Jimmy Kimmel’s Wife Boasts of Distancing From Family Members Over Severe TDS
“…to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family. And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it.”
I’ve seen scattered surveys about the issue of political disagreements among family and friends over the years, and every time, the results have been similar: the left is far more prone to cutting ties with people, including loved ones, over differences in political opinions than conservatives are.
The most recent example I could find backs this up:
Liberals are more likely to cut people off over politics.
No big surprise. pic.twitter.com/EGyWhCOejB— Old Curmudgeon Music Geek 🎶🎸🤓 (@klcheshire) September 8, 2025
As a prime example of this mentality, we turn to Jimmy Kimmel’s wife, Molly McNearney, who is the co-head writer for her husband’s show as well as its executive producer.
On the Thursday episode of the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast, both Kimmel and McNearney sat down to rehash the controversy over his September remarks about the suspect in Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the backlash over his suggesting that Tyler Robinson was MAGA.
The backlash included criticism from President Trump and FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, a brief suspension from ABC, and Nexstar ABC affiliates and Sinclair ABC affiliates preempting his programming in protest of what Kimmel said.
During the course of the conversation, McNearney revealed that she grew up in a conservative family and that, though she disagreed with family members who voted for Donald Trump in 2020, she kind of understood it at the time, considering her upbringing.
But since then, she has grown more estranged from some non-immediate family members over their unwillingness to think like her, especially after 2024, when she said she begged and pleaded for them not to vote for Trump and was ignored by most family members she contacted at the time:
“I’ve sent many emails to my family, like right before the election, saying, ‘I’m begging you. Here’s the 10 reasons not to vote for this guy. Please don’t.’ And I either got ignored by 90% of them or got truly insane response from a few,” McNearney said on Thursday’s episode, which she appeared on with Kimmel.
“It hurts me so much because of the personal relationships I now have, where my husband is out there fighting this man, and to me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family. And I unfortunately have kind of lost relationships with people in my family because of it.”
The TV writer said she was “angry all the time” at certain aunts, uncles, and cousins for helping elect Trump, yet claimed she still feels “sympathy” for them, calling them “deliberately misinformed.”
“This is not just Republican versus Democrat for me anymore, it’s family values,” she also said, adding that she wished she could “deprogram” herself “in some way” from feeling angry at the aunts and uncles she has who support Trump.
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🚨 NEW: Jimmy Kimmel’s Wife & Show Producer Molly McNearney Says She is Losing Relationships w/ Her Trump-Voting Family, Wishes She Could ‘Deprogram’ Herself
“To me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family … This is not just Republican… pic.twitter.com/gLPZUJ979K
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) November 8, 2025
Why does this estrangement only go in one direction? Any stories ever about Trump supporters disowning liberal relatives? Rare, at best. Says something about how politics for the left is hopelessly intertwined with ego and self worth. https://t.co/eMzRyZzL4Y
— GregGutfeld (@greggutfeld) November 8, 2025
— Lonewolfy 🐺 (@Lonewolfy777) November 8, 2025
This reminds me a bit of how despicably the Kennedy family acted over Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s support for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election. They couldn’t just agree to disagree with him privately. They had to make a big show out of suggesting that what he was doing was dangerous for America, and I believe at one point that one of the family members actually said in so many words that RFK Jr’s dad would have been ashamed of him.
I’m sorry, but it’s not “family values” to air your family’s political dirty laundry in public like McNearney did, as though that makes her the better person in all of this. It’s also not “family values” to insinuate your family members are stupid and misinformed because they don’t hold the same political beliefs that you do.
And relatedly, imagine accusing your family members of being “deliberately misinformed” while at the same time defending your husband over commentary he gave in which he deliberately misinformed his viewers about the political leanings of Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer.
And since McNearney is also a co-head writer for Kimmel’s show, we can also confidently say that it’s not “family values” to suggest conservatives who came down with COVID but who didn’t get the vaccine should be left to suffer painful deaths in hospital waiting rooms if there was a bed shortage in ICUs, something Kimmel proclaimed in a September 2021 broadcast.
“Dr. Fauci said if hospitals get any more overcrowded, they’re going to have to make some very tough choices about who gets an ICU bed,” Kimmel said. “That choice doesn’t seem so tough to me. Vaccinated person having a heart attack? Yes, come right in, we’ll take care of you. Unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo? Rest in peace, wheezy.” The audience enthusiastically applauded.
Jimmy Kimmel mocks the unvaccinated, says they should be refused ICU beds. pic.twitter.com/DNQTUMctOD
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) September 8, 2021
It’s also not a “family value” to tell a woman to sit back and shut up as she tries to stand up for women’s safe spaces and against men in women’s sports, something Kimmel did to Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) in 2022.
