Jimmy Kimmel used Britain’s Channel 4 alternative Christmas message to attack President Trump, declaring that “from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year” and warning that “tyranny is booming” in the United States. The speech wasn’t a humble appeal or a thoughtful op-ed — it was a Hollywood celebrity lecturing foreign audiences about our country while millions of hardworking Americans celebrated the holidays.
Kimmel framed his rant as a defense of free speech after ABC briefly suspended his show, portraying himself as a victim of political intimidation rather than the provocateur he’s long been. That suspension, which followed controversial remarks he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, became fodder for his British monologue and a convenient way to cast corporate America as helpless before the president. Conservative Americans remember who cheered that suspension and who stood for common-sense decency, not celebrity virtue-signaling.
RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan joined America’s Newsroom to push back on Kimmel’s sermonizing, rightly calling out the late-night host’s sanctimony and the media’s habit of exporting its partisan grievances overseas. Conservatives don’t expect entertainers to stay silent, but we do expect some basic respect for American institutions and voters — not pompous lectures in foreign living rooms. The exchange on Fox underscored how out-of-touch elite opinion-makers can be when they mistake their echo chambers for the national conversation.
Let’s be honest: late-night TV has become a cesspool of political posturing masquerading as comedy, and Kimmel’s Christmas address was a headline-grabbing example. While real Americans worry about jobs, borders, and the safety of our communities, celebrities obsess over theatrical takes and moral preening. This isn’t about silencing critics; it’s about calling out hypocrisy when a man who cashes in on a global entertainment industry lectures patriots about democracy.
Disney and ABC’s handling of the controversy only revealed the cultural rot in corporate boardrooms that reward performative outrage while shielding their own. Reports noted that, despite the backlash, Disney reversed course and extended Kimmel’s contract — a predictable outcome when the media-industrial complex protects its own. American families deserve companies that respect diverse viewpoints and don’t bend to partisan pressure from the loudest cultural elites.
Patriotic Americans should be skeptical of those who profit from division and then pose as our moral guardians. Kimmel’s Christmas sermon was aimed at scoring cheap points with an audience overseas, not healing the real divisions at home, and conservatives are right to push back. When media figures equate political disagreement with tyranny, they cheapen the language of liberty and insult the sacrifices of those who actually defend it.
This is a moment for everyday citizens to ignore the celebrity moralizers and hold both entertainers and media corporations accountable for their partisan theatrics. Tune out the lectures from Hollywood; stand with the men and women rebuilding this country through hard work, faith, and service. America doesn’t need sanctimonious sermons from abroad — it needs unity, common sense, and leaders who respect the will of the American people.
