Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday responded to former President Trump’s sharp social media post that criticized Kimmel earlier in the day.
“Looks like I’ve ruffled the feathers of the former Kentucky Fried president again. Apparently, even with all this going on, he’s still smarting from my joke about presidents at the Oscars.” ,” Kimmel said at the beginning of his monologue. Wednesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” broadcast.
“As you know, Donald Trump is in the first week of his criminal trial, the first president ever to be tried for a criminal offense for paying hush money to a porn movie star,” Kimmel continued. .
Kimmel told viewers that despite being in court “all day” Monday and Tuesday, Trump took Wednesday off and wrote a post criticizing the late-night host.
“Rant-A-Close woke up early in the morning and posted 165 vitriolic things about you,” Kimmel said.
Kimmel’s remarks were in response to a post on Truth Social Wednesday morning in which Trump slammed Kimmel. The former president called the late-night host a “stupid” and “stupid” and slammed his performance as Oscar host. Mr. Trump famously criticized Mr. Kimmel at last month’s awards ceremony, after which Mr. Kimmel read out Mr. Trump’s posts on live television and reviewed his own performance in real time.
“Stupid Jimmy Kimmel has still not recovered from his terrible performance as host of the Academy Awards and his massive ratings decline, and he especially revealed on air to the entire world that he suffers from TDS, commonly known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.” “That night, I told my truth about how bad a job he was doing,” Trump wrote on Wednesday, adding, “Maybe his wife, and even his management… “I think she begged him not to do that, saying, ‘Don’t read his truth, Jimmy, please don’t do it.'” We won’t do this,’ they said. ”
“He was made to look like a fool, and he was, and he also went down in television history as the worst host to ever win a prestigious Academy Award!” Trump continued.
Kimmel then added on Wednesday’s broadcast that Trump is “still upset about the Oscars,” even though the former president is currently on trial on 34 criminal charges in the hush-money scandal. .
“This was five weeks ago. My parents don’t even care anymore. He’s the only one still talking about this joke. It must have really gotten to him,” Kimmel continued.
Kimmel went through all of Trump’s Wednesday posts and pushed back on other claims by Trump.
“There’s only one person who suffers from ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome.’ His name is Donald Trump,” Kimmel said, responding to Trump’s claim that he suffers from “TDS.”
Kimmel also disputed Trump’s suggestion that Kimmel’s wife “begged” him not to read out Trump’s tweets at the ceremony.
In a nod to Will Smith’s rebuke of Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars, Kimmel said, “By the way, don’t mention my wife’s name in your mouth.”
Kimmel indicated that this year’s awards show had an uptick in ratings, despite President Trump’s claims. He also said he has been asked to host the Oscars ceremony again next year, pushing back against claims that Trump is the worst host of all time.
“I don’t know, but I’m sure that’s why they asked me to host the show again next year. I wasn’t planning on doing that, but now I might,” Kimmel said. . “You know what? Maybe you can watch it with the players on the TV in the Rikers rec room.”
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