‘He has no idea what he’s talking about’: Karoline Leavitt hits back over Obama’s Kimmel comments

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has hit back at former US president Barack Obama over his comments on the indefinite axing of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’. “With all due respect to former president Obama, he has no idea what he’s talking about,” she said. “The decision to fire Jimmy Kimmel and to cancel his show came from executives at ABC. That has now been reported. I can assure you it did not come from the White House, and there was no pressure given from the President of the United States. “It was a decision that was made by ABC because Jimmy Kimmel chose to knowingly lie to his audience on his program about the death of a highly respected man when our country is in a state of mourning.” This comes after Mr Obama warned that the Trump administration was taking cancel culture to a “new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn't like”. Mr Obama urged media companies to “start standing up” to this kind of “government coercion” rather than “capitulate to it”.