REACTION: ABC Suspends Jimmy Kimmel "Indefinitely" Over Kirk Comments
The Warning with Steve Schmidt
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🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It is Thursday, September 18th, 2025. |
| 0:03.9 | This is the warning. |
| 0:06.4 | And it is another dark day for free speech in the United States as the Trump regime |
| 0:11.7 | continues its campaign to stifle it and crush it. |
| 0:16.7 | And of course, they are abetted by their greatest ally, greed. |
| 0:22.7 | And so it is that extremist media executives and greedy media executives have conspired together |
| 0:32.4 | to decide what it is and what it is not that you are allowed to laugh about. |
| 0:40.1 | And certainly, in this new America, one thing that we must not laugh at is Donald Trump. |
| 0:47.9 | We must not laugh at J.D. Vance or Christy Nome or Cash Patel. We must not laugh at Pam Bondi. We must not laugh at the excesses, |
| 1:01.3 | the abuse, the lies, the preposterous abuses being directed at us, the people by a government, supposedly of the people, by a government, supposedly, of the people, by the people, |
| 1:14.6 | for the people. No, you must be nice to Donald Trump. Now, there are many people who say |
| 1:24.2 | many things about Donald Trump. Over on Fox News, they will lie for Donald Trump. |
| 1:30.9 | They will debase. |
| 1:32.4 | They will degrade and they will say that the cornerstone of our society, |
| 1:37.9 | an election was one that in fact was lost. |
| 1:42.3 | Fox News poisons the minds of the American people. That's what they do. |
| 1:48.8 | Other people point out factually that what Fox is spewing is poison. They try to be the antidote to |
| 1:57.3 | it. They try to warn people about what's happening. I try to do that at the warning. |
| 2:03.6 | But the most potent weapon against the dictator, against the tirade, against the autocrat is laughter. |
| 2:10.6 | And man, oh man, is Jimmy Kimmel funny. He may be the funniest person in the country of 340 million of us. |
| 2:21.0 | And his target is Donald Trump. And that made Jimmy Kimmel a dangerous man who had to be taken out. |
| 2:30.6 | And so he was. Jimmy Kimmel was fired, taken off the air by cowards at ABC. |
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