By Mashable | Created at 2026-10-07 09:47:58 | Updated at 2026-10-07 12:23:06
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"I'm going to report him to the FCC."
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Sam Haysom is the General Assignment Editor, UK, for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.
on October 7, 2026
Trump recently made a comment about LA and San Francisco that sparked backlash followed by a swift defence from the White House and Fox News, all of which has Jimmy Kimmel questioning the network's reaction to what it classifies as a "joke".
"It's a small price to pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe," Trump said about the Iran conflict during a rally. "They can take out a city. Let them take out Los Angeles, let them take out San Diego."
The White House defended the statement, and Fox News called it a "joke" — but in the clip above, Jimmy Kimmel plays a montage of Fox attacking him for a joke he made earlier this year about the Melania, which Fox referred to as "dark" and "completely deranged".
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"So if that rhetoric was deranged and dangerous and violent and dark, surely you must be mortified by the president of the United States casually ruminating about the deaths of 13 million people?" Kimmel asks, before playing another Fox News montage ending with an anchor asking "Why can't the left take a joke?"
"That's right. You know what? I'm going to report him to the FCC," says Kimmel. "The hypocrisy is so glaring you can't even turn your head towards it."
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Sam Haysom is the General Assignment Editor, UK, for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.
