{"id":137332,"date":"2025-09-12T09:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137332\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T09:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T09:03:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-criticizes-trumps-response-to-charlie-kirks-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/137332\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Criticizes Trump’s Response to Charlie Kirk’s Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJimmy Kimmel<\/a> used his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a> last night to respond to the death of Charlie Kirk<\/a> and to discuss why Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s reaction has been so problematic. <\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel described Kirk\u2019s shooting death earlier this week as \u201ca senseless murder.\u201d \u201cHis death has amplified our anger, our differences,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cAnd I\u2019ve seen a lot of extraordinarily vile responses to this from both sides of the political spectrum. Some people are cheering this, which is something I won\u2019t ever understand. We had another school shooting yesterday in Colorado, the hundredth one of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued, \u201cWith all of these terrible things happening, you would think that our president would at least make an attempt to bring us together. But he didn\u2019t.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tKimmel shared a series of X posts from past presidents, including Barack Obama and George W. Bush. \u201cPresident Obama did,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cPresident Biden did. Presidents Bush and Clinton did. President Trump did not. Instead, he blamed Democrats for their rhetoric. The man who told a crowd of supporters that maybe the Second Amendment people should do something about Hillary Clinton. The man who said he wouldn\u2019t mind if someone shot through the fake news media. The man who unleashed a mob on the Capitol, and said Liz Cheney should face nine barrels shooting at her for supporting his opponent, blames the radical left for their rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKirk was\u00a0shot dead<\/a>\u00a0Wednesday while speaking to students at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah. The\u00a0right-wing<\/a>\u00a0political influencer and activist, who co-founded\u00a0Turning Point USA<\/a>\u00a0to foster a culture of conservatism on school campuses around the nation, was 31. News of Kirk\u2019s death generated shock throughout the U.S. political ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing his death, Kimmel posted on Instagram<\/a>, encouraging people to respond thoughtfully. \u201cInstead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human?\u201d Kimmel wrote. \u201cOn behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents, and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tStephen Colbert also addressed the incident on The Late Show earlier this week, noting, \u201cI am old enough to personally remember the political violence of the 1960s, and I hope it is obvious to everyone in America that political violence does not solve any of our political differences. Political violence only leads to more political violence. And I pray with all my heart that this is the aberrant action of a madman and not a sign of things to come.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tLast night, Colbert added a \u201cmessage of unity\u201d to his monologue. \u201cHowever you feel about his politics he was a young father of two small children and an American who has the constitutional right to express his opinion in safety,\u201d Colbert said. \u201cIt should go without saying that violence is never the answer to political disagreement.\u201d <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel used his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live last night to respond to the death of Charlie…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,92325,2490,134,4625,59932,28684,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-137332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-charlie-kirk","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","15":"tag-late-night-tv","16":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}