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The usually outspoken hosts of ABC’s The View didn’t go near the Jimmy Kimmel-Charlie Kirk controversy with a 10-foot pole on Thursday’s show.
Instead, the hosts went after FBI Director Kash Patel’s congressional testimony, as well as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during their “Hot Topics” segment.
The hosts have raised the ire of the Trump administration over past critical comments and apparently sought to play it safe after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! over the host’s recent monologue about Kirk.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel began before likening President Donald Trump’s “mourning” of Kirk to the way “a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.”
In July, the Trump administration suggested that The View could be “the next to be pulled off air” following Stephen Colbert, who was canceled by CBS after mocking parent company Paramount for paying a “big fat bribe” to Trump in the form of a $16 million settlement. Trump had sued CBS, accusing them of editing a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris to make her look good before the 2024 election.
During the July 23 episode, co-host Joy Behar called Trump “so jealous” of former President Barack Obama, which led to White House spokesperson Taylor Rogers issuing a threatening statement about the show.
“Joy Behar is an irrelevant loser suffering from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome,” Rogers wrote in a statement to Entertainment Weekly.
Taylor continued that Behar “should self-reflect on her own jealousy of President Trump’s historic popularity before her show is the next to be pulled off air.”
Trump made a similar threat about Kimmel’s show months before the late-night host was actually suspended, writing on Truth Social, “I hear (ABC’s) Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert.”
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