Trump Scolds U.N. & Kimmel Returns | 9.24.25

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Episode: Trump Scolds U.N. & Kimmel Returns | 9.24.25

Date: September 24, 2025
Hosts: John Bickley, Georgia Howe
Notable Guests: Cabot Phillips, Jim Jordan, Amanda Presta Giacomo

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Overview

This episode of Morning Wire delivers a comprehensive look at the latest headlines in politics and culture. The main focus areas are President Trump’s combative speech at the United Nations, revelations about Google and YouTube's censorship practices, and the controversy surrounding Jimmy Kimmel's return to late night TV following his suspension over comments made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Key Segments & Insights

1. Trump’s Scathing U.N. Speech

Segment Begins: [02:08]

• Recap of the Speech: President Trump addressed the United Nations, criticizing its actions as "incompetent, inefficient, and weak," and likened his address to a "Festivus" airing of grievances ([02:27], Cabot Phillips).
• Main Criticisms:
  • Accused the U.N. of "funding a war against themselves" and being "all talk, no action."
  • Called out countries buying oil from Russia "while fighting Russia" ([00:39], Trump quoted by John Bickley).
  • Warned western nations against open borders and mass migration, tying these issues to rising crime ([03:30], Trump).
  • Condemned the U.N.'s push for aggressive green energy policies, suggesting they merely "redistribute manufacturing" to countries like China with weaker regulations ([03:56], Trump).
• Palestinian Statehood: He voiced strong opposition to the U.N.’s support for Palestinian statehood, claiming it would reward terrorism, especially after the October 7th attacks ([04:53], Trump).
• Ukraine Stance Change: After a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump took an unexpectedly supportive stance, stating Ukraine could "retake the 20% of their land held by Russia" with EU and NATO support—marking a shift from previous calls for Ukraine to cede territory ([05:17], Cabot Phillips).
• Notable Quote:
  • “The only thing that solves war and wars is action.” — Donald Trump [03:17]
  • “The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities.” — Donald Trump [04:53]

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2. Google, YouTube, and Censorship

Segment Begins: [07:29]

• Google’s Admission: Google admitted to the House Judiciary Committee that they censored Americans on YouTube in response to Biden administration pressure and agreed to reinstate banned creators ([07:41], John Bickley with Jim Jordan).
• Quote:
  • “A win for the First Amendment, a win for free expression.” — Jim Jordan [01:06], [09:00]
• Committee Context: Jim Jordan discussed their three-year investigation into the "censorship industrial complex" and described the process by which the administration pressured platforms to deplatform conservative voices ([07:59], Jordan).
• Historical Note: Reference made to the Disinformation Governance Board and concerns over the role of government in moderating speech ([09:12], Jordan).
• Enforcement in Europe: Jordan flagged concerns that what is happening with American tech censorship could soon happen to Americans traveling abroad, referencing a recent comedian’s arrest in the UK over tweets posted in the U.S. ([10:52], Jordan).
• Next Steps: Ongoing investigation into demonetization on YouTube and ensuring that such censorship does not repeat under another administration ([10:52], Jordan).

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3. Jimmy Kimmel’s Return & Charlie Kirk’s Legacy

Segment Begins: [11:43]

• Kimmel’s Suspension: Jimmy Kimmel returned to air after being suspended for making misleading comments regarding the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
  • His monologue referenced political pressure and clarified that he had not intended to make light of Kirk’s death or blame a specific group ([12:13]–[13:17], Kimmel).
  • Quote:
    • “It was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man… If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd have felt the same way.” — Jimmy Kimmel [12:43]
• Ongoing Fallout: Despite the lifted suspension, dozens of ABC affiliates (notably Nexstar and Sinclair) refused to air his show, citing a need for "respectful, constructive dialogue" ([13:17], Amanda Presta Giacomo).
  • Some affiliates will not air the show until they are satisfied improvements have been made.
• Details of the Controversy: The suspension followed Kimmel’s false suggestion that Kirk was killed by a “MAGA gang,” despite official confirmation that the suspected assassin was a leftist with a personal grievance ([14:17], Presta Giacomo).
• Charlie Kirk’s Tour Resumes: Despite Kirk’s assassination, Turning Point announced their campus tour would continue in his memory, with his widow Erica Kirk stepping up as CEO ([14:26], Presta Giacomo).
  • The tour was renamed “The Turning Point Tour” and speakers include Michael Knowles, Megan Kelly, Glenn Beck, Alex Clark, Tucker Carlson, among others.
  • Emotional Tribute: At a University of Minnesota event, Knowles left an empty chair for Kirk and addressed the community’s grief and resolve ([15:20], Presta Giacomo).
    • Quote:
      • “The enemies of civilization… thought they could stop Charlie Kirk’s movement. In reality, they have not even stopped his lecture tour.” — Michael Knowles [15:44]

