Like Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel opened his show on Thursday night by addressing the shooting of far-right influencer Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA who aimed to spread right-wing ideologies through school campuses. Kirk had built up a social media following in the tens of millions, and was a close ally of president Trump.
In the clip above the late night show host talks about the shooting before condemning the “extraordinarily vile responses” he’s seen “from both sides of the political spectrum,” highlighting Trump’s words about the “radical left”.
“You’d think with all these terrible things happening our president would at least make an attempt to bring us together, but he didn’t,” says Kimmel. “Instead he blamed Democrats for their rhetoric. The man who told a crowd of supporters that maybe the second amendment people should do something about Hilary Clinton, the man who said he wouldn’t mind if someone shot through the fake news media, the man who unleashed a mob on the Capitol and said Liz Cheney should face nine barrels shooting at her for supporting his opponent, blames the radical left for their rhetoric.”
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