The killer was a college-age white boy from Utah from a religious and self-proclaimed “gun toting” Republican family (which is weird btw, to declare your family as part of a political group). We don’t know if he’s a Trump supporter, but it’s very likely that he at least was at one point in his life. The scary part (for them) is that he represents growing disillusionment with MAGA among one of ther most important groups.

The dude is the exact demographic targeted not just by MAGA, but specifically Kirk’s organization. Kimmel’s comment was about MAGA’s immediate attempts to claim (without any evidence) that the killer was instead a transgender bogeyman, with many influencers even calling for civil war against the left.

But the important thing is that Kimmel got canceled because the Trump admin threatened to revoke the network’s broadcast licenses (without which, they can’t operate). The Kirk comment was obviously just a cover, because MAGA has been attacking left-leaning media, and the comment itself was not offensive to anyone. That’s government censorship, violating the constitution to attack his political opponents. They thought that people would be angry enough about the Kirk killing to let this slide, but even MAGA allies have pushed back against it.