After years of aggravating the right with its woke content and policies, Disney has now officially enraged the left.
The hashtag #BoycottDisney was trending Thursday in response to Disney-owned ABC’s decision to suspend “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
The show was suspended after the late-night host said the suspect in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk was tied to the Make America Great Again movement.
Damon Lindelof, writer and producer of the ABC series “Lost,” said Thursday on Instagram that he could not work for “the company” that pulled Mr. Kimmel, while a slew of left-tilting accounts on X posted screenshots of notices showing that they had canceled their Disney+ streaming accounts.
“Disgusting that the people with the most FU money are the quickest to capitulate, but we don’t have to,” Danny Zuker, executive producer of ABC’s “Modern Family,” wrote on X.
“Cancel Disney plus. Boycott ABC advertisers. Do it now! Show these cowardly companies that we are a much bigger threat to their bottom line than Epstein’s bff,” he said.
“Democracy-ish” podcast host Wajahat Ali called for a “collective boycott” of ABC and Disney, saying it would “really harm them and force them to do the right thing.”
“Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated,” said Mr. Ali on X. “Marvel movies need to [shut down]. Ditto the sitcoms.”
Needless to say, the specter of leftists boycotting one of the right’s least favorite companies drew hoots from conservatives.
“There is literally no better way to stick it to conservatives than to boycott Disney,” conservative pundit Jon Gabriel wrote on X with his tongue firmly in his cheek.
Commentator Vince Langman posted: “Yes, that will teach MAGA a lesson. Try and destroy the most WOKE, anti-MAGA corporation in America! We’ve completely broken the Democratic party.”
Others credited President Trump and Mr. Kirk for the crack-up on the left.
“The right have been saying #BoycottDisney ever since they started grooming our kids with LGBT propaganda,” said Ann Vandersteel, co-founder of American Made. “And the left are now shouting #BoycottDisney because they fired Jimmy Kimmel?”
She added: “Charlie Kirk’s one goal in life was to unite both sides. Mission accomplished, Charlie.”
Disney cancelled Jimmy Kimmel so now the left is calling to boycott Disney. Truly magical. pic.twitter.com/20GhO0784h
— 🇺🇸 🌵Pam Kirby 🌵 🇺🇸 (@PamKirby) September 18, 2025
Mr. Kimmel, who has hosted the show since 2003, was accused of blaming the Sept. 10 shooting on “the MAGA gang,” prompting ABC to suspend the late-night show amid pushback from local affiliates and the Federal Communications Commission.
“We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Mr. Kimmel said in his Monday monologue.
Mr. Kimmel appeared to be repeating the far-left fringe view that the suspect was a Trump supporter, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, but others have argued that the host didn’t actually say that.
The Kimmel camp told the Hollywood Reporter that the comment has been “grossly mischaracterized.” The host reportedly refused to apologize.
The Hollywood Reporter’s James Hibberd argued that Mr. Kimmel may have been the victim of his own “clunky wording” in a Thursday article headlined, “Jimmy Kimmel Did Not Say Exactly What You Think He Said.”
“Kimmel doesn’t actually say ‘this kid’ was ‘one of them.’ You could read it a different way: Robinson wasn’t MAGA, and therefore MAGA is out there trying to characterize him as something else,” said the article. “Or even: Who knows if Robinson was or wasn’t MAGA, either way MAGA is trying to score points based on his politics.”
Does it matter? Maybe not, said the article, if the result is that “a tidal wave of angry people assume Kimmel meant one thing and it causes a huge network headache.”