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Memorable Quotes

• Donald Trump on the UN:
  • “It’s embarrassing to them and it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it. I can tell you that.” [00:39]
• Jim Jordan on Censorship:
  • “It is never the good guys who are for censorship. It is always the bad guys.” [09:12]
• Jimmy Kimmel’s Acknowledgment:
  • “Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what was obviously a deeply disturbed individual.” [12:43]
  • “If the situation was reversed, there’s a good chance I’d have felt the same way.” [13:10]
• Michael Knowles on Kirk’s Assassination:
  • “I'm confident even fewer people will watch [Kimmel] this time.” [16:06]

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Trump's U.N. Speech Breakdown: [02:08]–[06:23]
• Google/YouTube Censorship & Jim Jordan Interview: [07:29]–[11:39]
• Jimmy Kimmel Return & Charlie Kirk Legacy: [11:43]–[16:31]

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Tone & Takeaways

The episode maintains a critical tone toward the establishment (UN, media, big tech). The hosts and their guests are direct, skeptical of institutional motives, and frame their coverage as corrective to mainstream narratives. The emotional highlight centers on the remembrance of Charlie Kirk and the continuing of his mission, contrasted by the controversy and fallout facing prominent media figures like Jimmy Kimmel.

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For listeners seeking concise coverage of major political and cultural events with a conservative perspective, this episode encapsulates the ongoing tensions between government, tech, and media—with emphasis on newly shifting positions, ongoing fights for free expression, and the enduring cultural divides.

Transcript

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[Cabot Phillips]

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[John Bickley]

President Trump scolds the U.N. accusing them of funding a war against themselves and commanding them to step it up.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

They're buying oil and gas from Russia while they're fighting Russia. It's embarrassing to them and it was very embarrassing to them when I found out about it. I can tell you that.

[John Bickley]

I'm Daily Wire Executive Editor John Bickley with Georgia Howe. It's Wednesday, September 24th. This is Morning Wire.

[Georgia Howe]

Google admits they caved to the Biden administration's demands to Censor Americans on YouTube again.

[Jim Jordan]

A win for the First Amendment, a win for free expression.

[John Bickley]

And Jimmy Kimmel returns after less than a week of suspension by Disney.

[Jimmy Kimmel]

I'm not sure who had a weirder 48 hours, me or the CEO of Tylenol.

[Georgia Howe]

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[John Bickley]

A scathing speech on Tuesday, President Trump slammed world leaders at the United nations, warning that their countries are going to hell.

[Georgia Howe]

Daily Wire Senior Editor Cabot Phillips is here with the highlights from the fiery address and the fallout. So Cabot, a pretty remarkable speech from the president yesterday. What did he say?

[Cabot Phillips]

Well, we said Monday that there could be fireworks and that turned out to be an understatement. It was sort of reminiscent of that classic Festivus episode of Seinfeld where each character got up and aired their grievances with all their friends at the table. That is essentially what Donald Trump did Tuesday during his hour long speech, just unloading on the UN Calling it incompetent inefficient and weak, and then warning that mass migration, climate alarmism and political correctness were, in his words, laying siege to the organization's founding principles have Alyssa, what.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

Is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN has such tremendous potential. For the most part, at least for now, all they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter and then never follow that letter up. It's empty words. And empty words don't solve war. The only thing that solves war and wars is action.

[Cabot Phillips]

President Trump devoted much of his speech to immigration, understandably so, warning Western allies that their insistence on allowing unfettered mass migration was destroying their countries from within.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

When your prisons are filled with so called asylum seekers who repay kindness, and that's what they did, they repaid kindness with crime. It's time to end the failed experiment of open borders.

[Cabot Phillips]

And as you might expect, the President also took aim at the UN's decades long push to embrace far left green energy initiatives, which he says have been ineffective and more importantly increased our reliance on China and other bad actors who don't care about the environment.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

The entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally, and it must be immediate. The primary effect of these brutal green energy policies has not been to help the environment, but to redistribute manufacturing and industrial activity from developed countries that follow the insane rules that are put down to polluting countries that break the rules.

[Georgia Howe]

Now, the President also addressed the renewed push for Palestinian statehood from certain corners. What did he say on that regard?

[Cabot Phillips]

Yeah, this topic got arguably more attention than any other yesterday and throughout the week for that matter, as influential member states have joined the call for Palestinian statehood. But President Trump remained adamant that such a move would only reward Hamas terrorism and also incentivize more October 7th style attacks in the future.

[Donald Trump (quoted)]

The rewards would be too great for Hamas terrorists for their atrocities. This would be a reward for these horrible atrocities, including October 7th, even while they refused to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire.

