We were not fans of Jimmy Kimmel’s riff on the shooting of Charlie Kirk and the implication that President Donald Trump cared more about the new ballroom at the White House than the death of a close ally.
The late-night host’s monologue on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was tasteless, unfair and, frankly, cruel, given that all the evidence points to Trump’s genuine affection for Kirk and his family; a family and broader community that, needless to say, is in deep pain at present. More significantly, any reasonable person well knows that it is utterly inconceivable Kimmel and his writers would have used such material if Kirk had been a figure beloved by progressives and there was a Democratic president in the White House dealing with his loss. There would have been hell to pay from the show’s viewer