ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel reacted to parts of President Trump’s Super Bowl interview with NBC’s Tom Llamas on his Thursday show with all of the subtlety one can expect from him, which is to say none at all. According to Kimmel, Trump’s declaration that nobody feels worse about the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is akin to saying nobody felt worse for serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s victims than Gacy himself. In one clip, Llamas mentioned Trump's comments that ICE had made mistakes in Minneapolis and asked him to elaborate. Trump responded by declaring, “Well, look, I'm not happy with the two incidents. It's not, you know, both of them. It's not one or the other. He was not an angel, and she was not an angel.” Kimmel retorted, “And now they literally are angels, thanks. What is—he wasn't, she wasn't—first of all, you don't know anything about those people. How dare you weigh in on what they were and weren't. Keep your stupid thoughts in your diaper where they belong on this subject. A second thing, while we're identifying angels? Jeffrey Epstein was your best friend, so maybe leave angels out of the conversation. And then because that wasn't already disgusting enough, he made it worse.”   Reacting to Trump's interview with Tom Llamas, Jimmy Kimmel compares ICE to serial killer John Wayne Gacy, "A lot of people would think it would be the parents" that feel the worst about Renee Good and Alex Pretty "or the spouses or the children of the victims. But then, you… pic.twitter.com/QGxfxbNNWp — Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) February 6, 2026   While Kimmel may not want to think about Good not getting out of the car when asked or her wife urging her to “drive, baby, drive,” that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Similarly, there is footage of Pretti engaging in destructive behavior, which could be relevant if agents recognized him 11 days later. Instead, Kimmel played another clip. This time Llamas asked, “You mentioned Renee Good and Alex Pretti not being angels. Do you think any of that justified what happened to them, though?” Trump replied, “No, I don't. It should have not happened. It was a very sad—to me, it was a very sad incident, two incidents and, you know, they mentioned the one now, they don't mention the other. Well, I think they were both sad. You know who feels worse about it than anybody? The people of ICE.” That really set Kimmel off, “Right, right. A lot of people would think it would be the parents or the spouses or the children of the victims. But then, you know, there are a lot of people who don't have a brain that's shrunken down smaller than one of an Oompa-Loompa’s balls, so—it’s like when John Wayne Gacy told the cops when they found all the bodies in his basement, ‘Nobody's more tore up about this than me.’” Moving right along, Kimmel introduced another clip, “But at the end of the day, Trump believes that ultimately what we have here is a simple failure to communicate.” In this video, Trump declared, “Two people, it's bad, I hate it. I hate even talking about it. Two people out of tens of thousands. Okay? And you get bad publicity.” Kimmel snarked, “That's the real tragedy. The impact on the publicity. You know, nobody ever talks about the tens of thousands of innocent people we don't murder at these protests. Trump said so many dumb and embarrassing things during the interview, he may have to sue himself for another $10 billion.” Trump’s point is not outrageous. In Iran, regime forces there have killed thousands of people. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, a woman was shot in a split-second, vehicle-related incident involving an agent who had previously been badly wounded by a weaponized car. The second shooting involved a man with a gun. If ICE really was like Gacy, Minnesota would look more like Iran, but it doesn’t, and suggesting it is like Gacy, is an outrageous lie. Here is transcript for the February 5 show: ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live! 2/5/2026 11:38 PM ET TOM LLAMAS: After the shooting of Renee Good, you said ICE made some mistakes. What were the mistakes? DONALD TRUMP: Well, look, I'm not happy with the two incidents. It's not, you know, both of them. It's not one or the other. He was not an angel, and she was not an angel. JIMMY KIMMEL: And now they literally are angels, thanks. What is—he wasn't, she wasn't—first of all, you don't know anything about those people. How dare you weigh in on what they were and weren't. Keep your stupid thoughts in your diaper where they belong on this subject. A second thing, while we're identifying angels? Jeffrey Epstein was your best friend, so maybe leave angels out of the conversation. And then because that wasn't already disgusting enough, he made it worse. LLAMAS: You mentioned Renee Good and Alex Pretti not being angels. Do you think any of that justified what happened to them, though? TRUMP: No, I don't. It should have not happened. It was a very sad—to me, it was a very sad incident, two incidents and, you know, they mentioned the one now, they don't mention the other. Well, I think they were both sad. You know who feels worse about it than anybody? The people of ICE. KIMMEL: Right, right. A lot of people would think it would be the parents or the spouses or the children of the victims. But then, you know, there are a lot of people who don't have a brain that's shrunken down smaller than one of an Oompa-Loompa’s balls, so—it’s like when John Wayne Gacy told the cops when they found all the bodies in his basement, “Nobody's more tore up about this than me.” But at the end of the day, Trump believes that ultimately what we have here is a simple failure to communicate. TRUMP: Two people, it's bad, I hate it. I hate even talking about it. Two people out of tens of thousands. Okay? And you get bad publicity. KIMMEL: That's the real tragedy. The impact on the publicity. You know, nobody ever talks about the tens of thousands of innocent people we don't murder at these protests. Trump said so many dumb and embarrassing things during the interview, he may have to sue himself for another $10 billion, but the good news is, we only have three more years of this left.

