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Tim Miller: There's One Issue That Splits Trump’s Base

Bulwark Takes

The Bulwark

News, Society & Culture, Politics, News Commentary

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Tim Miller joins Nicolle Wallace to react to Jimmy Kimmel’s return and what it means for Trump’s attacks on free speech. Tim even admits to a rare moment of optimism as he explains why standing up to Trump’s bullying matters.

Watch Nicolle’s show on MSNBC: https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. It's Tim Moe from the Bork. I was on with my girl Nicole Wallace right as the news broke about Jimmy Kimmel being back on air this Tuesday evening, which is exciting news.

0:12.4

I was uncharacteristically optimistic. And Nicole was a rare change of role where Nicole had to offer a moment of cynicism or a moment of a counter

0:26.1

to my more bullish pitch about the way that we're seeing some signs that people are

0:34.3

rallying around the commitment to free speech in this country.

0:39.7

And I do think that people with some exceptions that are concerning that we need to keep

0:45.8

talking about will broadly be rallying against some of the worst of the free speech abuses

0:51.5

of this administration.

0:52.5

Let's put it that way.

0:54.4

So I offered that a little bit of optimism.

0:57.1

We talked about kind of a bunch of other stuff related to the Jimmy Kimmel news.

1:01.9

So if you want a little skipping your step with optimistic Tim, stick around.

1:06.2

Subscribe to the feed right here.

1:07.8

Next video probably will be a little darker.

1:09.8

But who knows?

1:10.4

We'll see how it goes.

1:11.6

Your first reaction.

1:14.3

Well, my action is good and finally, kind of, finally. We've seen this from a corporate leader

1:22.1

who has been targeted by this administration, who has done the thing that we've suggested on this

1:27.1

program a lot that John Oliver put so succinctly on his show, who has done the thing that we've suggested on this program a lot

1:27.7

that John Oliver put so succinctly on his show, which is administration, F.U. Make me.

1:33.6

And, like, that's been, that was the most frustrating thing about this thing from the start, right?

1:37.2

Was, you know, this is a threat to the First Amendment. This is Donald Trump, you know,

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