Jimmy Kimmels Kids Revealed What They Really Call Trump At Home

Stephen Colbert lost his entire late night show after years of mocking Donald Trump on national television.

Jimmy Kimmel survived that exact same fight and insists none of it truly fazes him anymore.

But what his own family has revealed about coping with that fight tells a very different story.

Kimmel And His Wife Told Their Kids Trump Is A Real Life Villain

Jimmy Kimmel sat down with Dax Shepard this week on Armchair Expert.

He delivered the performance he always delivers.

Calm. Confident. Unaffected.

"The older I get, the less affected I am by that," Kimmel said of Trump's repeated attempts to end his career.

His wife, Molly McNearney, the co-head writer of his own show, said the attacks get to her far more than they get to him.

Their 12-year-old daughter, Jane, asked her parents about the president when Kimmel's show was pulled off the air last September.

Their nine-year-old son, Billy, knows Trump is the reason his dad vanished from television for six days.

TMZ reported the kids eventually asked their parents point blank, "Is this Donald Trump's fault?"

Kimmel and McNearney told them yes.

In their house, Trump is now described as a real life villain, compared directly to Dr. Evil.

Unbothered.

That's the word Kimmel wants you to believe.

Meanwhile his own son hears his parents describe the leader of the free world as a cartoonish supervillain, because that was the easiest way to explain the SUVs and camera crews that showed up outside their house last fall.

A Network That Booked Kamala Harris And Almost Nobody Else Calls Itself The Victim

Kimmel's suspension traces back to comments accusing MAGA supporters of exploiting Charlie Kirk's assassination for political points.

Prosecutors later confirmed the shooter's radical left wing ties in an indictment, the very ties conservatives had pointed to from the start.

ABC pulled Kimmel off the air for six days.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned that broadcasters ignoring the backlash would face "additional work for the FCC ahead."

Disney suspended the show within a day of that warning.

Kimmel came back and used a 30 minute monologue to accuse the Trump administration of attacking free speech.

Here's the part that never makes the monologue.

The Media Research Center found that 92 percent of political jokes across late night television targeted conservatives last year.

A separate NewsBusters study counted 90 Democrat guests to a single Republican across those same shows.

Kamala Harris got a seat on Kimmel's couch to tell viewers America deserved better than Trump.

That is not comedy – that is a campaign ad running on a federally licensed broadcast frequency five nights a week.

Stephen Colbert ran the identical playbook at CBS and lost his show entirely, its cancellation announced two months before Kimmel's own suspension and its final episode airing this past May.

Disney decided Kimmel's ratings were worth defending.

CBS decided Colbert's weren't.

Kimmel is still on the air because an accounting decision protected him, not because either network was defending some free speech principle.

Kimmel wants credit for surviving a fight he calls unbearable, then in the same breath insists it barely registers, and he cannot have it both ways.

He compared this fight to being fired from radio jobs earlier in his career, saying those firings hurt worse because back then he could not cover a simple ATM withdrawal.

The president of the United States tried to end his career, his own kids now hear him described as a supervillain at their own dinner table, and his measuring stick for hardship is still whether he can make a debit card transaction.

His kids don't get that same insulation.

They just get the villain talk at home and the memory of SUVs trailing them through their own driveway.

Sources:

• Eboni Boykin-Patterson, "Jimmy Kimmel Explains How Trump Attacks Have 'Hardened' Him," The Daily Beast, August 24, 2026.
• "Jimmy Kimmel Says His Kids Know Trump Hates Him," TMZ, August 24, 2026.
• James Hibberd and Alex Weprin, "ABC Suspends Jimmy Kimmel Live Over Charlie Kirk Comments," The Hollywood Reporter, September 17, 2025.
• Brian Flood and Joseph Wulfsohn, "2025 Lookback: CBS Pulls Plug on Stephen Colbert's Liberal Late-Night Show," Fox News, December 23, 2025.
• Taylor Penley, "Late-Night Comedy Shows Booked 90 Liberal Guests to One Conservative in Late 2025," Fox News, December 23, 2025.