{"id":178937,"date":"2025-09-24T16:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178937\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:50:09","slug":"kimmel-return-teaches-bob-iger-a-hard-lesson-about-trump-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/178937\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Return Teaches Bob Iger a Hard Lesson About Trump Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Other than Jimmy Kimmel himself, the only person who had as much to gain or lose on Tuesday night from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-09-24\/kimmel-takes-conciliatory-tone-on-return-to-abc-late-night-show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">comedian\u2019s return<\/a> to late-night television was Bob Iger, the chief executive officer of Walt Disney Co.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">It had ultimately been Iger\u2019s call to sideline Kimmel \u2014 a decision that would have seemed unthinkable three years ago when he returned to Disney for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2022-11-22\/disney-s-ceo-boomerang-reveals-bob-iger-s-biggest-failing?srnd=undefined\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">second run at the top job<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Other than Jimmy Kimmel himself, the only person who had as much to gain or lose on Tuesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[46632,11637,102,88,2808,2114,100948,2819,2427,92,3266,106274,3123],"class_list":["post-178937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-bob-iger","tag-chief-executive-officer","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-florida","tag-las-vegas","tag-muslim","tag-ron-desantis","tag-travel","tag-tv","tag-view","tag-walt-disney-co-the","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}