[Georgia Howe]

Now, the President also made some pretty remarkable statements regarding Ukraine, a pretty big turnaround from his previous stance. What did he say?

[Cabot Phillips]

So after his address, Trump sat for a separate private meeting with Vladimir Zelensky and like you said, emerged with a much more supportive stance on Ukraine than we've seen from him in the past. Remember, he initially vowed to end the war on day one of his administration, and then in recent months said that Ukraine would need to accept a deal that resulted in handing over territory to Putin. But on Tuesday he said the Ukrainians can actually retake the 20% of their land that's currently held by Russia. Writing on Truth Social, he said that after getting to know the situation and fully understand the war, quote, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form with time, patience and the financial support of Europe and in particular NATO. The original borders from where this war started is very much an option. So again, that's a huge concession from Trump here in support of Ukraine. Now, big picture, this could all just be a leverage play to try and put pressure on Putin and bring him back to the table. But regardless, this was music to the ears of NATO and many UN allies who were gathered there this week.

[Georgia Howe]

Well, that would be an unbelievable win if they could get it. Cabot, thanks for reporting.

[Cabot Phillips]

Absolutely.

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[Georgia Howe]

Google admitted Tuesday to caving to censorship pressure from the Biden administration and it's now committing to allowing all creators who they kicked off YouTube over so called political speech violations the chance to return.

[John Bickley]

The admission from Google came in a letter to the House Judiciary Committee and its chairman Jim Jordan. He joins us now. Congressman, thank you so much for coming on.

[Jim Jordan]

You bet. Good to be with you.

[John Bickley]

So Google sent this letter to the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and it includes some major admissions. First, how did this come about and what did the letter say?

[Jim Jordan]

This is, this is part of our three year investigation into what some have called the censorship industrial complex where you have the government pressuring big tech, big, big media to censor Americans typically was conservative Americans kick them off platforms demonetized. But you know, you name it and you know, of course, last August, a year ago, we had Mark Zuckerberg send the committee a letter and he said, yeah, Biden administration pressured us to censor. We did it, we're sorry and we're going to stop. And they, to their credit, they have and in essence, Google sent a similar type statement to the committee that was, that was released today. They, in fact were censuring, you know, Americans. They'd kick some people off the YouTube platform altogether. Your channel, you're gone. They've agreed to reinstate those individuals, which I think is good. They've said they will not use the fact checkers like other platforms have done, which was a big problem because fact checkers are typically really biased against conservative. So I thought it was, it was again, a win for the First Amendment, a win for free expression.

[John Bickley]

Now, as we've highlighted here with you on this show, this is really a part of a pattern from the Biden administration when it comes to pressuring platforms to censor Americans. What else have you uncovered?

[Jim Jordan]

Well, you know, never forget, the Biden administration established the Disinformation Governance Board. I mean, the most Orwellian sounding thing you could, you could think of as if a bunch of bureaucrats can tell you what you can, what you can say, what you can read, what you can tweet, what you can post. That was frightening stuff. And then a bunch of us spoke up about that, you guys, a bunch of folks. And I will never forget when we had RFK Jr. Testify in front of our committee last Congress, he said something that he said when he endorsed President Trump a year ago. He said, when you look at history, it is never the good guys who are for censorship. It is always the bad guys.

[John Bickley]

What about people who would try to connect this to what just happened with Jimmy Kimmel? And the FCC started weighing in about the public airwaves and how they're being used by abc. Do you feel like that's a hypocritical moment from the Trump administration?

[Jim Jordan]

No, I think I look at that as just a purely business decision. This is the old Michael Jordan line. Republicans buy sneakers too. I think at some point, ABC was starting to think like where is our audience? Or at least they should be thinking this. You got someone who's insulting potentially half the audience every single night. And you have people who own a number of your affiliates and Sinclair and the nextstar who are saying we just, this is not what our viewers want to see. ABC's announced they're going to, is going to go back on. I think that just, I think underscores that this wasn't driven by government. This was a decision they were making that they thought was, was in the best interest of their, their particular business.

[John Bickley]

Final question, what are the next steps in terms of holding Google and other big tech platforms accountable to make sure this kind of censorship doesn't happen under another administration?

[Jim Jordan]

Well, we're really focused on Europe now because we think it's just a matter of time where something that happened a few weeks back. If you remember, Ram Lenihan is comedian Iris Dinnerson who tweeted something while in the United States, flies to the uk. When he lands at Heathrow Airport, he's arrested. I think it's just a matter of time before that happens to an American. So we're particularly concerned about that. Relative to YouTube, there's still this issue, I think that we're trying to make sure we understand fully this how people are being demonetized. We're still trying to look at that a little bit as well. But the big news of course here is that people who were kicked off can go back on and we think that is a, that is a big win. And the fact that they admitted they're not going to use fact checkers like other platforms have done and that they admitted that what happened should not have happened.

