Like Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel opened his show on Thursday night by addressing the shooting of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA who aimed to spread right-wing ideologies through school campuses. Kirk had built up a social media following in the tens of millions, and was a close ally of president Trump.
In the clip above the late night show host talks about the shooting before condemning the "extraordinarily vile responses" he's seen "from both sides of the political spectrum," highlighting Trump's words about the "radical left".
"You'd think with all these terrible things happening our president would at least make an attempt to bring us together, but he didn't," says Kimmel. "Instead he blamed Democrats for their rhetoric. The man w