Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off air after criticizing MAGA over a killing, sparking Barack Obama’s rebuke of Trump-era media interference.

Jimmy Kimmel was abruptly pulled from the airwaves after criticizing the MAGA motion’s response to a high-profile killing, prompting Barack Obama to publicly denounce what he described as political interference in media by the Trump administration.

The late-night host’s present, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, was shelved indefinitely by Disney, in accordance with an ABC spokesperson, simply hours after Kimmel advised on-air that Tyler Robinson—the person accused of killing a person named Kirk—may need been a pro-Trump Republican. “Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be pre-empted indefinitely,” the spokesperson advised CNN.

The fallout from Kimmel’s monologue shortly escalated right into a broader political flashpoint when Obama took to social media Thursday to name out what he sees as a harmful development of presidency coercion focusing on journalists and entertainers.

“After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like,” Obama posted on X.

Roughly 15 hours had handed between Disney’s announcement and Obama’s response, which included a direct reference to a New York Times report about journalist Karen Attiah’s firing from The Washington Post. Attiah claimed she was dismissed over her on-line remarks following Kirk’s loss of life.

“This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent – and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it,” Obama added in a follow-up submit.

Kimmel, a longtime critic of Donald Trump, made the controversial remarks throughout his Monday night time monologue, accusing the MAGA motion of exploiting Kirk’s loss of life for political achieve. The id and motives of Robinson, the suspect within the killing, stay beneath investigation.

As of Friday (September 19), Disney has not supplied a timeline for when or if Jimmy Kimmel Live! will return to air.

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