Jimmy Kimmel’s Cancellation Is Peak Hypocrisy
After campaigning on ending censorship and cancel culture, Donald Trump is making the list of things you're not allowed to say in America longer and longer. ABC’s cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show signals that not even comedians are safe.

Last night, ABC announced it was pulling late night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air “indefinitely,” mere hours after Donald Trump and his Federal Communications Commission chairman, Brendan Carr, publicly threatened the network. (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)
“Republicans are the party with a sense of humor,” comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said, chuckling, at last year’s now-infamous Donald Trump rally at Madison Square Garden.
So much for that. In Trump’s America, you are now not only forbidden to criticize a certain foreign country (Israel), post impolitely about corporate executives, or have memes on your phone that mock the vice president. You’re now apparently also not allowed to make jokes about the president or his friends.
Last night, ABC announced it was abruptly pulling late night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show off the air “indefinitely,” mere hours after Trump and his Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman, Brendan Carr, publicly threatened the network. Trump was already unhappy about ABC’s news coverage of his administration, and Carr specifically cited a part of the monologue that Kimmel, who has spent years getting under the president’s skin, delivered this past Monday.