President Trump criticized Jimmy Kimmel and ABC after the late-night host’s show on Wednesday, where Kimmel suggested that the president was “bracing for Hurricane Epstein.”
“Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air?” Trump posted on Truth Social early Thursday morning.
“Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it? Also, totally biased coverage. Get the bum off the air!!!” Trump added.
During his monologue on Wednesday night, Kimmel hinted that Trump would play a significant role in the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted pedophile.
“We are carefully following the path of Hurricane Epstein right now. It is a category 5, it’s expected to make landfall sometime very soon,” Kimmel said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The show uploaded Kimmel’s monologue to YouTube in a video titled “Trump Braces for Hurricane Epstein, Spews Nonsense & Elon Joins for Dinner with Saudi Crown Prince.”
“We are one step closer to answering the question, what did the president know and how old were these women when he knew it,” Kimmel baselessly claimed to laughs from his audience.
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427-1, before the Senate unanimously consented to sending the bill to Trump’s desk.
“It was such a landslide, Trump might actually be able to rebury the Epstein files under it,” the 58-year-old comedian said.
Trump announced he signed the bill Wednesday night, hours before Kimmel’s show aired on the Disney-owned network.
Kimmel said there was only a “12 percent chance” Trump would sign the congressional legislation forcing the federal government to release documents related to Epstein.
The show, which usually tapes at 7:30 p.m. ET, aired at 11:35 p.m., after Trump signed the legislation.
ABC “indefinitely” suspended Kimmel’s show in September after his controversial comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang trying to characterize this kid who killed Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.
Suspected killer Tyler Robinson is charged with aggravated murder and related crimes in the fatal shooting of the Turing Point USA founder at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
Kimmel was off the air for a week before returning on Sept. 23, failing to outright apologize before taking repeated jabs at Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for his weeklong suspension.
