{"id":16765,"date":"2025-09-24T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=16765"},"modified":"2025-09-24T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T09:06:40","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-has-strong-message-for-trump-in-fiery-comeback-monologue-as-show-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/used82.com\/?p=16765","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel has strong message for Trump in fiery comeback monologue as show returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"summary_summary__q_VAA\">There really is no love lost between these two<\/h2>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><strong>Jimmy Kimmel has returned to his show and took shots directly aimed at Donald Trump after the president rejoiced at his suspension.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The comedian didn\u2019t shy away from making more jokes ridiculing\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/donald-trump\">Trump<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>\u00a0on Tuesday night (September 23).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\"><a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/jimmy-kimmel\">Kimmel<\/a>\u00a0was previously suspended for just under a week after he dove into the topic of\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/charlie-kirk\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>\u00a0and the conservatives&#8217; reactions to his assassination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">This including showing clips of\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/film-and-tv\/news\/jimmy-kimmel-said-charlie-kirk-trump-canceled-994387-20250918\">Trump who appeared to sidestep talking about the right-wing activist<\/a>\u00a0in favor of his renovation plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">The following day, ABC said Kimmel&#8217;s show would be &#8216;pre-empted indefinitely&#8217; and while many people rejoiced at this news,\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/film-and-tv\/news\/trump-celebrates-jimmy-kimmel-taken-off-air-214210-20250918\">Trump included<\/a>, others\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/us-news\/jimmy-kimmel-cancelled-charlie-kirk-celeb-reaction-859595-20250918\">called it an assault on free speech<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">In his first opening dialogue after returning to the screen, Kimmel didn\u2019t shy away from mocking the US president.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-image_articleImage__eyzAn\">\n<div class=\"article-image_imageWrapper__ANtPE\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"article-image_image__XvzgU\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ladbible.com\/resize?type=webp&amp;quality=70&amp;width=3840&amp;fit=contain&amp;gravity=auto&amp;url=https:\/\/images.ladbiblegroup.com\/v3\/assets\/blt949ea8e16e463049\/blt3ae5bd46ee10410a\/68d38fca62149493bcee1ec8\/Screenshot_2025-09-24_at_06.48.34.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 430px) 33vw, (max-width: 768px) 50vw, 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Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can\u2019t take a joke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cOne thing I did learn from Lenny Bruce and George Carlin and Howard Stern, is that a government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn\u2019t like is anti-American.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jimmy Kimmel is Back!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1tjh_ZO_tY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">On a more serious note, the TV host addressed those who were critical of his apparent sensitivity while speaking about Kirk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">While holding back tears, he said: \u201cI want to make something clear because it is important to me as a human and that is that it was never my intention to make light of a murder of a young man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cI don\u2019t think there is anything funny about it, I posted a message on Instagram on the day he was killed sending love to his family and asking for compassion and I meant it and I still do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">Kimmel also touched on the comments\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_link__6t7IO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unilad.com\/news\/us-news\/charlie-kirk-erika-forgives-murderer-829252-20250921\">Kirk&#8217;s widow, Erika, made at his memorial<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday (September 21).<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cErika Kirk forgave the man who shot her husband,\u201d he noted. \u201cThat is an example we should follow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">\u201cIt touched me deeply,\u201d Kimmel went on to add. \u201cAnd if there\u2019s anything we should take from this tragedy to carry forward, I hope it can be that, not 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This one sounds even more lucrative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text_text__nEn66\">This was seemingly in reference to the settlement he reached with ABC last year in a defamation lawsuit Trump filed against the network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There really is no love lost between these two Jimmy Kimmel has returned to his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":19,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16767,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16765\/revisions\/16767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/used82.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}