Danica Patrick did a victory lap after ABC pulled the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show off the air “indefinitely” due to the late-night host’s comments about the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
The former NASCAR driver, who has been outspoken in her support for President Trump, reposted a news headline about Kimmel and wrote, “Human decency is coming back. Thank God.”
Patrick also reposted a previous tweet from Kirk in 2017 that said, “Jimmy Kimmel isn’t funny.”
It came after she mourned Kirk in a post on Instagram, including photos of them together on his podcast.
Kimmel, 57, was taken off of the air at ABC following his comments on the Kirk shooting, which suggested that Tyler Robinson — the man who is charged with killing Kirk on Sept. 10 during a Utah Valley University event — could have been aligned with Trump’s “Make America Great Again” movement.
“The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said. “In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving.”
An ABC spokesperson said on Wednesday, “Jimmy Kimmel Live will be pre-empted indefinitely,”
Nexstar and Sinclair, which own ABC affiliate stations, confirmed the news.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said Thursday that Kimmel appeared to “mislead” the American public about facts regarding Kirk’s killing.
Trump ripped Kimmel afterwards and called on NBC News cancel its own late-night shows, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” and “Late Night with Seth Meyers.”
“Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk,” Trump said during a news conference with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
In July, CBS canceled “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” for what they said was “purely a financial decision.”
