Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been taken off air \u201cindefinitely\u201d after the host made controversial comments about Charlie Kirk and US President Donald Trump after the prominent MAGA figure was assassinated in Utah.<\/p>\n
Kirk died after being shot at a speaking event at Utah Valley University campus.<\/p>\n
Following his assassination, which authorities believe was politically motivated, a manhunt for a suspect was launched, which led to the arrest of Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old man from Utah.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kimmel, during an episode\u2019s opening monologue, suggested that Mr Robinson was \u201cMAGA\u201d.<\/p>\n In Monday night\u2019s edition of the ABC show, Kimmel said: \u201cWe hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterise this kid (Tyler Robinson) who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel went on to criticise Mr Trump\u2019s response to Kirk\u2019s death, saying the US President was acting like \u201ca four-year-old\u201d.<\/p>\n Following the assassination, Mr Trump ordered flags to be flown at half mast in honour of the Turning Point USA founder\u2019s death, also announcing that he would award Kirk posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not how an adult grieves the murder of somebody he called a friend. This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, OK?\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n Outrage was quick, and ABC, which is owned by Disney, pulled Kimmel\u2019s show on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live! will be pre-empted indefinitely,\u201d an ABC spokesman told NBC News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Nexstar Media Group, an affiliate network that owns stations that aired Jimmy Kimmel Live!, pulled the show off their channels first, before Disney\u2019s ABC followed.<\/p>\n \u201cNexstar Media Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXST), today announced that the company\u2019s owned and partner television stations affiliated with the ABC Television Network will preempt \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d for the foreseeable future beginning with tonight\u2019s show,\u201d the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cNexstar strongly objects to recent comments made by Mr Kimmel concerning the killing of Charlie Kirk and will replace the show with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.<\/p>\n President of Nexstar\u2019s broadcasting division, Andrew Alford, said: \u201cMr Kimmel\u2019s comments about the death of Mr Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time in our national political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions, views, or values of the local communities in which we are located.<\/p>\n \u201cContinuing to give Mr Kimmel a broadcast platform in the communities we serve is simply not in the public interest at the current time, and we have made the difficult decision to preempt his show in an effort to let cooler heads prevail as we move toward the resumption of respectful, constructive dialogue.\u201d<\/p>\n Following Kirk\u2019s assassination, Kimmel took to Instagram to call out the shooting.<\/p>\n \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 on Instagram.<\/p>\n \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 Kimmel has not apologised for his comments and is yet to comment on Jimmy Kimmel Live! being pulled off air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Live! has been taken off air \u201cindefinitely\u201d after the host made controversial comments about Charlie Kirk…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2331,43,44,41,39,42,40,2957,1720],"class_list":["post-150881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-culture","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150881","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=150881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}