Jimmy Kimmel and the ‘Left-Wing Culture of Hatred’
Unreal.
There, in the flesh, in the middle of a standard Washington event — the annual White House Correspondents Association Dinner (WHCA) — was what was intended to be a mass murder of U.S. government officials. The Washington Hilton ballroom held not only the president and vice president of the United States but dozens of Cabinet members and members of Congress, not to mention hundreds of journalists. (RELATED: Why Assassins Almost Always Go After Republicans)
It was by the grace of a higher power that the sole casualty was a mild chest wound to a Secret Service officer who was, thankfully, wearing a bulletproof vest. The immediate audience of Washington politicians and journalists, in chaos, jumped out of chairs, hid under tables, and then raced away.
This was the third attempt on the life of President Trump. First, of course, was the shooting at a rally in Butler, Penn. Next was a foiled attempt at the Trump golf course. Now comes this attack at the WHCA dinner, which, as noted, is a standard annual glitzy black tie of Washington power brokers in an event held annually in Washington.
The would-be murderer, captured unharmed, was revealed to be 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California. USA Today reported this of the shooter:
Allen listed his employment as a teacher in a $25 donation to Kamala Harris in 2024. He is registered to vote in California as “no party preference.”
His LinkedIn profile indicated he’s been a part-time teacher at C2 Education in Torrance, California. C2 is a national tutoring and college counseling provider.
Allen posted on LinkedIn he received his bachelor of science degree in mechanical engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2017 and his master’s degree in computer science from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2025. Kathy Svitil, a spokesperson for the California Institute of Technology, confirmed a record of an undergraduate student by the name of Cole Allen who graduated in 2017, but declined to release more information.
Question? How in the world does somebody get to the point that something like this happens in the first place?
And the answer, sad as it is, comes that there are too many people on the American left and inside the media and the Democrat Party (but I repeat myself) that have made hatred of President Trump their MO — method of operation. Cheered on by the reality that the media is awash in reports of Democrats — not all but many — verbally smearing the president of the United States with all kinds of disparaging and violence-inviting language.
Examples?
Fox News headlined this of ABC’s late-night host Jimmy Kimmel. “Kimmel calls Melania Trump an ‘expectant widow’ before White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting,” with the subtitle, “The segment aired shortly before a gunman opened fire at a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt noted this on Monday: “Those who constantly falsely label and slander the President as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points, are fueling this kind of violence.”
Bingo.
Just scanning the Internet and one finds people — Democrats! — smearing Trump as a “dictator” and, yes, Hitler and more. As noted here in The New York Post, following the Saturday attack, “How Democrats relentlessly ratcheted up violent rhetoric against Trump before assassination attempt — comparing him to Hitler.”
The Post story reports:
Democrats’ rhetoric stoking fear and hatred against former President Donald Trump — including repeated comparisons to Adolf Hitler — is coming into a harsh new light following the assassination attempt against him on Saturday.
Trump’s political opponents have long used incendiary language in response to his more controversial statements — commonly casting him as a cartoon villain hellbent on bringing about the end of democracy itself.
Their divisive statements frequently include tossing around words like “dictator” or making overt references to the Holocaust or Nazi Germany.
The story added: “Republicans now blame this very rhetoric for stoking the (Butler, PA) assassination attempt that got Trump shot and left a hero firefighter dead and two others critically wounded.”
For those who have been around the block a good long while, this kind of heated rhetoric leads almost inevitably to a “blame game” in the midst of a violent political event. This behavior is not new.
In the long ago, Republicans were blamed for the assassination of Democrat President John F. Kennedy in 1963. JFK had, against advice from some supporters, traveled to Dallas, Texas, back in the day, a hotbed of conservatism. As fate turned out, the president was assassinated that day in Dallas by a Communist-loving Lee Harvey Oswald.
Down the road, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, father of RFK Jr., met with assassination at the hands of a pro-Palestinian zealot, angry over RFK’s support for Israel. Years later, President Ronald Reagan was almost taken out by a nut trying to impress a Hollywood actress of the day.
And, famously, history records the assassination of then-President Abraham Lincoln by a supporter of the just defeated Confederacy, actor John Wilkes Booth.
The bottom line? Assassinations, alas, happen. And in the American system, it is the combined job of the U.S. Secret Service, the FBI, and the local police wherever the president is set to appear to protect the one person elected nationally to, as presidents are required to say in their inaugural swearing-in, “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
And yes, hateful language can play a role in these events.
Which leads to this close from First Lady Melania Trump in response to the decidedly unfunny ABC host Jimmy Kimmel. Said she:
Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy — his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.
People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.
Exactly. Hatred has consequences. None of them good. And Jimmy Kimmel, alas, and on repeated evidence, is a hater.
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