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Apr 28, 2026

White House EXPLODES As Trump's FCC Attacks Disney In Jimmy Kimmel Meltdown

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt explodes over jokes as Trump sends his FCC lackey to put out sudden insane review of Disney's broadcast license over Jimmy Kimmel's comments after shooting. John Iadarola and Jackson White break it down on The Damage Report. Leave a comment with your thoughts below!
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Donald Trump is obviously trying to get everything he can out of the incident that happened at the Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. His second biggest priority perhaps is ballroom. Of course he wants ballroom, gotta have ballroom. But today at least, ballroom takes a back [00:00:17] seat to Jimmy Kimmel. Because, boy, does Donald Trump- hate Jimmy Kimmel. He hates Jimmy Kimmel more than he hates Stephen Colbert and SNL combined in one. There's just something about that guy he doesn't like. And so he's trying to get him fired. And now the government is [00:00:33] literally getting involved. So we'll talk about that. But first here is the president's mouthpiece, who is attempting to pretend that she was shocked and chagrined by what this jokester said on his show. As the first lady of the United States pointed out this morning, two days prior to the shooting, ABC's late night host Jimmy Kimmel disgustingly called first lady Melania Trump [00:00:53] an expectant widow. Who in their right minds says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband? This kind of rhetoric about the president, the first lady and his supporters is completely deranged and it's unbelievable that the American people [00:01:08] are consuming it night after night after night. Although as we'll get to with Donald Trump, he says they're not consuming it. So I really don't see what the problem is if nobody's watching it anyway. Now, she right there, look, I'm going too hard on her because she's obviously [00:01:24] very, very triggered by this joke. She just can't, I can't take it. It was a joke and I don't like it. Why is there jokes? Why is there comedy? Why is it allowed that a person would tell a joke that's not made for me? I want comedy for me. And not just her, a lot [00:01:42] of people on the right are very, very triggered. Now, if we just pause for a minute, let's let them get a blow dryer, dry off their pants because they peed themselves. Comedy is just such an assault on the senses and the sanity. She was also by the way lying though, because she said that he said she was an expectant widow. He did not say that. I'll say it, but he did [00:02:03] not say he said that she had the glow of an expectant widow. That's poetry, okay, as well as comedy. He also said that she would be delighted because her husband was murdered, which is not at all what he said. That's not, you're only saying that after what happened [00:02:21] in the shooting, but that's not how the timeline works. He's not saying that she's happy that he will be murdered. He's implying she will be happy if he dies under any circumstances, which is objectively the truth. Come on, Carolyn Leavitt. You won't be happier. You think Melania [00:02:39] won't be happier. You think the vast majority of America won't be happier when this guy finally passes. I'm not saying he should be shot. I don't like political violence. I'm one of the few people to me that still doesn't. But if it's like a McNugget or something, you're telling me that Melania's day isn't going to improve, come on. And even if you don't believe that, [00:02:55] even if you think that I'm being extreme or whatever, he's a comedian, okay? He gets to make jokes. And I know that you guys know that. Because you guys have been shrilly shrieking about that for years and years as every single right wing comedian puts out yet another special [00:03:12] called triggered on Netflix. Starts up yet another podcast about how you just can't joke about anything anymore. Evidently, I guess they were on to something because now the regime is coming for Jimmy Kimmel. And we're gonna talk more about right wingers sort of complaining about it. I wanna be clear, that's not where we're at on this story anymore. Now the FCC [00:03:31] is apparently going to be reviewing Disney's broadcast license in response. Disney, like all of Disney, the whole Disney. And the reason for that obviously is they want Disney to be like, oh God, now here we go again. Fine, we'll get rid of Jimmy Kimmel so that the fascists [00:03:51] in the White House don't- Either literally take away our broadcast license, it costs us billions of dollars a day. Or just create such a hassle that we need to deploy literally dozens, hundreds of lawyers. And this by the way, if you're actually concerned about free speech is a bigger assault on free speech than literally anything that happened in America during the four years [00:04:10] that Joe Biden was president. And we'll have more, but Jackson, what do you think? Why is the White House addressing Jimmy Kimmel at all in the first place? Because even if you take Jimmy Kimmel out of the equation, there's still like 80 % of the media makes fun of Donald [00:04:28] Trump. So, and then if you go outside of the media, you have hundreds of millions of people around the world who make fun of him. So I mean, why are you talking about this? I was just in Los Angeles, gas is like $7 a gallon. Back here in Missouri now, it's just about $4 a [00:04:44] gallon. Pretty much everywhere you go, you're dealing with that. We have an economy, a job market that's been at a standstill for quite some time now. We have this situation in Iran where there's really who knows when it's going to come to an end, nobody knows. There's all [00:05:00] this stuff going on and Caroline Leavitt's like, Jimmy Kimmel. And then Donald Trump wakes up at 4 a.m. and he's like, I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. It's just, what are we really talking about? What's worse, Jimmy Kimmel? or a guy who literally can press the [00:05:17] big red button. But this is just more the same old BS from Donald Trump, just consumed with what people are saying about him. Yeah, mean, not only has he actually killed lots and lots of people, not only has he made many actual widows. Okay, well, let's not talk about actions, [00:05:37] let's about speech. uh Have you seen the stuff that he said about people who've died recently, the statements that he puts out? So he can say that totally seriously. He's not a joke. He's not joking around. He's just saying absolutely appalling things about people who've literally just died. But Jimmy Kimmel should probably be fired. Yeah, he should be fired. Anyway, [00:05:53] by the way, we're just really fast. Jimmy Kimmel's ratings are actually up 20 % year over year in total viewers. So that's that's funny. By the way, I don't even watch Jimmy Kimmel. I don't generally watch those late night shows, but he has an audience. And you know why? Because he says some funny stuff. Here's another joke that he said at that event. He skewered [00:06:11] Stephen Miller saying, Stephen Miller is so racist, the reason he went bald is because his hair was black. He goes on to add, he's like if baby Hitler traveled in time to kill us, which is funny. I've never heard that reversed in that way. And I hope that it hurts Stephen Miller's feelings. But don't worry, Stephen, if there are any more jokes coming your way, [00:06:30] you can just hide behind your wife. Anyway, with that said, let's talk about some other stuff. Should Disney be fired for my joke right there? Don't forget, Noble Mobile saving you a ton of money. So a lot of people are signing up now and beginning to realize, what the [00:06:47] hell? Why am I paying so much of Verizon and AT &T? So your bill's only $50 a month, but it can actually be less because they give you money back if you don't use your data. So if you're paying more than $50, there's no reason to not switch. It's crazy not to switch because same phone, same number, same contacts, literally nothing changes. tyt.com slash switch, tyt.com [00:07:06] slash switch. All right, we'll be right back.

The Damage Report: April 28, 2026

Hosts: John Iadarola   Guests: Jackson White