On the September 15, 2025 episode of ABC‘s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kimmel made the following quip: “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 doing everything they can to score political points from it.”
The “joke” was Kimmel’s observation of far-right Republicans scrambling to distance themselves from the ideologies of Kirk’s assassin. After initial (correct) assumptions that accused killer Tyler Robinson must have disagreed with his target’s conservative politics, (incorrect) reports circulating stating the shooter thought Kirk was not rightwing enough. It was a weird and confusing whirlwind of misinformation, or “fake news,” as the aforementioned “MAGA gang” would probably prefer. At the time of the monologue, both sides of the aisle were still pushing Robinson’s agenda away.
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