Jimmy Kimmel had planned to directly confront the MAGA backlash to his comments on Charlie Kirk and President Trump hours before his talk show was yanked off the air by ABC on Wednesday.

Kimmel had a pre-show meeting with Dana Walden, the co-chairman of ABC’s parent company, Disney Entertainment, to discuss what he was preparing to say about the controversial issue, a new report from the Wall Street Journal claims.

Kimmel had planned to claim his words were being “purposefully twisted by some members of the MAGA movement,” the Journal reported, according to a source close to the show.

The host joked about Trump’s reaction to conservative activist Kirk’s death during his late-night show on Monday night. Airing video of the president switching from the murder to his White House renovatio

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