Jimmy Kimmel Inks ABC Contract Extension After Trump-FCC Culture War

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2. BREAKING: THE JOKE'S ON TRUMP! Jimmy Kimmel signs new ABC deal in defiant slap back.

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In a humiliating twist for Donald Trump — who seems to spend more time rage-watching late-night TV than governing — Jimmy Kimmel just secured a fresh one-year extension with ABC. That’s right: while Trump publicly demands his firing like a wannabe media dictator, Kimmel is locking in paychecks through May 2027.

According to Bloomberg, Kimmel told his staff the good news on Monday, just months after ABC briefly suspended Jimmy Kimmel Live! under pressure from the MAGA outrage machine. The supposed offense? Kimmel dared to tell the truth about the extremist roots of the young man who assassinated GOP activist Charlie Kirk — a narrative the Trump universe has been desperately trying to bury.

Enter Trump’s FCC chair Brendan Carr, who went full authoritarian cosplay on MAGA maniac Benny Johnson’s podcast, threatening “remedies” against ABC and darkly musing about government punishment for a comedian telling jokes they don’t like. Because nothing says “small-government conservative” like using federal power to silence late-night monologues.

But the tantrums didn’t work. Kimmel is still standing — and still roasting.

“Every five weeks, President Trump flips out and wants me fired,” Kimmel quipped recently, thanking Trump for watching the show live, “instead of on YouTube.” Then he twisted the knife: “It’s viewers like you who keep us on the air.”

And how did Trump handle the news at the Kennedy Center last week? By rambling about how he’s a better awards host than Kimmel — because apparently nothing soothes the presidential ego like imagining himself as a B-list master of ceremonies.

Trump fumed. Kimmel won. Free speech survived another day.