Trump Finally Addresses ‘Not Funny’ Kimmel’s Victorious Return

Jimmy Kimmel returns to ABC tonight, incensing the President who, just last week, thought that he had finally silenced his old enemy for good.

Yesterday morning, the Walt Disney Company lifted the “indefinite suspension” of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and its host just five days after FCC chairman Brendan Carr successfully intimidated two of the largest owners of ABC affiliates, Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcasting Group, into pre-empting the show under threat of pulling their broadcasting licenses. Following massive public backlash and the launching of a petition signed by over 400 celebrities (including many of Disney’s biggest stars), Disney backed off of its capitulation to Carr’s threats, promising that Kimmel will return to his regularly scheduled programming un-muzzled and unleashed.

President Donald Trump, who has been calling for Kimmel’s head for years and who directly instructed Disney to cancel Jimmy Kimmel Live! immediately following Paramount’s decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, has now taken to his own social media platform Truth Social to protest Kimmel’s imminent return to TV, declaring, “Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings” as millions viewers across the country wait to find out what Kimmel will say now.

Following the decision by Disney CEO Bob Iger to suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live! after Nexstar and Sinclair condemned the host’s criticism of how the President handled the murder of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, Trump gloated about the seeming cancellation of his least-favorite late-night host, though he played down the role that the public threats from his FCC chair played in the decision.

Trump blamed Kimmel’s “lack of talent” for the sudden suspension, adding that, in his opinion, “Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk.” Trump also said of ABC and Disney, “They should have fired him a long time ago, so you know, you can call that free speech or not.”

Now, with Kimmel free to continue mocking Trump with whatever speech he chooses while the world awaits his next monologue, Trump is seething — but he’s probably also watching.