'Thinnest skin!' Analysts say Barstool hosts inadvertently exposed MAGA's vulnerability

President Donald Trump's efforts to remove late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel from the airwaves riled some hosts at Barstool Sports on Thursday, and their response inadvertently revealed one of Trump's biggest vulnerabilities, according to two analysts.

Tim Miller, writer-at-large for The Bulwark, and Sam Stein, the publication's managing editor, discussed the way personalities like Barstool KFC and Barstool Nate responded to news that "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" had been suspended "indefinitely" on a new episode of "Bulwark Takes." The Barstool hosts slammed the suspension of Kimmel and claimed it was driven by a corrupt bargain.

"These guys, they have the thinnest skin," Stein said. "The Kimmel thing was a line from Monday, and it wasn't even that it wasn't funny particularly, but it wasn't like wildly offensive as far as everything else goes, but they have just really thin skin."

The podcast hosts played a clip of Barstool host Kirk Minihane ranting about the Kimmel issue during an episode of 'The Kirk Minihane Show' that aired Thursday.

"Right now...the extreme right is the biggest group of p------ that has ever existed in America," Minihane said. "Because of a girl with green hair, or a guy swims against the girls every once in a while, you f------ p------ have broken in half, led by the duo of Donald Trump and 'consequence culture' [Dave] Portnoy."

Miller described Barstool as being part of the "conservative cultural milieu," even though they don't neatly fit into traditional conservatism.

He added that the way Minihane talked about the highly politicized event seemed to resonate with people.

"He's out there being like not only is this a chill on free speech, but these guys are f------ p------ right now," Miller said. "It's like, 'Oh, you can't take a little joke from Jimmy Kimmel? Oh, the Starbucks barista is mean to you?'"

"To me, I think that's actually super important because, A) it's coming from inside the house on Barstool; B) it's using the language of Barstool to go after MAGA," Miller added. "Stop being such snowflakes about all this. I think that could work, actually, that could resonate with people."