Steve Barger

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

@paytonsun Failure of Illinois politicians. All of them

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

This is good

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

Dear Mr. Josh D’Amaro,
CEO, The Walt Disney Company.

I am writing to you as a concerned American and longtime supporter of the Disney brand and former Disney employee to urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to immediately remove Jimmy Kimmel from ABC’s airwaves.

What began as partisan commentary has now crossed into something far darker: a pattern of reckless, dehumanizing rhetoric that disrespects human life and contributes to the toxic climate of hatred and violence threatening our nation.

Keeping Mr. Kimmel on your network is no longer merely a programming decision—it is a serious and dangerous mistake that reflects poorly on Disney’s values and leadership.

Consider the facts.

On September 15, 2025, following the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk—your company’s own employee used his national platform to declare:

“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.”

This was not neutral commentary. It was a deliberate attempt to smear millions of Trump supporters and shift blame away from the actual killer before the facts were known. ABC temporarily suspended the show amid justified outrage and FCC scrutiny. Yet Disney chose to reinstate him—an unfathomable decision that signaled tolerance for this kind of inflammatory rhetoric.

Just days ago, on April 23, 2026, Mr. Kimmel escalated further in a pre-taped sketch. Mocking the First Lady of the United States, he said:

“Of course, our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”

He later claimed this was merely “a light roast joke about their age difference.” Yet he never said that on air. The implication was unmistakable—and chilling: that Melania Trump appears radiant at the prospect of becoming a widow. In the days that followed, another armed gunman stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, marking the third assassination attempt on President Trump in recent years.

Mr. D’Amaro, this is not comedy. This is the kind of dehumanizing language that lowers the threshold for violence. When a major network platform repeatedly portrays the President, his family, and his supporters as legitimate targets for contempt, or worse, violence, it does not entertain; it incites.

Disney has long marketed itself as America’s family entertainment company—the proud steward of Walt Disney’s legacy of wholesome, non-partisan storytelling that brings people together. Yet by protecting and platforming an individual who has shown such blatant contempt for basic human decency, you are allowing that legacy to be stained.

If another act of political violence occurs—and the pattern of escalating rhetoric followed by real-world attempts on the President’s life suggests it very well could—the blood will not be only on the hands of the deranged perpetrator. It will also rest on those who continued to give a national megaphone to the hatred that helped create the climate for it.

The Walt Disney Company once stood for something higher than partisan score-settling. Your viewers—families across America—expect and deserve better. Removing Jimmy Kimmel is not censorship; it is moral leadership.

It is the bare minimum required to restore trust in your brand and to affirm that Disney will not profit from content that disrespects life and fans the flames of division and hatred in America.

I respectfully urge you to act decisively. The eyes of the nation—and history—are watching.

Sincerely,

Rob Schneider

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

Fire Kimmel. @ABCNetwork

[First Lady Melania Trump @FLOTUS]

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.

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

What is wrong with Kimmel? Fire him ⁦@ABCNetwork⁩ https://t.co/StgPBLhcmO

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

I hope they arrest the thugs who did this

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

This will never make the mainstream media and we all know why.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

WOW. Kirk Moore, the Principal of Pauls Valley High School in Oklahoma, was injured after he TACKLED a would-be school shooter.

Moore suffered a gunshot wound to the leg but was able to subdue the shooter and prevent further casualties.

This man is a HERO.

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

@nickshirleyy @GuntherEagleman I’m interested in rooting out waste and fraud and holding those accountable. For sure it’s going on in Illinois.

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

@angeldadjoe @GovPritzker Agreed. I am outraged (but unfortunately not surprised) by your lack of compassion for Illinois citizens.

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

@RedWavePress I love this. Go human!

[Chris Josephs @Chrisjjosephs]

This TMZ pivot might put them back on the map

‘If you see one of the 535 members of Congress on vacation during Easter Break’

“Take a picture and send it to us”

[Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune]

Letter to the Editor: The killing of Loyola University Chicago student Sheridan Gorman is a tragedy that should force a sober look at the policy choices made by our city and state. https://t.co/YKEf8UpMhN

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 BREAKING: A DEMOCRAT Chicago Alderman just eviscerated his own party and JB Pritzker after an illegal alien killed Sheridan Gorman

"To say it's DONALD TRUMP'S fault simply because we refuse to work with them to go after those high priority targets?!"

