Daniel Baldwin Blasts Jimmy Kimmel for Fueling Hatred Before Trump Assassination Attempt

Actor Daniel Baldwin criticized Jimmy Kimmel’s political rhetoric after the latest assassination attempt against President Donald Trump. He accused the late-night host of "planting this kind of hatred."

In a clip from the May 3 episode of "The Daniel Baldwin Show," first highlighted by Breitbart on Monday, Baldwin expressed sadness over reactions to the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner last month. Authorities say a gunman targeted Trump and members of his administration there.

Baldwin seized on the attack to condemn anti-Trump attitudes in Hollywood and Kimmel’s repeated barbs at the president. He said that even in an entertainment culture long hostile to Republicans, he had never heard public figures speak so casually about political violence.

"I remember being on movie sets with big name people, Oscar winner, high-paid talent," Baldwin said. "And they would just be sh----- on some politician or person, like, ‘Yeah, someone should get him.’ ‘Someone should shoot him,’ once someone said in front of me. And I thought, ‘Wow, your voice carries weight. You know, your words have followers and people.’"

Baldwin questioned if Kimmel’s late-night commentary could stoke hatred toward Trump.

"Does Jimmy Kimmel not realize that when you keep bombarding in every one of your monologues and planting this kind of hatred in the American public or the people that follow you, someone might act on that?" Baldwin asked.

"Now, does that exonerate Kimmel of any wrongdoing? Yeah, he didn’t do it, but did he play a role in it? Does he care that he played a role? Is that the point? Does he do it because he wants that to happen? I don’t know the answer to those questions, but I’m sad, man," he added.

Baldwin drew a contrast with Hollywood’s response to the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan. He cited a resurfaced clip of Johnny Carson addressing the delayed Academy Awards after Reagan was shot.

"We never hated anyone. We never wanted someone to die or laughed about them dying. It’s really disturbing to me," Baldwin said.

The second-oldest of the four Baldwin brothers, Baldwin became a conservative in 2016. He said the hostility now from some in the entertainment industry has altered his view of his profession.

"I used to be proud to say I was an actor," Baldwin said. "You walk into a room now and say, yeah, I’m an actor. I’m a movie actor and television actor... It’s not something I’m as proud to say or is it as big a deal because of the hatred that comes out from that side."

Kimmel drew fire after joking days before the shooting that first lady Melania Trump had the glow of an "expectant widow" in a mock White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner skit. The remark led the president and first lady to demand his firing. Kimmel called it "a very light roast joke" about Trump’s age, not a call to violence.

"It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination," Kimmel said.

Last year, Disney briefly suspended Kimmel after controversial remarks about the assassination of Charlie Kirk caused outrage. ABC said the show would be preempted indefinitely. He returned days later and said he never meant to make light of Kirk’s death.

ABC did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.