America is waking up to the ugly reality that big-time Hollywood entertainers have stopped being funny and have become political vandals, and Jimmy Kimmel’s latest excess is proof. Dave Rubin and his guests unpacked a DM clip showing Kimmel delivering what many rightly call a tasteless joke about President Trump at the very moment the country was wrestling with the seismic news of Nicolás Maduro’s capture and, separately, the tragic ICE shooting in Minneapolis — a clip Rubin flagged as shocking to the audience.
What happened to Maduro is historical and high-stakes: U.S. forces undertook a dramatic operation that resulted in Maduro’s extraction and arrival in the United States, an event that has reshaped geopolitics and vindicated a long-standing demand for accountability from Venezuelan tyrants. For Americans who prioritize law and order and the safety of the hemisphere, this was a win for justice — not an occasion for late-night virtue-signaling or cheap political jabs.
The capture also produced the predictable tidal wave of social-media lies and manipulation, a reminder that in today’s information war even big news can be drowned in disinformation the instant it breaks. While the networks scramble for clicks and cultural clout, ordinary citizens are left sifting truth from manufactured outrage — and comedy hosts who pretend this is merely “satire” are helping break the social glue that holds us together.
Back home in Minneapolis, the public learned that Renee Nicole Good, an American woman, was shot and killed during an ICE operation — a grim event that has sparked righteous anger and anguished calls for answers. The raw facts of that morning and the conflicting accounts that followed demand a sober investigation and no reflexive politicization; families deserve dignity and officers deserve due process, but the truth cannot be sacrificed to narratives that score points for the news cycle.
Instead of calming and clarifying, too many in the media chose to inflame. Federal prosecutors have even resigned in protest over what they called a failure to pursue a robust civil rights inquiry, leaving Americans to wonder whether political considerations are trumping impartial justice. This is exactly why conservatives have warned against a politicized Department of Justice and why we must insist on transparent, consistent standards for investigations into use-of-force incidents.
Jimmy Kimmel’s onstage smirks and punchlines undercut the seriousness of both a major foreign-policy triumph and the domestic grief of a grieving family, and that is not merely tasteless — it’s corrosive. If entertainers believe they can weaponize grief for ratings while pretending to be arbiters of morality, the rest of us should push back: demand accountability from networks, insist on fair coverage, and refuse to normalize the dehumanization of those who disagree with the coastal elites.
Hardworking Americans are tired of elites who lecture patriotism from luxury balconies while cheering chaos on the streets and mocking those who call for law and order. We should honor the fallen, defend our law-enforcement professionals when warranted, and hold the media to the same standards of decency and responsibility we expect from our leaders. The country deserves better than late-night cynics turned political hitmen; it deserves truth, respect, and a media that reflects, rather than scorns, the American people.