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The Washington Post laid off 300 employees this week, transforming billionaire owner Jeff Bezos into a James Bond villain. Chuck Todd tweeted he was “leaning into the evil rich guy stereotype.” Owners must lose hundreds of millions of dollars for that “vital pillar of democracy” -- leftist media bias. The most annoying media reaction was that this was a dreadful surrender to Trump. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof (last seen running for office as a Democrat in his native Oregon), tweeted "Jeff Bezos, who could keep the Wash Post a pillar of American democracy with the change dug out from his limousine seats, sets an example of surrender to authoritarianism for every other business person and institution in America."  MRC Senior Research Analyst Bill D'Agostino (don't pronounce it "Dag-stinio") and MRC Free Speech America Director Michael Morris join the show to discuss the plight of the American newspaper and the new way many young Americans are getting their news -- on their cell phones.  Young people today don't have any connection to reading a newspaper. Looking like a teenaged weirdo would be as easy as carrying a newspaper. Anyone carrying an Apple iPhone is going to find only one side of the news. Our Free Speech America team found that Apple News stubbornly refrained from using any right-leaning outlets in the top 20 articles of its morning editions in January. Of the 620 top stories featured by the news app in the first month of the year, not a single one was from a right-leaning media outlet. Instead, they pushed liberal media like The Washington Post, AP, NPR, The New York Times, and the socialist British newspaper The Guardian. That pattern is repeated in other major news apps. From January 1–31, Google News pushed 349 stories from left‑leaning outlets, which accounted for nearly 67 percent (66.7%) of its top 20 morning editions. The tech giant promoted only 14 right-leaning sources, accounting for just under 3 percent (2.6%). Digging in our archives, Bill unearthed a 2003 MSNBC segment from the old primetime show Scarborough Country, when Joe played a conservative on TV. In response to California's intention to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Scarborough labeled them 'criminals' and warned the licenses would legitimize illegal immigration by providing the most accepted ID in America.  When a grand jury on January 29 indicted former CNN host Don Lemon for allegedly participating in the disruption of a Minneapolis-area church service, the corporate media responded with unanimous outrage. But for all of their hand wringing, not a single journalist has acknowledged even once on any of the big three broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) that Lemon’s arrest was, in fact, the result of a grand jury indictment. Enjoy the podcast on these findings below, or the audio is found here.     

The unrest in Minneapolis has died down, and the Trump administration is pulling 700 immigration-enforcement offers out of the area. But all of the national media scrutiny has obsessed over Team Trump. They have rarely acted to “hold government accountable” when the governing comes from Democrats, Gov. Tim Walz or Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey. NPR was eagerly touting their new NPR/PBS Marist Poll to underline the effectiveness of their advocacy: 65 percent of Americans, up from 54 percent in June of 2025, think the actions of ICE have “gone too far” in enforcing immigration laws, and 62 percent of say the actions of ICE are making Americans “somewhat less safe, or much less safe.” The New Republic underlined what NPR and PBS were cooking: “Brutal New Poll Wrecks Trump’s Main Claim on ICE.” Now ask yourself this question. Did PBS and NPR ever ask the public for their evaluation of ICE under Biden, when there was a mass importation of illegal aliens? Pollsters may have asked about their approval of Biden on the immigration issue. But this polling is specific and suggestive, intended to punish ICE deportation efforts. Pollsters don’t ask if the actions of ICE protesters have “gone too far.” The media have soft-pedaled violent extremists in the streets, who are painted as passionate heroes, just as Black Lives Matters were boosted for their “racial reckoning” in the George Floyd riots of 2020. James Freeman at The Wall Street Journal asked the rhetorical question: “Who Watches the ‘ICE Watchers’?” National media outlets have implied that these protesters – including Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were shot by federal agents as they interfered and threatened law-enforcement activities – were somehow not radical activists, when their tactics were clearly radical. Freeman drew attention to a Christina Buttons article for City Journal about how leftists were training in Minneapolis to wreck ICE activities and protect illegal aliens, who they describe as “vulnerable community members.” Buttons