LOS ANGELES.–Since 78-year-old President Donald Trump became a GOP presidential candidate in 2015, ABC’s Late Night Host Jimmy Kimmel has been a fierce critic, using Trump as the primary focus of his monologue slamming Trump’s every word to his obviously liberal audience. But what looked like a personal vendetta with Kimmel against Trump now looks like something far more systemic from the top the ABC’s parent company Disney, all the way down to its ABC programming level. No one at ABC or any Disney affiliate spews more hatred toward Trump than Jimmy Kimmel. “Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching I’m surprised you’re still—isn’t it past you jail time?” Kimmel said, responding to Trump backhanded slap of Kimmel who hosted the 2024 Oscars. Kimmel’s obsession with using Trump as content for his monologues has become a regular show feature.
Anyone thinking that Kimmel acts alone, without Disney or ABC executives’ approval, now must accept that Kimmel’s use of Trump as a regular feature in his monologues for the last nine years. Kimmel uses Trump at the brunt of his jokes because it resonates with his liberal audience, obviously driving away 50% of the public that actually likes Trump and intends to vote for him. Why ABC or Disney would not want Kimmel to expand his audience share in late-night is anyone’s guess. You’d think that any TV network earns their advertising revenue based on Nielson ratings, carefully monitoring how many viewers are tuned into its programming. Less viewers in the competitive late-night space translates into lower advertising rates for ABC programs. Kimmel decided long ago that he had an audience that wanted him to go after Trump anytime possible.
Before the current generation of late-night talk shows, political partisanship was strictly avoided. Universally regarded as the king of late-night shows, the late Johnny Carson would never use his monologue or shows to slam one candidate over another, no matter what his politics. Yet the new generation, including CBS Stephen Colbert and even NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, continue to slam primarily Trump. No one obsesses more about Trump than Kimmel but Colbert is certainly close behind, with Fallon still tending to avoid more obvious political attacks. While the fake news tends to slam Trump more regularly for a variety of things, no publication is more anti-Trump than the HuffPost, a fake print outlet that routinely delivers Democrat talking points, using its First Amendment print-time to attack Trump like it’s a sacred duty. HuffPost likes to call Trump “unhinged.”
Trump recently called Kimmel a “dope” who suffers from “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” a term used by the Trump campaign to characterize the fake news that reports nothing positive about the former president. Kimmel is now considered a key part of the Kamala-Walz campaign with an open invitation to either for his late-night show. Whether Kimmel actually gets paid by the Democrat Party isn’t known. But Kimmel plans to rehab Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on his Oct. 7 show, primarily because of recent polling showing, 30 days out from the Nov. 5 election, Kamala losing ground. Walz had dice performance at his Oct. 1 debate with Trump VP pick Sen. J.D. Vance. Walz looked like a deer caught in the headlights for most of the 90 minute debate. Now Kimmel puts him on his show to yuck it up about Trump with his anti-Trump audience.
Trump has been critical of late-night comics largely because, like Kimmel, they pander to a primarily Democrat audience that like using Trump as content in monologues. “All of this on top of really bad ratings for Jimmy [Kimmel], just like failing Bill Maher and the two clowns on CBS and NBC,” Trump said on Truth Social. “NO TALENT EQUALS BAD RATINGS!!!” Trump said. Trump recalls his days hosting NBC’s “Apprentice” and “Celebrity Apprentice,” where Trump was well-aware of ratings when his show competed in the reality TV space [2008-2015]. But the issue with Kimmel using Trump as primary content for the last nine years of his nightly monologues cannot pass unnoticed. His nightly attacks on Trump speak volumes of how Disney and ABC are an integral part of the Democrat party, big supporters in Kamala’s 2004 election bid.
ABC News showed its true colors on Sept. 10 when it hosted Trump’s debate with Vice President Kamala Harris. Voter were treated with a three-on-one debate, with ABC News host David Muir and Linsey Davis going after Trump in the debate as much as Kamala Harris. So when Democrat proclaimed themselves the “winner,” it was with biased referees who had it in for Trump. So how can anyone trust ABC New as anything but a Democrat-controlled news group working feverishly to see Kamala elected president. Kimmel’s nightly attacks are no accident, a carefully orchestrated strategy with ABC and Disney executive committed to electing a Democrat in 2024. How can anyone trust a news organization that doesn’t disclose its political bias? Kimmel’s nightly attacks on Trump are all approved by ABC and Disney executives in close coordination with Democrats and the Kamala campaign.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
