Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is urging ABC-TV affiliates not to carry “Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ when it returns to the airwaves Tuesday.
Andrew Kolvet, the organization’s spokesman and executive producer of Kirk’s popular podcast, slammed the network and parent company Disney on Monday for “caving” and allowing the embattled late-night host back.
Kimmel’s show got yanked a week ago over shocking on-air remarks he made about MAGA supporters and Kirk’s murder.
“Disney and ABC caving and allowing Kimmell back on the air is not surprising, but it’s their mistake to make,” Kolvet tweeted minutes after the network revealed Kimmel would be returning.
“Nextstar and Sinclair do not have to make the same choice,” he said of the conglomerates that own a host of ABC affiliates.
The involuntary hiatus for Kimmel came as FCC Chair Brendan Carr floated taking federal action against the network over his comments and after Nexstar and Sinclair vowed not to carry the program on their stations.
Neither Nexstar, Sinclair nor the FCC responded to Post requests for comment Monday.
Turning Point USA was co-founded by Kirk and his widow, Erika Kirk, is now the CEO of the organization.
Kimmel’s saga started last week when he claimed on air that the “MAGA gang” was trying to label Kirk’s assassin “as anything other than one of them” and accused President Trump’s backers of “doing everything they can to score political points from” the conservative icon’s violent death.
The alleged gunman, Tyler Robinson, 22, has been described as someone who shifted more to the left of the political spectrum in recent years leading up to the murder.
Disney said in a statement announcing Kimmel’s return to his late-night perch that the company temporarily suspended production of his show “to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country.”
Disney called some of Kimmel’s comments “ill-timed and thus insensitive.”
The Kimmel comeback comes as celebs, including his fellow late-night hosts, and lefty pols blasted ABC for benching the comedian.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom cheered the decision.
“Thank you to everyone but @BrendanCarrFFC,” he wrote on X. “This is a win for free speech everywhere.”
But a slew of conservative commentators slammed ABC’s call to welcome Kimmel back into the late-night fold.
“DISNEY LOATHES YOU,” tweeted editor-in-chief of The Federalist Mollie Hemingway.
Ann Coulter wrote, “ABC execs prove they are NOT cowards by caving in 10 seconds to left-wing pressure.”
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly mocked the brief suspension by tweeting, “Must be nice to be a leftist.
” ‘Cancellation’ lasts 5 nights and you’re right back under klieg lights,” she said on X. “On the right you’re underground.”
But OutKick founder and conservative commentator Clay Travis said on Fox News that he commended Disney for bringing back Kimmel, while stressing he hopes the host does more to unite the nation, including getting more Trump supporters as guests.
“I would say this is the right decision because I don’t like the idea of deciding based on one comment that we’re not going to have someone on the air anymore, whether they’re a Democrat, Republican or independent,” he said.
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