Americans woke up on December 25 to find a Hollywood celebrity hopping on British television to lecture the world about the state of our republic, using Channel 4’s alternative Christmas message as his bully pulpit. Jimmy Kimmel’s overseas grandstanding — presented as a solemn warning to the British public — was little more than a left-wing sympathy tour dressed up as moral outrage.
Kimmel didn’t mince words, telling British viewers that “tyranny is booming” in the United States and painting our nation as a cautionary tale for the free world. That kind of hyperbolic, defeatist rhetoric from a man who makes his living on late-night stages should alarm anyone who believes in American exceptionalism.
It’s worth remembering how self-inflicted some of this theater was: Kimmel’s show was temporarily pulled by ABC after his inflammatory comments following the tragic killing of Charlie Kirk, a controversial episode that he now frames as proof of an administration trying to “shut him up.” Rather than humbling him, the suspension became a fundraising moment and a badge of victimhood — and, conveniently, he’s reportedly secured a contract extension through mid-2027.
On air, Kimmel mocked the president as “King Donny the Eighth” and accused the administration of literally tearing down democratic structures — a cartoonish caricature that plays well to the London salon circuit but falls flat with working Americans who know better. The arrogance of jetting abroad to denounce our country while refusing to accept that millions voted for a different vision for America is the very picture of coastal contempt.
Make no mistake: conservatives defend genuine free speech, including the right of a late-night comic to criticize the president. But there’s a glaring double standard when Kimmel gets a transatlantic platform to sermonize while his allies in corporate media and big tech protect him from consequences and amplify his victim narrative. That hypocrisy matters because it exposes the performative nature of elite outrage and the way it’s weaponized against everyday patriots.
Hardworking Americans shouldn’t be lectured by celebrities who live in gated bubbles and jet between islands of privilege. If Jimmy Kimmel wants to spar with the American people, he should do it here — on our terms, where voters live with the results of policy and rhetoric — not from a comfortable perch on British television pretending to speak for the planet. The rest of us will keep rebuilding our country, proud, unbowed, and ready to prove the naysayers wrong.
