Donald Trump Continues Attack On ABC With Call To Drop Jimmy Kimmel After Late-Night Host Makes Jeffrey Epstein Jokes

Donald Trump went after Jimmy Kimmel again, calling for ABC to remove him from the air, after the late-night host joked about Jeffrey Epstein.

In a Truth Social post at 12:49 a.m. ET, Trump posted, “Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air? Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it? Also, totally biased coverage. Get the bum off the air!!!”

On his show on Wednesday evening, Kimmel opened his monologue talking about the pending release of the Epstein files. Trump opposed the bill mandating the Justice Department release, but reversed himself when it became clear that it would pass. He signed the bill on Wednesday.

Kimmel said, “We are now one step closer to answering the question: What did the president know, and how old were these women when he knew it?”

Kimmel also riffed on Republican loyalty to Trump, quipping, “They don’t know what is in those files. They are taking his word for it. They are taking the word of someone who paid a porn star $130,000 and claims he didn’t do anything with her.”

Kimmel also joked about Trump’s dinner for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, calling it like “an alumni dinner for the legion of doom.” He noted that guests included Elon Musk and Stephen Miller.

“This group is so cartoonishly evil, we might actually need Austin Powers to defeat them.”

In September, ABC pulled Kimmel off the air, hours after Trump’s FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, warned stations over jokes the late-night host made about the MAGA response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. After a backlash, which saw cancellation of Disney+ accounts, ABC reinstated Kimmel.

Trump has lashed out at reporters who have been asking about Epstein. On Friday, after a Bloomberg reporter asked him why he doesn’t just order the release of the files, Trump told her, “Quiet, piggy.”

On Tuesday, during an Oval Office appearance with the Saudi crown prince, he berated ABC correspondent Mary Bruce, particularly after she asked about Epstein. “I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it’s so wrong, and we have a great commissioner, the chairman, who should look at that,” Trump said, referring to Carr. Trump claimed that the Epstein issue was a “Democrat hoax” to distract voters.