"There are 2,000 priority targets in the city of Chicago right now who we KNOW are dangerous, courtesy of the Biden-Harris administration that 'vetted' them, but we will not allow the Trump administration to remove them simply because we don't want to look as though we're capitulating to him!"

🫳🎤

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

Another POS who thinks it’s the right thing to do to abolish ICE when an innocent girl is killed by an illegal immigrant.

[Senator Tim Scott @SenatorTimScott]

A family is grieving the loss of their loved one at the hands of an illegal immigrant yet Chicago’s mayor is celebrating a snowplow named “Abolish ICE.”

Tone-deaf and deeply irresponsible. Americans deserve leaders who take the safety of our communities seriously.

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

Durbin is a POS. Good riddance to you. I hope the rest of you wake up to the violence that your policies have allowed.

[Ali Bradley @AliBradleyTV]

After Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called the killing of Loyola University student Sheridan Gorman “senseless violence,” her family releasing a statement, “We acknowledge Mayor Johnson’s statement five days after our daughter, Sheridan's murder and his condolences to our family, as well as his recognition of the work of the Chicago Police Department.

But what happened to Sheridan cannot be reduced to a “senseless tragedy,” nor can it be explained in general terms about public safety. Sheridan was our daughter. She was 18 years old. She was doing something entirely normal—walking near her campus with friends. She should be here.

This was not random. It was not inevitable. And it cannot be treated as though it were.
We appreciate the efforts of law enforcement in making an arrest. But safety is not defined by how quickly a case is solved after the fact. It is defined by whether a young woman like Sheridan is protected in the first place.

“Our daughter was not in the wrong place at the wrong time. The system failed her.”
“Calling this ‘senseless’ is not enough. There must be a clear and honest accounting of what went wrong.”
“We are not interested in rhetoric. We are asking for accountability.”

We will not allow Sheridan’s life to be reduced to a talking point or a generalization. We expect leadership that is willing to confront hard truths and ensure that what happened to her does not happen again.

We stand ready to engage with the Mayor and any public official willing to approach this with seriousness, transparency, and a commitment to real change.”

[The Real Mike Rowe @mikeroweworks]

If you’re tired of seeing my face in your newsfeed or on the TV, apologies in advance, because it’s about to get a lot worse. By the end of the year, you’re going to be absolutely sick of me, due to America’s ever widening skills gap, and our ongoing attempts to close it with a record number of work ethic scholarships from mikeroweWORKS, and therefor, a record number of invitations to apply.

The situation is serious. Skilled tradespeople are retiring much faster than they’re being replaced. For every 5 that leave the workforce, two come in. The math is not sustainable, and not a week goes by that I don’t hear from some industry leader wondering if I can help with their recruiting challenges. Every trade is in demand like never before. In fact, there’s been so much outreach from so many CEO’s and elected officials, that we’ve doubled the size of our scholarship fund, and extended the application period this year from six weeks to nine months.

Last year, we received 10X the number of applications we normally get, and this year, with the disruption of AI, I suspect the number will be even higher. These are AI-proof, six-figure jobs that don’t require college debt, but instead, training. Thus, I will be cluttering up the media landscape with an onslaught of invitations to apply for scholarships, (like the one attached,) and good-natured appeals to support our efforts with a modest (or immodest) donation.

Toward that end, I’m pleased to announce that the enrollment period is officially open. Funds are now available to help train the next generation of skilled workers. My goal this year is to award $10 million in scholarships, and you’re invited to apply today. Or, if the spirit moves you, to support our efforts with a donation of any size. The donate button is big and red and hard to miss at https://t.co/uolhGspFtN.

If nothing else, please share this, so others can be similarly annoyed with another unsolicited invitation to help us close America's skills gap.

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

@FlyTPA I support this!

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

@TammyDuckworth Wow. Super classy.

[Steve Barger @barger_steve]

@DanCrenshawTX 🤣