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Friday’s panel on The Right Squad called out late-night host Jimmy Kimmel after clips surfaced — according to Newsmax’s coverage — of him attacking President Donald Trump on British television, and the reaction was predictably fierce. The show’s hosts framed the segment as more proof that Hollywood’s late-night elites will travel any circuit to take a cheap shot at conservative leaders rather than offer honest commentary.
This isn’t a one-off for Kimmel; his show has become a reliable vehicle for left-wing talking points and personal attacks on conservative figures, which many view as cheap political theater rather than comedy. Critics on the right have long argued that Kimmel’s monologues cross from satire into outright activism, using platform power to shape narratives against opponents.
Watching a prominent American entertainer jet across the pond to needle a democratically elected president feels less like brave journalism and more like performative virtue-signaling designed to win applause at cocktail parties. The timing and tone of such stunts suggest an industry eager to posture, not to inform, and that posture is corrosive when it pretends to be moral outrage rather than partisan theater.
It’s also worth noting that Kimmel has not been immune to consequence when his commentary crossed lines that even some in Hollywood found risky; recent controversies over his on-air remarks have resulted in serious pushback and temporary network actions. Those episodes should remind viewers that late-night hosts are not above accountability when their rhetoric slips into reckless territory.
Mainstream outlets that cheerlead these appearances rarely ask the hard questions: why do entertainers think they’re qualified to lecture on governance, and why do powerful networks keep giving them a megaphone when they repeatedly weaponize it? News organizations that pretend to be neutral should stop normalizing one-sided grandstanding dressed up as comedy and start giving equal time to real analysis instead of late-night sermonizing.
Patriotism means defending free speech, but it also means defending fairness and refusing to accept a media culture that rewards performative outrage. The Right Squad did the country a service by calling out yet another celebrity stunt; people owe it to themselves to be skeptical when late-night hosts parachute into foreign studios to wage culture-war guerrilla theater.
