Kimmel frequently uses his monologue to criticize Trump, recently calling out the president’s reaction to Bad Bunny’s halftime show which Trump described as “absolutely terrible,” “disgusting,” and a bad example “for young children that are watching from throughout the U.S.A., and all over the World.”

In September of last year, late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel found himself thrust into the spotlight — one that reached far beyond his studio stage.

The official Democratic rebuttal to last night’s State Of The Union came from Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and mostly focused on affordability issues. Then, of course, there were the late night show rebuttals.

When Jimmy Kimmel used his late-night TV monologue to make light of Charlie Kirk’s death, he triggered a handful of complaints to the Federal Communications Commission. But when his show was pulled in September 2025,

Jimmy Kimmel calls out liberals for their sudden Bad Bunny fandom before and after Super Bowl halftime show, and lamented people taking sides on everything now.

Jimmy Kimmel’s remarks about the killing of Charlie Kirk and his subsequent suspension by ABC drew more than 1,600 complaints to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), with most critical of the late-night host’s brief time off the air and of FCC Chair Brendan Carr.

This is the big difference between Trump supporters and everybody on the other side,” Kimmel said. “The worse Trump is, the harder MAGA-land works to tickle his little pumpkinets.” And longtime Kimmel nemesis Sen.