Former NASCAR and IndyCar racer Danica Patrick had a chilling four-word warning for Jimmy Kimmel after it was announced that the late-night host’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show was coming back to the airwaves.
“Clock is ticking again,” Patrick, who supports President Donald Trump, wrote on Instagram, per the Daily Mail.
Kimmel’s show was put in indefinite hiatus after the host made what many considered to be derogatorys comment about the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk.
It was announced this week that Kimmel’s show would return to the air, even though some stations around the country are still refusing to carry the program.
“Totally fine,” Patrick wrote of Kimmel’s return. “An employer has a choice to hire and fire and run a business.”
She wrote, “I don’t think he is as funny as he used to be, but that little problem will take care of itself in time. He will either start making real jokes and not stupid distasteful emotional jabs or he won’t.”
Patrick, who has appeared on the Kimmel show, continued, “When I raced I never talked about politics and religion. I understood the unspoken agreement to be PC.”
She wrote, “All that is ever at play, is money. And you better believe if it’s not flowing, something goes. Clock is ticking again.”
Kirk was killed during an outdoor rally in Utah on Sept. 10. Utah native Tyler Robinson has been charged in the murder.
Days after the assassination, Kimmel on his show said, ‘We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it.”
Patrick in 2013 became the first woman to win the pole position at the Daytona 500.