It’s also not a “family value” to preach about the joys of motherhood while simultaneously advocating for the right to terminate the lives of unborn children, which McNearney did during segments of Kimmel’s show over the last few years, as if a comedy show is the place for a lecture on the so-called “right” to abortion:
Jimmy’s wife @MollyMcNearney is sounding the alarm on abortion rights! 🚨 🚨 🚨 #ElectionDay pic.twitter.com/0UP7g2SVm6
— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@JimmyKimmelLive) November 8, 2022
It’s also not a “family value” to try and indoctrinate your children at such a young age with leftist propaganda well before they can formulate informed political opinions themselves, and yet that is exactly what Kimmel and McNearney have done:
She put her young son in a "Know Your Parasites" t-shirt with Donald Trump's face on it.
Lovely people. pic.twitter.com/hwsvahA31w
— Peachy Keenan (@KeenanPeachy) September 19, 2025
Last but not least, it is most certainly not a “family value” to cut ties with your family just because they sit on the opposite side of the political aisle from you. And if you do, you have just proven many a conservative’s point about the left actually being the intolerant ones, not the right.
If McNearney truly is “angry” at anyone, it should be at herself over her inability to reconcile the fact that good and decent people can have differences in political opinion and still love, respect, and care for one another at the end of the day.
As far as I’m concerned, if she can’t break bread with her aunts and uncles around the holidays due to severe TDS, that says a whole lot more about her than it does her family members, with none of it being good.
Utterly condescending garbage. If you are repulsed by the notion of people close to you who do not share your beliefs, they are not the problem, you are. https://t.co/u69oEeJN7R
— Mark Davis (@MarkDavis) November 8, 2025
Perhaps she should spend some of that time over the holidays that she won’t be spending with her aunts and uncles, taking a long, hard look in the mirror and working on some of that “deprogramming” she talked about. Because life really is too short for this stuff.
– Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via X. –
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Intolerance? This ghosting of friends and families has a flavor of autism. Michael Savage was right….it is a disease.
Happiest people on the planet right now are the ones this toxic harridan is screeching about.
In fact, one of them is rejoicing, “More Brussels sprouts for me!”
Fake concern for the sick and poor. It’s not like people are blind to the lip service they have paid.
Theyre raising their children to be intolerant of others views. Not exactly candidates for mom or dad of the year.
I think this happened quite a lot, particularly in the “border states,” just prior to the first Civil War, too.
The hardening of political opinions makes reconciling impossible; divorce seems inevitable.
Bye now..
Such a p$$y whipped soy boy
Clear to see who wears the pants in that family
Why would I care about what Mrs. Kimmel thinks?
Why should anyone care, for that matter? It’s a sad life they live, but that’s what they get for gaslighting themselves.
50% of Democrats wanted the unvaxxed thrown in camps and then 50% are fine with political violence. If these people had the power they would become Pol Pot all over again.
Truth. We have a TDS family in the neighborhood that stands and yells about Ukraine non-stop. Their vocabulary belies the lack of intelligence and they chose to bristle with every glance of their front-yard circus.
No one in the ‘hood likes them…go figure.
She says that she got to experience diversity of thought only after she left St. Louis. I’d like to know where in St. Louis she lived, because that’s one of those cities where if you’re in St. Louis County or the suburbs/bedroom communities it’s easier to say you’re from St. Louis and go into detail after that.
After typing the above, I looked it up. Chesterfield. She grew up in one of the most well-off suburbs of St. Louis and went to Catholic schools. I guess to her that means growing up in upscale suburb that votes Republican + Catholic schools = lack of diversity of thought.
But at the same time she’s on the record elsewhere as speaking fondly about growing up with midwestern, “St. Louis values” and wanting her children to have them. So she’s willing to bash her St. Louis childhood if it serves her purposes and praise it to the skies if it serves her purposes.
He hubby has been a hand puppet for Chuck You since wuflu.
Her husband is out “fighting Trump” every day? I thought he was a comedian with a late night show.
1 out of 2. He’s not funny
I have family that is both on the Left and Right. The Left will not talk about politics except when they do not hear our views so we have agreed not to talk politics to certain family,
We have a daughter who has a huge TDS case. Turned her family, husband and two boys to TDS. Her sane sister is hurt but can’t do anything T his level of hate is psychologically very damaging and sad.
So I wonder who “deliberately misinformed” all those relatives of hers?
The NY Times? The Washington Post? The LA Times?
Maybe late-nite TV comics?