Jimmy Kimmel pranced back on air to a standing ovation and then implied he too was a victim in all this. Yes, really. His ugly was showing with the first line he delivered after the cacophony from the sycophants subsided. 

After a nearly week-long suspension, the ABC star taped a new episode on Tuesday evening, and he spoke at length about the controversy that enveloped the show, according to audience members who spoke with CNN afterward.

There were several minutes of applause when Kimmel walked out on stage. The eruption of support was so loud “it was ear damaging to be honest,” Kevin Winhard said.

How wonderful for Jimmy that Disney caved and brought him back on stage and wasn’t required to actually apologize. 

Keep in mind that NextStar and Sinclair broadcasting companies were reading the room with their viewers and advertisers. His show won’t air on those stations. 

Idiot celebrities lamented over the Jimmy getting canceled for his speech. The same celebrities cheered over people getting canceled for words, not wearing masks, not getting the jab, and so much more. 

Here comes Jimmy with a monologue that doesn’t include any apology whatsoever. Digs at Trump? Totally fine.

As I was saying before I was interrupted … If you’re just joining us, we are preempting a regularly scheduled encore episode of “Celebrity Family Feud” to bring you this special report. I’m happy to be here tonight.

Did you catch that first line? Sound familiar? It’s what President Trump said after his very first rally ….AFTER he was nearly assassinated. 

The left really equates Kimmel’s suspension with Kirk’s assassination. It’s stupefying

— Drew Shirley Law (@drewshirleylaw) September 24, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t nearly assassinated as President Trump was. He was suspended for telling his viewers that Charlie Kirk’s assassin was a right winger and essentially implying that Charlie deserved it. Yet here he comes channeling all the rest of his left wing friends and supporters. You see, Jimmy was a victim too! 

No. He was not. He and the show writers put that monologue together and approved it. I can guarantee you that they all knew Kirk’s assassin was not only left-wing, he was heavily into the transgender madness.

But Jimmy has had an axe to grind for a very long time against Trump. And so, last night’s ‘LOOK AT MEEEEE!’ monologue paints him as the victim who didn’t mean what he said, but offers no apology for it. 

According to some, he threaded the needle to meet the moment. 

What unfolded was not just deft television. It was a masterclass in rhetorical balance, pairing vulnerability with principle, contrition with defiance. Kimmel didn’t just thread the needle — he turned the act itself into a lesson in how free expression can survive, even in a culture addicted to outrage.

Kimmel began in a register we rarely see on late-night television: raw grief. His voice cracked as he recounted Kirk’s death, a note he later hit while describing Erika Kirk’s remarkable act of forgiveness for her husband’s killer. “That’s a true Christian belief,” Kimmel said, aligning himself with a grace that seemed to humble him. He spoke not as a satirist or provocateur, but as a human being reckoning with loss.

He also addressed his own words — the ones that had ignited the firestorm. He was contrite, insisting that he had never meant to say the shooter was MAGA, but suggesting instead that he was pointing to the immediate politicization of the tragedy by MAGA figures themselves. He admitted that he, too, had politicized in that moment.

Was he REALLY contrite? If you watch his entire monologue, was there an apology in there? Anywhere? According to Jimmy, it’s too bad that some people (implication MAGA people) felt his stating unequivocally that Charlie’s assassin was a right wing MAGA lunatic, was “ill-timed.” 

“I understand that to some, that felt either ill-timed or unclear, or maybe both, and for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you’re upset,” he added, referencing ABC parent Disney’s explanation for the show’s suspension.

While Kimmel didn’t directly apologize for his Kirk comments, he noted: “I don’t think the murderer who shot Charlie Kirk represents anyone. This is a sick person who believes violence is a solution, and it isn’t.”

No, Jimmy gets it. But he refuses to acknowledge that his remarks weren’t “unclear.” They were very clear. He flat out stated Robinson was MAGA knowing full well his lemming viewers would soak it up like a sponge. 

He just doesn’t think the murderer who wrote Dem talking points on the bullets and talked in the way he and his friends all do about conservatives represents ANYONE. That has to be the grossest clown nose on/clown nose off maneuver ever.

— Carl Paulus (@CarlPaulus) September 24, 2025

What he did last night was imply that he was a victim as well. How dare people hold him accountable for his words? How dare the owners of the company who pay his salary hold him accountable for ensuring his words don’t negatively impact their brand??

What Jimmy refuses to understand is that he was called out for saying something was true. He LIED on purpose. Disney made the decision to suspend him. For Jimmy to get up last night and essentially claim he was a victim in all this while pointing all the fingers at others, shows his arrogant ugliness. 

This from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet nails it perfectly. 

“Kimmel is an unrepentant liar who tried to blame Charlie’s assassination on the part of the country that just spent the last 2 weeks praying and holding vigils,” he wrote.

He added: ‘It’s critical that liars admit they lied. There can be no restoration without that. Anything short of that is a fake and scripted cry line.’

Jimmy Kimmel is not a victim in this. Period. 

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