Jimmy Kimmel Returns With Gratitude for Supporters, Barbs for "Anti-American" Calls to Silence Him

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : Maybe the sliver lining is we found one thing we can agree on, and maybe we'll find another one." After the show's first break, Kimmel did a sketch with Robert De Niro playing the new head of the FCC, who made several mobster-like threats and said the commission was now "charging by the word" unless it was complimentary of Trump.
44% : He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution.
44% : Kimmel noted that as of the taping, Trump hadn't said anything: "Maybe he's saving it for his late night toilet time?" ABC also posted the first segments of Tuesday's show to YouTube soon after they aired, allowing viewers in the Nexstar and Sinclair markets to see the first half of the show.
42% : Nor was my intent to blame any specific group for the actions of what was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.
41% : "But I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human that you understand it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man.
22% : " Kimmel also excoriated Trump for the administration's threats against the show, potentially costing the 200 or so people who work on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
22% : In writer E. Jean Carroll's civil suit against Trump, the jury found him liable for sexual abusing and defaming Carroll.
17% : " One person who didn't appreciate Kimmel's return: Trump, who on his Truth Social account ranted that "I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back.
5% : The $16 million Trump refers to in his post is the amount Disney paid to settle a defamation lawsuit Trump brought against ABC and anchor George Stephanopoulos over the latter's incorrect statement in March 2024 that Trump had been found "liable for rape by a jury."

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