Washington.- The president of the United States, Donald Trump, described this Tuesday as “good news” that the television program of comedian Jimmy Kimmel has been canceled from the ABC network, after in one of its broadcasts he referred to the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, murdered on September 10.
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The leader called Kimmel “a complete loser” and emphasized that, according to him, his audience ratings “are terrible”. The Jimmy Kimmel Live program, broadcast nightly on ABC, a network owned by Disney, was canceled after the host mocked the impact Kirk’s death had on President Trump on Monday, and aired a clip recorded last week in which a journalist asks the president how he was dealing with the assassination and he replies: “I think very well”, going directly to make comments about the construction of the new White House ballroom. In that same broadcast, Kimmel said that “the MAGA gang desperately tried to label this guy (Tyler Robinson), who murdered Charlie Kirk, as anything but one of them and to do everything possible to gain political advantage”. Nexstar, the company legally responsible for ABC, issued a statement in which it stated that “strongly opposes the recent comments made by Mr. Kimmel about the assassination of Charlie Kirk and will replace the program with other programming in its ABC-affiliated markets.” Trump used his message about the cancellation of the Jimmy Kimmel program to also call for the suspension of Seth Meyers’ late-night show on NBC, which he called a “loser” and criticized for its low ratings and media coverage that he considers biased. These actions by the leader against media personnel are in addition to his multimillion-dollar lawsuit against The New York Times and his episode of silencing an Australian reporter at the White House when questioned about his business dealings.
