Kimmel's out. So who'll be next?

In Trump’s censorship campaign against his critics, one wonders who his next target is.

- LORRAINE ALI

THE LATE-NIGHT shows of Jimmy Kimmel, left, and Stephen Colbert, which the Trump administration had targeted for the hosts' fiery commentaries, have been canceled by ABC and CBS, respectively.

Jimmy Kimmel’s show is gone. So is Stephen Colbert’s. And if President Trump has his way, Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon will be next.

In the MAGA establishment’s ongoing censorship campaign against Trump’s critics, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” became its latest victim when ABC announced Wednesday that it was pulling the show “indefinitely.” The network’s abrupt announcement followed an outcry from Trump’s supporters that the show's host a longtime critic of the president had inaccurately described the political motivations of Tyler Robinson, the suspect in last week's killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

The network's announcement came hours after Brendan Carr, the Trump nominated chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, called out Kimmel on a right wing podcast and suggested the FCC could take action against ABC because of comments made by the host. He said Kimmel's remarks were part of a "concerted effort to lie to the American people," and that the FCC was "going to have remedies that we can look at."

"Frankly, when you see stuff like this - I mean, we can do this the easy way or the hard way," he told the podcast's host, Benny Johnson. "These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead."

The alleged lies cited by Kimmel in his Monday night monologue? That MAGA was trying to paint Robinson as "anything other than one of them."