Jimmy Kimmel’s liberal bias laid bare as study reveals exact number of pro-Trump guests he hosted in the last four years
By Editor,Sophie Gable
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Disgraced late-night host Jimmy Kimmel has only hosted one conservative guest in the last four years, according to new research.
The study noted that the only prominent conservative on Jimmy Kimmel Live! in recent years was MyPillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell, according to research conducted by the conservative NewsBusters organization.
The research comes after Disney and ABC decided to indefinitely suspend the show after Kimmel’s monologue about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
NewsBusters is a project under the Media Research Center, which uses TV news archives and databases to collect data.
A separate study from the organization claimed that 92 percent of the jokes Kimmel made on his show since January 2023 were at the expense of conservatives, and 97 percent of his political guests were left-leaning.
NewsBusters also found that out of 7,797 political jokes that Kimmel made over 369 episodes, 7,189 were about right-leaning people or topics.
The study claimed that only 565 of his jokes targeted those on the left, which equates to about seven percent.
NewsBusters cited Kimmel’s top target as Donald Trump, with a whopping total of 3,584 jokes at the president’s expense.
His second most-joked-about political figure was former president Joe Biden, with about 386 jokes targeted at him.
Exiled former Representative George Santos ranked third, followed by Elon Musk, Mike Lindell, Melania Trump, Donald Trump Jr., MAGA/Trump supporters, Eric Trump, and then Republicans as a political party.
The study noted that Lindell has appeared on Kimmel twice in recent years, once in 2021 and again in 2023.
However, his appearance in 2023 was a comedic skit where he sat inside a claw machine as Kimmel trolled him, asking questions like: ‘Why do you think people don’t take you seriously?’
NewsBusters mentioned a recent interview Kimmel conducted with comedian Bill Burr, but noted that his politics aren’t consistently conservative or liberal.
Even though the study claimed Kimmel had only one conservative on his show in four years, former Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger appeared on the show in July when comedian Fortune Feimster guest-hosted.
Schwarzenegger has latterly abandoned his GOP roots and revealed he was voting for Democrat Kamala Harris in last year’s election.
George Conway, who was previously married to former Trump aide Kellyanne Conway, also appeared on the show last September.
Conway was a founding member of The Lincoln Project, a political action committee comprised of moderate and former Republicans heavily critical of Trump.
Kimmel has hosted several conservatives on his show throughout its entirety, including Trump, who came on the show in 2015.
Trump told Kimmel during his interview that he was willing to debate Bernie Sanders and defended the temporary ban on Muslims he had proposed at the time.
During his first presidential campaign, Trump also sat down for interviews with Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon.
Other conservatives to appear on Kimmel’s show include: Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney in 2016, Senator Ted Cruz in 2016, and Senator Bill Cassidy in 2017.
Kimmel’s show has become a flashpoint of partisanship following its abrupt suspension after Kirk slammed the ‘MAGA gang’ for using Kirk’s assassination ‘to score political points’ by mischaracterizing his alleged killer, Tyler Robinson.
He then cut to a video of Donald Trump talking to reporters during his monologue, where the president answered a question about how he was handling Kirk’s death.
When asked how he was holding up, Trump responded: ‘I think very good,’ before directing the reporter’s attention to construction on the White House ballroom.
‘He’s at the fourth stage of grief: construction,’ Kimmel joked.
The suspension has resulted in an outpouring of support from those who believe Kimmel’s free speech was infringed upon following pressure from the Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr.
However, those on the right have defended the federal government, claiming the move was due to Kimmel’s unpopularity.
Daily Mail has reached out to Kimmel’s representatives and Disney for comment on the recent study.