Jimmy Kimmel said he would ‘love’ to host Trump on his show no interest in FCC chair Carr

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he would “love” to bring President Trump on his nearly axed ABC show despite frequent clashes with the prez online and the White House’s celebration of its suspension.

“I’d love to have Trump on the show, for sure,” Kimmel said during an interview at the Bloomberg Screentime media conference on Wednesday. “All right, I’ll ask him.”

The network mainstay “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was yanked off the air for almost a week in September after the 57-year-old host made flagrant comments insinuating that Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin was part of the MAGA movement.

Trump had reveled in its temporary cancellation and said he wished it were permanent.

“Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED,” Trump posted on Truth Social after learning of its suspension.

“Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy [Fallon] and Seth [Meyers], two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT.”

ABC brought the eponymous show back less than a week later.

Despite being a frequent target of Trump’s insults, Kimmel — who’s done his own fair share of mocking the commander in chief on his show — said he’d welcome a sitdown with the president.

Of all the different administrations Kimmel has covered on his show, he said that Trump is the most accessible to the public — which he described as a double-edged sword.

The funnyman had Trump as a guest on his show during his first presidential campaign.

“[Trump] is on TV all day, every day, so he gives us a lot to use, to deal with. That’s unusual, it’s not how it used to be,” he said Wednesday.

“You hear him, you see him, he’s just presented himself so frequently that it makes it more digestible and less digestible at the same time.”

Kimmel, however, deadpanned that he has no interest in bringing on Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr, who faced bipartisan backlash to comments he made regarding “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and the work of the commission.

“We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take action, frankly, on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead,” he said.

However, the White House and FCC have insisted that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” was sidelined over its poor ratings and denied accusations that they pressured ABC to pull it.

“Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings, more than anyone else, and he said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as Charlie Kirk,” Trump previously told reporters.

“Jimmy Kimmel is not a talented person. He had very bad ratings and they should have fired him a long time ago. You can call that free speech or not. He was fired for lack of talent.”

The president has threatened to sue ABC since Kimmel’s return.

“He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do,” Trump said on Truth Social.

Since his show was reinstated, Kimmel has frequently bashed Trump and Carr as he revels in his apparent victory. Still, he acknowledged that there was a blip where he was convinced the show was really over and thinks its survival set a new precedent.

“I hope that we drew a really bold, red line about what we as Americans will and will not accept,” he said on Bloomberg Screentime.