Don't always agree with him but his mickey taking of Trump is normally pretty funny. The orange one, of course, hates anyone who does so with a passion. Kimmel has been cancelled "indefinitely" by ABC but the reasons are far more nefarious than publicly given.

Upon the shooting of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel -like many-decried the act and sent "love" to his family but in a recent episode of his show stated that "the MAGA gang" were "desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points off Kirk's killing". The first part is demonstratively not true as we now know that the killer was in a relationship with a trans room-mate and was likely radicalized by a variety of factors including social media, Kirk's hate speech against trans people and his own father's pro MAGA stance. Certainly he was not part of the MAGA gang. The second part however rings very true.

MAGA spout all this stuff about them defending "free speech" but the reality is almost the complete opposite, with Trump wanting to control the media and actively trying to enable his political cronies to buy up key media outlets. This is not a million miles away from the playbook of authoritarian leaders like Putin or Xi Jinping and should alarm most Americans.

I'm not tech savvy enough to post the link but MSNBC's Hayes's "Chilling" take on Kimmel's cancellation and the actions of the FCC sum it up pretty well. Starmer and Charlie are surely presently engaging in a spot of real politik and playing to Trump's well documented ego in order to attract US investment but I would be surprised if neither cannot see him for what he is.