Jimmy Kimmel and former President Trump have had a long-standing feud. The late-night host frequently pokes fun at targeting the former president on social media.
Kimmel fired back at Trump while hosting the Academy Awards on Sunday night, saying he wanted to share a “review” of his performance with the audience. Then, less than an hour after Kimmel read out his book review, Trump posted a critique of Kimmel on Truth Social, revealing that he had written the book review.
“Was there ever a worse host at the Oscars than Jimmy Kimmel?” he said as he read President Trump’s post to the audience. “His beginnings were as a below-average person trying too hard to be something he was not and could never be.”
He then said he was “surprised” to see the former president still awake and asked, “Isn’t his prison term already over?” Referring to Trump’s numerous trials.
Here are five other flashpoints in the ongoing Kimmel-Trump feud.
Trump appeared on Kimmel in 2015
The former president appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” That was before he won the Republican presidential nomination in the 2015-2016 election. He called for Republican unity while attacking former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a Republican who ran for the White House in 2016.
Kimmel also released a satirical children’s book that parodied Trump’s campaign rhetoric at the time, and credited Trump as the author of a mock book titled “Winners Are Not Losers.” It pointed out.
“Winners are winners, not losers, just like me!” Kimmel read. “A loser is a loser, which one will you be?”
Kimmel’s emotional appeal to Obamacare overhaul
Kimmel made several emotional calls on President Trump and Republicans’ pledge to overhaul Obamacare in 2017.
He revealed in May 2017 that his son was born with a rare heart defect. In a tearful monologue, he emphasized that before Obamacare, many people might not have been able to get health insurance if they had pre-existing conditions.
Later that year, he devoted much of his nightly monologue to urging lawmakers to vote against overhauling the health care law, saying at the time that President Trump would “sign anything that repeals Obamacare.” The president suggested he might not even have signed it. He knows what’s in the bill co-sponsored by Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-LA) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA).
After a week-long emotional monologue in September 2017, Kimmel thanked then-Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) opposed the bill.
Kimmel’s mock trailer for the Trump warning system
Kimmel released a mock Hollywood-style trailer that pokes fun at President Trump’s proposed national alert system in 2018. The late-night host said the terrorist incident was a “bad idea” about the National Alert System, which allows the administration to send warnings to all Americans in the event of a natural disaster or disaster.
The trailer focused on a family driving through the city when they notice what appears to be a warning tweet on Trump’s cell phone. Her parents appear to be confused because they blocked President Trump on Twitter.
“This is not a tweet,” the man explains. “This is a text message.”
“No collusion!” the alert reads. “Witch Hunt!”
The family then jumped out of the car as others in the city frantically responded to the text messages. At one point, as chaos engulfed the city, a man cut off his hand while trying to remove his smartwatch.
Kimmel slams President Trump over gun control
Kimmel criticized Trump for failing to take action on gun violence after the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, which killed 17 people.
“Children are being killed,” Kimmel said in a tearful monologue. “Do something. We haven’t talked about it yet. You haven’t done anything about it yet.”
Kimmel reversed the assertion by Trump and other Republicans that gun violence is a mental health problem, saying he agrees with them. Because “if you don’t think we have to do something about it, you’re clearly mentally ill.”
Trump administration officials file complaint against Disney
Kimmel continued to criticize the former president during his time in the White House and after leaving office in 2021, targeting his campaign comments and numerous legal battles.
Kimmel’s repeated jabs appear to have reached the former president during his stay at the White House. rolling stone Last year, it was reported that Trump had instructed his staff to complain to ABC’s parent company, Disney, about a comedian’s joke about him on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in 2018 when he was president.
Two former Trump officials confirmed to the magazine that they made two separate calls to Disney to express Trump’s anger over Kimmel’s joke.
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