ABC canceled Tim Allen’s hugely successful Last Man Standing sitcom and swears his conservative politics had nothing to do with it. However, let’s take a quick look at what happened leading up to the show getting the axe.

On an episode last year, Allen’s character lambasted the politically correct culture. In another, his character dressed as Donald Trump for Halloween. Allen also appeared on Fox News to call out Hollywood hypocrites who bully Trump supporters and likened being a conservative in Hollywood to 1930s Germany on Jimmy Kimmel Live. This is not exactly the kind of behavior that will secure a career. In fact, TruthRevolt predicted the show might get canceled for his outspokenness.

And here we are. ABC canceled Last Man Standing after six seasons, and those political statements, even though it was one of the network’s highest-rated comedies. 

Allen said on Twitter in May, “Stunned and blindsided by the network I called home for the last six years.”

Shortly after, ABC Entertainment Chief Channing Dungey cryptically stated when asked if politics had anything to do with the cancelation, “I wouldn’t say that was the deciding factor. I canceled [it] for the same business and scheduling reasons I canceled [three other low-ratings shows].”

But on Sunday, however, Dungey spoke at the Television Critics Association and more definitively stated, “Politics had absolutely nothing to do with it.”

To that we say, riiight. We believe you.