Trump was also putting the squeeze on affiliates, so you argument fails there as well.

My "arguement"? No, those are facts. He's a jerk and his ratings are terrible.

So. He gawn.

You can paint the situation as you wish, but you can’t falsify the chronology of how it went down.

Good thing no one tried. Kimmel was being paid $16M/year to suck.

You, ChatNPC and the other guy can try and claim some kind of right wing conspiracy but here are the actual facts:
foxnews.com - Abcs jimmy kimmel live hemorrhaged viewers over past decade lost among key demo

Kimmel's viewership:

2015: 2.4M
2016: 2.2M
2017: 2.2M
2018: 2.1M
2019: 1.9M
2020: 1.8M
2021: 1.5M

2023: 1.7M (variety.com - Stephen colbert jimmy kimmel fall late night talk show ratings)
2025 (so far): 1.6M

Some sources have him down to on 1.1M viewers in August: yahoo.com - Jimmy kimmel ratings were plummeting

While I'm toying with the 3 of you, let's apply some logic and ask a question:

For a guy who has lost 37.5% of his audience over the last 10 years, do you think that appealing to one on side of the political spectrum - and only a fraction of that side of the political spectrum - would somehow win that 37.5% of his audience back?

Yeah. No.