What Jimmy Kimmel stated about Charlie Kirk that led to being pulled off air ‘indefinitely’

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night present has been suspended ‘indefinitely’ as a result of feedback he made about Charlie Kirk’s capturing.

The TV star and comic’s long-running chat present is being pulled off air by broadcaster ABC, it was introduced on Wednesday (17 September).

The shock suspension of Jimmy Kimmel Stay! comes after the host made a collection of remarks in regards to the capturing of right-wing political activist Kirk.

Kimmel claimed that supporters of Donald Trump have been weaponising the 31-year-old’s demise to ‘rating political factors’ – whereas taking the mick out of the President’s response to Kirk being gunned down.

Kirk handed away on 10 September after he was fatally shot within the neck whereas talking at an occasion at Utah Valley College.

Following a 33-hour manhunt, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson was taken into custody in reference to the incident.

He has since been charged with aggravated homicide, fee of a violent offence within the presence of a kid, two counts of witness tampering, two counts of obstruction of justice and felony discharge of a firearm.

Prosecutors are in search of the demise penalty.

Earlier this week, Kimmel mentioned the capturing of Kirk and Robinson’s subsequent arrest in his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Stay!

Check out what he needed to say right here:



On Monday (15 September), Kimmel informed viewers: “We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately attempting to characterise this child [Robinson] who murdered Charlie Kirk as something apart from considered one of them and with the whole lot they will to attain political factors from it.

“In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the White House flew the flags at half-staff, which obtained some criticism. However on a human degree, you may see how onerous the president is taking this…”

Footage of Trump being requested by reporters about how he was holding up following the demise of Kirk was then performed, throughout which the commander-in-chief directs everybody’s consideration to the continuing building of the brand new ballroom for the White House.

Kimmel then continued: “Sure, he is on the fourth stage of grief. Building. Demolition, building…This isn’t how an grownup grieves the homicide of somebody he known as a buddy.

“That is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish, okay? And it did not simply occur as soon as,” he stated, earlier than taking part in additional footage of Trump deflecting questions on Kirk’s demise and as a substitute mentioning the constructing work.

“There’s one thing unsuitable with him,” the late-night present veteran added, earlier than questioning the President’s motivations for constructing the ballroom.

Kimmel went on: “Is it doable that he is doing it deliberately so we could possibly be mad about that as a substitute of the Epstein checklist? By the point he is out of workplace, the White House could have slot machines in a water slide.”

He then joked that Trump was at present working in ‘main change-the-subject mode’ throughout conversations, whereas additionally taking swipes at vice-president JD Vance.

ABC – a community owned by Disney – then introduced that Jimmy Kimmel Stay! can be faraway from its schedule for the foreseeable.

A spokesperson stated in an announcement: “Jimmy Kimmel Stay! might be preempted indefinitely.”