Lemon Drop | Censorship Is a Choice: What We Can Learn From Jimmy Kimmel's Return

The Don Lemon Show

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News, Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air with record-breaking ratings, and his return says a lot about power, fear, and the price of silence. When Disney yanked him after Trump’s FCC chair attacked, it wasn’t regulation that silenced him, it was corporate cowardice. But this time, the public pushed back with boycotts, outrage, and a reminder that free speech isn’t for sale. Don breaks down what Kimmel’s return teaches us about censorship as a choice, the failure of corporate media, and why courage, not appeasement, is what really sells. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:46.0	Jimmy Kimmel is back on the air with the biggest ratings of his career.
0:49.5	Disney, now licking its wounds.
0:51.8	And Trump, for once, he's the one looking small right now.
0:59.7	Walking out to a thunderous standing ovation,
1:02.8	overnight Jimmy Kimmel,
1:04.4	returning to late-night TV
1:06.0	after a week off the air.
1:08.4	Thank you.
1:09.0	Thank you, it.
1:11.0	Anyway, as I was saying before I was interrupting.
1:16.0	But it did not have to go this way at all.
1:19.5	When Disney pulled Kimmel after Trump's FCC chair attacked him, it wasn't strength.
1:24.3	It wasn't strategy.
1:25.9	I mean, let's be honest.
1:26.8	It was fear.
1:28.4	The most powerful entertainment company in the world folded in 24 hours. No hearings, no fight.
1:35.5	One podcast ran from a politician and they hand it over the microphone like it belonged to him.
1:41.6	Because censorship is always a choice. And what appears to be an action,
1:47.3	appears to be an action by Jimmy Kimmel to play into that narrative that this was somehow a
1:56.2	Maga or Republican motivated person. If that's what happened here with his conduct, that is,
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