Has Trump cancelled Jimmy Kimmel over Charlie Kirk?
Americast
BBC
4.2 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has finished his state visit to the UK and it ended with a joint press conference with the British PM Keir Starmer. What did the two leaders say about Gaza and Ukraine, why was Epstein not really mentioned, and what does it tell us about the relationship between the two countries? Sarah - who was in the room with Trump and Starmer at Chequers - also reveals what Susie Wiles, the US president’s chief of staff, told her about Trump.
The other big topic discussed - and the story dominating US headlines - is the broadcaster ABC’s decision to take Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air after his comments on the killing of Charlie Kirk. Justin, Marianna and Sarah unpack what that means for late night talk shows and free speech in America.
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Marianna Spring, Social Media Investigations Senior Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.7 | Donald Trump has finished his second state visit to the UK, unprecedented second state visit. |
| 0:12.3 | And the big headline is, well, he behaved. They got on really well, it would seem. |
| 0:18.0 | We'll unpack what was and what wasn't said. |
| 0:20.5 | And we'll also talk about the row of a free speech in America after the death of Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:25.5 | That row, continuing Jimmy Kimmel, the talk show host being the latest victim of it, taken off the air. |
| 0:32.3 | Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 0:36.1 | AmeriCast from BBC News. |
| 0:39.1 | When Donald Trump calls, they say, yes, sir. |
| 0:41.5 | Right away, sir. |
| 0:42.6 | Happy to lick your boot, sir. |
| 0:44.4 | We are the sickest country in the world. |
| 0:46.9 | Oh, dear. |
| 0:47.6 | Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry? |
| 0:50.5 | Of course the president supports peaceful protest. |
| 0:52.5 | What a stupid question. |
| 0:53.5 | Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? |
| 1:02.7 | Hello, it's Sarah here, speaking to you from a radio car in the grounds of Chequers, the Prime Minister's country residence. |
| 1:09.4 | It is Mariana, aka misinformation, in what is just below the usual worldwide headquarters of AmeriCast at the BBC in London. Yeah, we've been kicked out of our studio. It's Justin alongside Marianna in our new studio, which looks just as good, I have to say. And I should say why we've been kicked out, because it's an odd time for us to be doing this. So it's half-pours six in the evening British time after the visit finished, the visit, the state visit, and after, of course, that news conference. And let's start there, Sarah, with your thoughts. First about, we'll talk a bit about the whole visit in a second, but you were there, weren't you? Tell us about it. Yes, I was. |
| 1:45.0 | I was lucky enough to get a seat on the American side of the aisle in the press conference, |
| 1:49.0 | in a very grand room in Chequers. |
| 1:52.0 | After all of the splendor at Windsor Castle yesterday, |
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