be another 'Joe Rogan'.

Right now he's in the angry, "flipping the bird" to establishment media stage.

21 posted on 09/19/2025 7:08:55 AM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: Red Badger
SNL and the networks late night producers should have listened to . . .

Johnny

22 posted on 09/19/2025 7:12:51 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: Bob434

obvuously. LOL!


23 posted on 09/19/2025 7:17:21 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: Red Badger

Wait, which is it.. the FCC or the bosses at abc?

I need someone to tell me who to hate today.


24 posted on 09/19/2025 7:17:57 AM PDT by Celerity
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To: Red Badger

Oh.

So.

It wasn’t dictator Trump who got him fired

It was his own words, that angered his employer, who canned his ass .


25 posted on 09/19/2025 7:19:00 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Oh my word, i give yp. My typing is beyond pathetic this am


26 posted on 09/19/2025 7:19:11 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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To: Red Badger

Kimmel wrote a very hot anti MAGA monologue? I highly doubt it, I don’t think he could write a check without a crew of writers now a days, he has become so dependent on a whole crew of writers to put vindictive hateful words in his mouth.


27 posted on 09/19/2025 7:19:23 AM PDT by Mastador1
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To: Delta 21

Well, they say Kimmel has a lot in common with Weinstein and is lucky he didn’t get caught in the Me Too stuff. Jimmy is a pig.


28 posted on 09/19/2025 7:19:59 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: cuz1961

The advertisers were threatening to pull their ads.

Without advertising, a show is non-existent...............


29 posted on 09/19/2025 7:21:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Bob434

Not enough coffee, or too much?


30 posted on 09/19/2025 7:22:45 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE (‘Never trust a man whose uncle was eaten by cannibals’)
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To: larrytown
They're shocked that any opposition is still being made - and they're not going to be bound any longer by constitutional principles or limitations

Correct.

They are going to win unless they are crushed. Are you confident that the right team is on the field to do the crushing?

31 posted on 09/19/2025 7:27:23 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Let it turn to something else, Matty)
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To: Red Badger

Message to Jimmy.

Elections have consequences.

MAGA won by an electoral landslide and a popular vote majority.

Anti-MAGA so-called comedians with less than a year on their contract have NO cards.

Even former so-called comedians who are dictators have more cards than you do.


32 posted on 09/19/2025 7:27:53 AM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Biblebelter

Comedians whose shows are bleeding ratings are doomed to podcasts status..............


33 posted on 09/19/2025 7:29:29 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Delta 21

Li’l Ben Shapiro has also begun sporting the unshaven look. Maybe he thought it would add gravitas.


34 posted on 09/19/2025 7:30:41 AM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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To: Red Badger

Remember when comedians were funny? Pepperidge Farm remembers.


35 posted on 09/19/2025 7:30:53 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Red Badger

Disney finding out they don’t have the clout they thought they had.

Disney is as mad as a hooker that didn’t get paid.


36 posted on 09/19/2025 7:31:11 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

We are seeing a sea change. The not-insane wing of the Dems continues to realize their party as they have known it doesn’t exist anymore.


37 posted on 09/19/2025 7:34:23 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
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To: dfwgator

Comedians still are.

Political hacks, not so much...............


38 posted on 09/19/2025 7:36:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Bob434

LOL! Three in a row!


39 posted on 09/19/2025 7:49:22 AM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Brain fog actually. Im not seeing the mistakes


40 posted on 09/19/2025 8:02:17 AM PDT by Bob434 (Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana)
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