Dear Mr. Josh D’Amaro, CEO, The Walt Disney Company. I am writing to you as a concerned American and longtime supporter of the Disney brand and former Disney employee to urge you, in the strongest possible terms, to immediately remove Jimmy Kimmel from ABC’s airwaves. What began as partisan commentary has now crossed into something far darker: a pattern of reckless, dehumanizing rhetoric that disrespects human life and contributes to the toxic climate of hatred and violence threatening our nation. Keeping Mr. Kimmel on your network is no longer merely a programming decision—it is a serious and dangerous mistake that reflects poorly on Disney’s values and leadership. Consider the facts. On September 15, 2025, following the cold-blooded assassination of Charlie Kirk—your company’s own employee used his national platform to declare: “The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterise this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.” This was not neutral commentary. It was a deliberate attempt to smear millions of Trump supporters and shift blame away from the actual killer before the facts were known. ABC temporarily suspended the show amid justified outrage and FCC scrutiny. Yet Disney chose to reinstate him—an unfathomable decision that signaled tolerance for this kind of inflammatory rhetoric. Just days ago, on April 23, 2026, Mr. Kimmel escalated further in a pre-taped sketch. Mocking the First Lady of the United States, he said: “Of course, our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” He later claimed this was merely “a light roast joke about their age difference.” Yet he never said that on air. The implication was unmistakable—and chilling: that Melania Trump appears radiant at the prospect of becoming a widow. In the days that followed, another armed gunman stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, marking the third assassination attempt on President Trump in recent years. Mr. D’Amaro, this is not comedy. This is the kind of dehumanizing language that lowers the threshold for violence. When a major network platform repeatedly portrays the President, his family, and his supporters as legitimate targets for contempt, or worse, violence, it does not entertain; it incites. Disney has long marketed itself as America’s family entertainment company—the proud steward of Walt Disney’s legacy of wholesome, non-partisan storytelling that brings people together. Yet by protecting and platforming an individual who has shown such blatant contempt for basic human decency, you are allowing that legacy to be stained. If another act of political violence occurs—and the pattern of escalating rhetoric followed by real-world attempts on the President’s life suggests it very well could—the blood will not be only on the hands of the deranged perpetrator. It will also rest on those who continued to give a national megaphone to the hatred that helped create the climate for it. The Walt Disney Company once stood for something higher than partisan score-settling. Your viewers—families across America—expect and deserve better. Removing Jimmy Kimmel is not censorship; it is moral leadership. It is the bare minimum required to restore trust in your brand and to affirm that Disney will not profit from content that disrespects life and fans the flames of division and hatred in America. I respectfully urge you to act decisively. The eyes of the nation—and history—are watching. Sincerely, Rob Schneider