{"id":38566,"date":"2025-09-26T07:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/38566\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:34:09","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-relentlessly-mocks-bully-trump-in-return-after-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/38566\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel relentlessly mocks \u2018bully\u2019 Trump in return after suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> relentlessly mocked \u201cbully\u201d Donald Trump<\/a> in the second episode of his show to air since he returned from a temporary suspension<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The late-night host wasted no time in setting his sights on the US president, who last week celebrated news of his brief axing<\/a> as \u201cgreat news for America\u201d.<\/p>\n

He told Jimmy Kimmel Live! viewers<\/a> that he talks about Mr Trump more than anything \u201cbecause he\u2019s a bully and I don\u2019t like bullies\u201d.<\/p>\n

In response to Trump saying he couldn\u2019t believe US network ABC<\/a> gave Kimmel his job back, the host referenced the president winning the election for a second time.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t believe they gave me my job back? I can\u2019t believe we gave you your job back! We\u2019re even,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Kimmel also addressed Mr Trump\u2019s suggestion that he had been fired for poor ratings<\/a>, asking: \u201cHas anyone ever been fired for bad ratings on a Wednesday?\u201d<\/p>\n

The screen then showed poor polling for the president, with Kimmel stating: \u201cHe does know bad ratings. He has some of the worst ratings any president has ever had.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kimmel also denied Mr Trump\u2019s claim that the White House had been told his show was cancelled by ABC<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Kimmel returned to the air on Tuesday after a six-day suspension (Disney)<\/p>\n

The host\u2019s series returned on Tuesday, six days after he was suspended for his controversial remarks about the identity of Tyler Robinson<\/a>, the suspected gunman behind the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Upon his initial return to screens, Kimmel said of Mr Trump: \u201cYou almost have to feel sorry for him. He tried. Did his best to cancel me. Instead, he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired bigly.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC\u2019s initial decision to suspend Kimmel came soon after Nexstar Media Group, the largest owner of television stations across the country, said it would no longer air his show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Nexstar owns America\u2019s largest local broadcasting group, made up of top network affiliates, with more than 200 owned or partner stations in 116 US markets reaching 220 million people.<\/p>\n

Hours before the decision was made public, the Trump-appointed chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Brendan Carr, called Kimmel\u2019s words \u201ctruly sick\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The chat show host has traded jibes with Donald Trump after his programme was temporarily suspended, which the president said was \u2018great news\u2019 for America (ABC\/Getty)<\/p>\n

Carr went on to say that his agency could hold ABC, Disney, and Jimmy Kimmel accountable for the comments. He said the comic appeared to be making an intentional effort to mislead the public into believing that Kirk\u2019s assassin was a Trump supporter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-38566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}