{"id":304481,"date":"2025-11-21T04:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T04:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T04:05:09","slug":"trump-steps-up-attacks-on-abc-and-jimmy-kimmel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/304481\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump steps up attacks on ABC and Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 President Trump stepped up his attacks against ABC and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday, urging the network to \u201cget the bum off the air\u201d in a social media post sent shortly after the comic\u2019s latest episode ended.<\/p>\n

The president this week had also expressed anger at the network\u2019s chief White House correspondent, Mary Bruce<\/a>, for questions she asked in an Oval Office meeting, which his press staff followed with a 17-point memo listing grievances against ABC News.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s latest attack against Kimmel came two months after ABC temporarily suspended the comic<\/a> for remarks made following the assassination of GOP activist Charlie Kirk. ABC lifted the suspension following a public outcry.<\/p>\n

Kimmel\u2019s show Wednesday night began with a blistering monologue about Trump, the first 10 minutes concentrated on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Congress\u2019 vote this week to release more material from Epstein\u2019s correspondence. He noted the country was carefully following the movements of \u201cHurricane Epstein.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are ever closer to answering the question: What did the president know, and how old were these women when he knew it?\u201d Kimmel said, riffing off a question Sen. Howard Baker Jr. asked about Richard Nixon during the Watergate saga in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

Trump struck back in a Truth Social post sent at 12:49 a.m. Eastern<\/a>. \u201cWhy does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air? Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it?\u201d Trump said. The latter was a reference to ABC affiliates, some of whom got the movement toward Kimmel\u2019s brief suspension started in September by complaining about his Kirk content.<\/p>\n

ABC said it would not comment about Trump\u2019s statement on Kimmel, whose ratings saw a bump upon his return to the air in September. While Trump associated him with ABC News, Kimmel works for the network\u2019s entertainment division.<\/p>\n

Kimmel isn\u2019t the only late-night comic to draw Trump\u2019s ire lately. Over the weekend, he called for the firing of NBC\u2019s Seth Meyers.<\/p>\n

The Epstein case was one of three topics that ABC\u2019s Bruce asked about in pointed questions during an Oval Office news conference Tuesday. The president called Bruce a \u201cterrible reporter\u201d and said he didn\u2019t like her attitude. The Epstein story has clearly gotten under Trump\u2019s skin. Late last week, Trump referred to a Bloomberg News reporter, Catherine Lucey, as \u201cpiggy\u201d during a question-and-answer session on Air Force One.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the White House press office released a letter outlining grievances against ABC News, some dating back to the president\u2019s first term. \u201cABC \u2018News\u2019 is not journalism,\u201d the press office said. \u201cIt\u2019s a Democrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among the complaints: George Stephanopoulos\u2019 inaccurate claim that Trump had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll, for which ABC\u2019s parent Disney Corp. agreed to pay $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit; the network\u2019s fact-checking of Trump during his 2024 presidential debate with Kamala Harris; and former ABC correspondent Terry Moran calling Trump aide Stephen Miller a \u201cworld-class hater.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was no immediate comment from ABC News about the criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 President Trump stepped up his attacks against ABC and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[92678,28,88,793,111,1505,92,795,800],"class_list":["post-304481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-assassination-of-charlie-kirk","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-general-news","tag-politics","tag-television","tag-tv","tag-u-s-news","tag-washington-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304481","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=304481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}