entered into the training programs of “Defend the 612” (the Minneapolis area code): “Our reporting reveals that members and related officials have encouraged protesters to impede law enforcement; pushed civilians toward legally and physically risky confrontations; and helped mobilize a counterprotest that turned violent.” Good’s death represented a beautiful recruiting opportunity: “The evening Good died, Defend the 612 held an ‘emergency vigil,’ during which flyers were distributed directing attendees to join the group. At Defend the 612’s training session the following day, [organizer Andrew] Fahlstrom reported about 1,000 new signups.” These leftists were very focused on getting the “mainstream” media to reinforce their interference with ICE: “Members characterized their media work as ‘propaganda’ and insisted on the need to ‘maintain control of your narratives.’ To that end, participants discussed the need to condition their speech to journalists on retaining editorial control over how stories are written.” Buttons noted that Fahlstrom’s “ICE Watch” activist orientation on January 8 featured Jill Garvey, founder of a radical-left group called “States at the Core,” which were active in resisting ICE in Chicago last year. Here’s where National “Public” Radio re-enters the picture to help the left “maintain control of their narratives.” Last November, so-called “domestic extremism correspondent” Odette Yousef gushed over Garvey and did a “ride along” with the domestic extremists engaged in ICE-busting activities in Chicago. In the elitist media’s groupthink, the left-wing extremists never go too far, no matter how violent or destructive their tactics. Their goal isn’t keeping the streets safe. Their goal is destroying Trump and the Republicans. Any extreme tactic that hurts those people in the polls serves an important "progressive" purpose.

The debate over immigration rages on in this country, with a disproportionate media focus on the enforcement side. But there continue to be horrific crimes committed by illegal aliens that garner no coverage from the network evening news. The horrific truck crash in Indiana that killed four Amish individuals was not reported across the evening news. Here’s how it was covered on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier: The network evening news ignored the illegal alien truck driver that killed four, despite routinely covering traffic mishaps. Something's (D)ifferent here... pic.twitter.com/M4M2n25NzZ — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) February 6, 2026 BRET BAIER: The Homeland sSecurity Department tells Fox News a semi truck driver arrested in Jay County, Indiana for causing a fatal head-on crash is a Kyrgyzstani national who entered the U.S. via the Biden-era CBP One cell phone app. He was released into the U.S. via parole. Police say the man failed to stop for a slow truck while driving on State Route 67- State Road 67 in Indiana. He allegedly swerved into oncoming traffic, and crashed into a van killing four people. The networks routinely report on lethal traffic accidents. In fact, all three today reported on the woman that plowed into a Los Angeles supermarket. Three people died as a result of that accident. But this one’s different. Or, perhaps- (D)ifferent. In any case, not a peep on the network nightly news. Then there is the horrific rape in Georgia of an 11-year-old, while her 10 year-old sister was forced to look at knifepoint. Per the Department of Homeland Security: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) lodged an arrest detainer on Kenneth Moreno Guzman, a criminal illegal alien from Mexico, who is charged with the rape of an 11-year-old girl while her 10-year-old sister was in the room and threatened with a knife in Georgia. According to the Bulloch County Sheriff's Office, Guzman forcibly broke into a back door of a family’s home on January 12, 2025, and proceeded to rape an 11-year-old girl and held her 10-year-old sister at knifepoint. … Guzman faces multiple charges including rape, statutory rape, aggravated child molestation, aggravated sodomy, cruelty towards children, home invasion, false imprisonment, burglary, aggravated assault with a knife. He was previously arrested by local law enforcement. On March 8, 2023, Moreno Guzman was arrested by the Statesboro Georgia Sheriff's Office for driving without a license and registration.  He illegally entered the U.S. in 2016 and was removed. He chose to commit a felony by illegally re-entering the United States at an unknown date and location. As is the case with the truck accident, there is zero coverage of these horrific crimes on ABC, CBS, NBC newscasts. If you’re feeling deja vu, it is because you remember that the networks had to be dragged nicking and screaming to cover such horrific crimes as the respective rapes and murders of Laken Riley, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Rachel Morin among others. Nearly two years later, nothing has changed.