It’s not just ABC and Jimmy Kimmel—everyone seems less intimidated by Trump in 2026

The president’s powers of intimidation seem to be weakening. ABC is the most recent company to ignore his demands.

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It looks as if Donald Trump will have to keep waiting for his least-favorite talk show host to hang up his jersey in the studio rafters.

The president emerged from the chaos of last week’s attempted shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner with two major demands—that his big, beautiful militarized ballroom resume construction and that ABC fire Jimmy Kimmel over a morbid joke. (Days before the WHCD, Kimmel had described Melania Trump as having “the glow........

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