Jimmy Kimmel digs in, refuses to apologize for Charlie Kirk comments after ABC pulls his show indefinitely

Jimmy Kimmel dug in his heels Thursday after getting axed by Disney execs over his dead-wrong Charlie Kirk comments, as ABC insiders told The Post the witless opening monologue didn’t even register with anyone on the show as being deeply offensive. The $16-million-a-year late-night darling — who’s so far refused to apologize for the sick comments in order to get his show reinstated — emerged from his Los Angeles home in the afternoon, driving himself in his Audi S8 to an office complex in Century City, which houses various law offices. But even with the fate of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” hanging by a thread, a source close to the situation said Kimmel’s opening monologue on Monday night — during which he falsely claimed that a member of the “MAGA gang” was responsible for killing Kirk on Sept.10 — didn’t “ping on the radar” as being particularly offensive. “He’s said much worse,” the source said of Kimmel. Perhaps that’s because Kimmel, 57, has spent an absolutely inordinate amount of time slamming President Trump and his supporters. Over the last year, nearly every monologue has been devoted to a Trump-hating homily.

In the nine shows in the last two weeks, Trump positively dominated Kimmel’s monologues, each featuring over 10 minutes of wall-to-wall cracks at the president, including a particular fixation on the release of the Epstein files. Kimmel’s show was pulled from the air “indefinitely” Wednesday night after the host implied that Kirk’s accused killer, Tyler Robinson, was part of the MAGA movement and claimed that Trump supporters were lying when they blamed the left for political violence. “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. Robinson allegedly scribbled pro-trans and anti-fascis...