WASHINGTON — Jimmy Kimmel predicted his personal demise the day after President Donal Trump received the 2024 election, assuming he was on the president’s “checklist of enemies’’ and may quit — earlier than vowing reverently to maintain his personal “essential voice’’ on air.
Kimmel, who was “indefinitely” sidelined from his eponymous present on Wednesday, advised his sidekick Guillermo in a “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” opening sketch taped after Vice President Kamala Harris’ brutal loss to Trump final November that he was “leaving the nation.”
“I can’t keep for an additional 4 years of this — who is aware of what he’s going to do?” he balked. “You’ve heard him. He mentioned he has an inventory of enemies. You suppose I’m not on that checklist?”
Guillermo, whose full title is Guillermo Rodriguez, countered, “Jimmy, we’d like you to assist us get via this. You’ve a vital voice.”
“I do?” Kimmel replied. “Perhaps you’re proper.”
The TV host then spent his 10-minute, sometimes-teary monologue grousing about Trump’s victory and the way it was “a horrible night time for girls, for kids, for the lots of of hundreds of arduous working immigrants who make this nation go, for well being care, for our local weather, for science, for journalism, for justice, without spending a dime speech.”
“It was a horrible night time for poor folks, for the center class, for seniors who depend on Social Safety, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO and democracy and decency,” he continued in a mawkish tone.
“And it was a horrible night time for everybody who voted towards him. And guess what? It was a foul night time for everybody who voted for him too. You simply don’t understand it but.”
After making a “joke” about sharing a jail cell with Taylor Swift, Kimmel quipped: “We’ll see how humorous that’s in six months. When the nice talkshow host roundup begins.”
Ten months later, ABC executives pulled him off the air — however his rankings had began nose-dived virtually instantly after the election, as he resumed his Trump tirades.
Month-to-month Nielsen figures confirmed “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” fell to only 1.1 million whole viewers in August 2025, had been minimize almost in half from January’s 1.95 million, trailing behind each considered one of his late night time friends.
Kimmel’s August family ranking of 0.35 was his lowest level of the 12 months. Viewers between the ages of 18 and 49 had been his worst demographic.
The “Man Present” alum averaged solely 129,000 viewers in that bracket in August, off from 212,000 in January and fewer than half his June peak of 284,000.
Kimmel was indefinitely canned acquired into hassle early in his monologue Monday night time when he determined to speak concerning the brutal killing of Kirk at an occasion at Utah Valley College in Orem final week.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA gang making an attempt to characterize this child who killed Charlie Kirk as something aside from considered one of them and doing all the things they’ll to attain political factors from it,” he advised the viewers on the El Capitan Leisure Centre in Hollywood, California.
Kirk, 31, was fatally shot amid his “American Comeback” faculty talking tour on the campus of Utah Valley College on Sept. 10.
Tyler Robinson, a “radicalized” 22-year-old with a live-in trans associate, was captured 33 hours later and charged with Kirk’s homicide.
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox had advised The Wall Road Journal in a chunk revealed Sept. 13 that Robinson subscribed to a “leftist ideology.”
Kimmel’s cope with ABC had been slated to run via Could 2026 beneath a three-year extension signed in September 2022 — however he was abruptly pulled earlier than his present aired Wednesday night time.
The $16-million-per-year late-night host has refused to apologize for his remarks throughout his Monday monologue, a part of the explanation that Disney CEO Bob Iger and TV boss Dana Walden pulled the present.
Kimmel reportedly advised execs that he meant to “make clear” his remarks in an upcoming monologue — solely to double down and sign he was going to go after Trump supporters once more.
