Trump admin must learn from 'cautionary' tale of one first-year disaster: conservative

Donald Trump and his administration must learn from the backlash they experienced after attempting to cancel Jimmy Kimmel last year, according to a conservative.

The president has been a frequent critic of the talk show host, firing out Truth Social posts against the 58-year-old comedian on the social media platform. But an attempt by the admin to pull Kimmel from the air and subsequently cancel his show was met with pushback from audiences and other talk show hosts.

Veteran broadcaster and political commentator Charlie Sykes believes the Trump admin will have to take stock of the public's reaction to their attempt at pulling Kimmel off the air.

Kimmel was off the air from September 17 through September 22 for comments made after the death of Charlie Kirk, but the talk show host was reinstated shortly after.

Sykes, speaking to Molly Jong-Fast and Fast Politics, said, "I did think that the attempt by the Trump administration to cancel Jimmy Kimmel was kind of an interesting, cautionary note from their point of view. What happened was, they kicked Jimmy Kimmel off the air, and what happened?

"The consumers of the product from Disney and of ABC revolted and forced them to bring him back. I think Kimmel is more potent than ever."

Sykes went on to suggest that those companies serving Trump and his admin are foolish to do so, given the frequent changes in the president's mood. He added, "Simply serving the whims of Donald Trump, first of all, it's a fool's errand because you're never going to be able to suck up sufficiently to Donald Trump.

"You're going to, eventually, have to report something that he does not like, some fact, some truth, some reality. And so all of those cave-ins, all of those surrenders, you know, what do they add up to?

"Because Trump's going to turn on you sooner or later, right? Unless you close down, shut down, and go out of business."