What did Jimmy Kimmel say? ABC stars controversial Charlie Kirk comment in full

Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night talk show was pulled from ABC “indefinitely” Wednesday after he made controversial comments about the assassination of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.The late-night comic, 57, came under fire after he claimed the “MAGA gang” was trying to score political points off Kirk’s public and savage 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 during his show’s Monday monologue.“In between the finger-pointing, the White House flew the flag at half-staff, which got some criticism, but on a human level, you can see how hard the president was taking this.”The show then cut to a clip of President Trump being questioned by a reporter outside the White House, where he was asked how he was holding up in the wake of Kirk’s assassination.The commander-in-chief said, “I think very good,” then changed the subject to renovations being done to the White House ballroom, before cutting back to Kimmel.“He’s at the fourth stage of grief: construction,” the late-night host quipped.“This is not how an adult grieves the murder of someone he called a friend.

This is how a four-year-old mourns a goldfish.Okay?” Kimmel then doubled down, sharing that it wasn’t the first time since Kirk’s murder that he redirected a question about the Turning Point USA founder back to the White House ballroom.The show then cut to a clip of Trump on “Fox & Friends” two days after Kirk’s death, explaining he was going over the renovations with the architects when he got the news, before cutting back to Kimmel.“And then we installed the most beautiful chandelier,” Kimmel said, mocking the president.Kimmel’s off-key, controversial comments led to significant backlash in the wake of Kirk’s murder after the conservative activist was...