In late 2015, Donald Trump appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! for the first time.

He'd just been announced as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination and sat comfortably on an armchair opposite Kimmel, while the pair gabbed like old friends.

Ten years, one more Kimmel appearance and two Trump administrations later, the US president is seemingly hell-bent on getting the long-running late-night show cancelled for good .

Trump celebrated Kimmel being pulled off air over a controversial comment about Charlie Kirk's assassination in a scathing post on Truth Social, describing his former talkshow chum as having "zero talent" with "worse ratings" than Stephen Colbert, whose own show was recently cancelled.

They were once friends – or at least amicable entertainment indust

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