Jimmy Kimmel claps again at Trumps cancellation declare with Epstein dig

Jimmy Kimmel has fired again at U.S. President Donald Trump after the latter predicted Kimmel could be the following late-night host to face cancellation, following the introduced finish of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS just lately confirmed that Colbert’s present would wrap after the 2025–26 season, citing funds constraints amid a shrinking late-night financial system. Trump, nonetheless, celebrated the event as a private victory and used it as a chance to focus on his typical media critics.

Taking to Truth Social, Trump posted, “The phrase is, and it’s a robust phrase at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go within the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will likely be gone.” He additionally known as the late-night trio — Kimmel, Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon — “no-talent” hosts who had “ruined what was nice tv.”

Trump praised Fox News character Greg Gutfeld as superior to all of them and took a direct swipe at Fallon, calling him “the moron on NBC.”

Kimmel responded on Instagram simply hours later. “I’m listening to you’re subsequent. Or perhaps it’s simply one other great secret,” he wrote, referencing a latest Wall Street Journal exposé a few 2003 birthday letter Trump wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. That letter, described intimately by the WSJ, was reportedly typed inside the define of a unadorned lady and signed “Donald” beneath the waist. It ended with the phrase, “Happy Birthday — and will on daily basis be one other great secret.”

Kimmel’s comeback ties Trump’s late-night feud to the broader controversy surrounding his previous relationship with Epstein. It comes amid rising scrutiny after WSJ additionally reported that former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi informed Trump his identify was referenced within the Epstein recordsdata — data the Justice Department just lately declined to launch.

While CBS has denied any political motive in ending Colbert’s present, the announcement got here shortly after Colbert criticised Paramount for settling a lawsuit with Trump over a 60 Minutes section, calling the $16 million payout a “fats bribe.”