From Carson to Clowns: How Trump Derangement Syndrome Destroyed Late Night

Jack Fowler: Jimmy Kimmel, who’s got a role in this kerfuffle—it’s not a kerfuffle. This is an assassination attempt egged on by morons. Your thoughts about Jimmy Kimmel?

Victor Davis Hanson: I mean, the worst part about it was not just what he said, that I think everybody remembers, that he set up a little skit and photoshopped himself at the dais of the White House Correspondents’ [Dinner], as if he was [President Donald] Trump or somebody.

And then they splice shots of people that he doesn’t like in the audience in unflattering ways. And you got the impression that they were actually there and listening to Jimmy Kimmel, which was kind of a dissimulation. ---More...

Hanson assesses Barack Obama’s response to the most recent assassination attempts, recounts attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in 2003, and condemns Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about Melania Trump while defending free-speech rights and consumer boycotts of Disney.