CNN host Erin Burnett noted the White House’s snide response to Kimmel’s suspension on Wednesday following comments he made about Charlie Kirk. Then she passed the baton to Frum, a former speechwriter for the younger President Bush.

Frum painted a frightening future for opposing-party politics as the 2026 midterms approach.

“We don’t have to speculate about what comes next because President Trump, in his televised speech after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and his aide Stephen Miller have already told us what is coming next,” he said.

Frum dug further into his frightening forecast.

“Look, Donald Trump has maliciously attacked the standards of living of ordinary Americans with his tariffs,” he said. “He’s enormously corrupt. He’s taking billions of dollars in meme coins and other kinds of crypto coins. He cannot afford a free and fair election in 2026, and what he thinks about every moment of the day is, ‘How do I head off a free and fair election in 2026?’ And what is happening now is part of a hastily developed strategy to seize this opportunity created by this terrible tragedy afflicting a family, afflicting many people who admired him, to make political competition in the United States unfree and unfair.”

ABC canceled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” until further notice amid FCC threats and pressure from affiliate groups that own blocks of stations that carry the show.

The show’s reckoning has become a flashpoint between conservatives claiming Kimmel had it coming ― and they include Trump ― and those decrying the move as a blatant stifling of free speech.