[John Bickley]

Yeah. The admission is now fully on the record. Congressman, thank you so much for joining us.

[Jim Jordan]

You bet, you bet. Thanks guys.

[Georgia Howe]

Late night host Jimmy Kimmel is back on air but with limited viewership and Charlie Kirk's legacy continues.

[John Bickley]

Here to discuss is Daily Wire reporter Amanda Presta Giacomo. Hey Amanda. So we covered Kimmel's very short lived suspension last week. He returned to the air last night first. What did we hear from Kimmel?

[Amanda Presta Giacomo]

Well, Kimmel, who was suspended after misleading his audience about the assassination of Charlie Kirk, he took to the airwaves and he did what I suspect many people thought he would do. Here's what he said.

[Jimmy Kimmel]

The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who, who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he can't take A joke. We have to speak out against this.

[Jim Jordan]

Because he's not stopping.

[Jimmy Kimmel]

And it's not just comedy. He's gunning for our journalists.

[Amanda Presta Giacomo]

But Kimmel did address his comments about the Kirk assassination directly.

[Jimmy Kimmel]

I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human. And that is, you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. Nor was it my intention to blame any specific group for the actions of what it was, obviously a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point I was trying to make. But I understand that to some that felt either ill timed or unclear or maybe both. And for those who think I did point a finger, I get why you're upset. If the situation was reversed, there's a good chance I'd have felt the same way.

[Amanda Presta Giacomo]

Now, it's important to note, though, that while the suspension was lifted by Disney, Kimmel didn't have nearly the reach that he usually does. Dozens of ABC affiliates refused to air Jimmy Kimmel live on their stations. Nexstar, for example, they own 32 ABC affiliates and they stood by Disney's original reasons for suspending the host. And they maintained that position until, quote, all parties are committed to fostering an environment of respectful, constructive dialogue. And we also have Sinclair Broadcast Group. They operate 40 ABC affiliates. They still aren't airing Jimmy Kimmel live either. And the group said earlier this week that they're in discussions with ABC as they evaluate the show's potential return. And quick reminder here, Kimmel was suspended after he falsely suggested that Kirk was murdered by someone from the MAGA gang. And this was after officials made very clear that the suspected assassin was a leftist who thought Kirk's conservative views were, quote, hateful and that he was also in a relationship with a trans identifying male roommate.

[John Bickley]

Now let's actually turn our attention fully back back to Charlie Kirk. He had a planned campus tour and that's continuing on. Tell us about that.

[Amanda Presta Giacomo]

Kirk was shot and killed during the first stop of that American comeback tour on September 10th. But turning point made very clear that that tour will go on. Erica Kirk, Charlie's widow, who's now been named as Turning Point CEO. She vowed just days after her husband was murdered that his legacy will live on, that this tour will continue. And in fact, they're adding more tours in the coming years. The tour has been rebranded in Kirk's memory and it's now called this is the Turning Point Tour. Turning Point has already tapped a number of personalities and politicos on the Right. To fill these spots. And more names will be announced in the coming days. So far, speakers include the Daily Wires, Michael Knowles, Megan Kelly, Glenn Beck, Alex Clark, Tucker Carlson, and a number of others.

[John Bickley]

You mentioned Michael Knowles. He was actually slated to appear with Kirk at the University of Minnesota this past Monday. That event did take place. What sort of response did we see there?

[Amanda Presta Giacomo]

Well, the event drew a massive crowd and there were actually chants of Kirk's name and it was very emotional at times. This was originally scheduled as a discussion between Knowles and Kirk, but it largely turned into a discussion about Kirk and his mission. Knowles, you know, got a little choked up when he presented an empty open seat next to him on stage for Kirk. Knowles also gave some really powerful comments about the assassination.

[Jim Jordan]

The enemies of civilization, the assassin, as well as the people who excused and cheered him on, thought that they could stop Charlie Kirk's movement. In reality, they have not even stopped his lecture tour.

[Amanda Presta Giacomo]

And of course, he did take questions from people who disagreed with him. Here he is actually addressing this Kimmel controversy.

[Jim Jordan]

The shooter was a radical left wing activist who inscribed antifa slogans on the bullets and was dating a trans furry boyfriend. I don't think he voted for Trump. Kimmel lied. The audience turned on him. The affiliates turned on him. He deserves to lose his job. I'm frankly disappointed that he's getting his job again, but I'm confident even fewer people will watch it this time.

[John Bickley]

That's really impressive to see that tour continuing on in the honor of Kirk. Amanda, thank you so much for reporting.

[Amanda Presta Giacomo]

You're welcome.

[Georgia Howe]

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