Per CNN’s Harry Enten: Viewership of Kimmel’s Tuesday come-back monologue has already broken records.
Already 7 million people have viewed it on YouTube. That’s by far the most watched Kimmel video on YouTube in the last 6 months.
Trump didn't break Kimmel; he energized him. Viewership of Kimmel's monologue has already broken records.
Already 7 million people have viewed it on YouTube. That's by far the most watched Kimmel video on YouTube in the last 6 months.
The median Kimmel video gets ~240k views. pic.twitter.com/1orIZ7uPGn
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) September 24, 2025
Here is the monologue with the updated count. The opening bit now has 13,012,545 views. The account itself has 21.2M subscribers.
Meanwhile, after the FCC and others were claiming the government had nothing to do with Kimmel’s suspension, Trump posted this, confirming that it was really about his being unable to tolerate any criticism or parody of him and that he had a part in it.
He also had not only predicted Kimmel’s suspension but threatened two other comedians with the same.
