President Donald Trump doesn’t think it’ll take much to fill the shoes of ousted ABC talk show host Jimmy Kimmel.
Talking to reporters aboard Air Force One on the flight back from his state visit to the U.K., the president said, “Anybody could replace him. He had no talent.”
The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show was put on indefinite hiatus after Kimmel made what some said were objectionable comments about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
“[Kimmel] had no talent. He’s a whack job, but he had no talent. And more importantly, he had no ratings,” Trump said, per the New York Post.
The Hill reported Trump as saying that TV networks and late-night shows shouldn’t be allowed to relentlessly criticize him.
“I read someplace that the networks were 97 percent against me. Again, 97 p