Then They Came For The Late Night Hosts And I Did Not Speak Out...
In the scheme of Trump’s ongoing war on America’s media, the pressure to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live” is not on the free press scale of ABC News’ and CBS News’ capitulations following his libel suits, but in a way, it’s a more serious threat, because now we can’t even laugh at ourselves for electing him president in the first place.
The irony is that it was a joke by a late night host that jump-started Trump’s presidency: Seth Meyers’ 2011 monologue at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Although an equally hilarious takedown by then president Barack Obama didn’t help.
You can watch both those roasts below, but if you ask me, it was Meyers’ joke (annotated above) that was the exact moment Trump sold his soul to the devil and, well, we all know what happened after that.
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