Jimmy Kimmel responded to Trump’s comments Thursday encouraging ABC to fire the late-night host “soon” during the show’s final episode. Jimmy Kimmel Live!
During the monologue for Thursday night’s episode, a screenshot of the president’s Truth Social post was shown, which read: “When is ABC not-so-funny fake news network firing Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over one of the lowest-rated shows on television? People are angry. It better be soon!!!”
He said: “If my incompetent leadership of not only one of these, but one of the lowest ratings in history, is the reason behind my dismissal, then we should be out of a job.”
Kimmel also later argued that Trump’s anger toward him served as a distraction from more pressing political topics.
He added: “And of course, all of this is intended to distract us from the prices he did not lower on day one, and from the Trump-Epstein files that the prosecutor refuses to disclose, and to distract us from the illegal war that he started and cannot figure out how to get out of.”
The latest spat between Kimmel and Trump erupted after comments the former made in a fake meeting with White House reporters that he hosted on his late-night show. Last Thursday, before the WHCD conference, Kimmel poked fun at the event, sharing jokes at his own dinner. He addressed the First Lady, saying: “Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have the glow of a pregnant widow.”
Following the WHCD firing on Saturday, both Donald and Melania Trump called for the late-night host to be fired Jimmy Kimmel Live! For a joke. However, during Monday’s episode of his show, Kimmel did not apologize for what he called a “mildly grilled” remark, taking issue with Melania and the president’s request: “You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the First Lady puts out a statement demanding that you be fired from your job? We’ve all been there, right?”
The FCC then launched an early review of Disney’s television licenses on Tuesday. However, a Disney spokesperson said THR They were “confident that the record demonstrates our continued qualifications as licensees under communications law and the First Amendment and are prepared to demonstrate that through the appropriate legal channels. Our focus remains, as always, on serving viewers in the local communities where our stations operate.”
Kimmel continued to address Trump’s recent comments: “He also called Newsmax this afternoon to call me a lowlife and demand my firing again. This guy is so crazy, you would think I posted a picture of seashells or something. Isn’t there a war going on? Imagine if Franklin Roosevelt had taken to the airwaves during the Battle of the Bulge to complain about a Little Orphan Annie comic strip he didn’t like? Trump has three wars going on right now: Iranians, Ukrainians, Ukrainians, Iran.” Comedians.”
Kimmel also noted that during “the presidential campaign, there was a guy, a very prominent Republican guy, who seemed to be against the idea of gagging people you don’t agree with.” He then showed a clip of Trump saying he was against “censorship, blacklisting, and cancel culture.”
“I hate to say this, and I hope it doesn’t get me in trouble, I’m starting to think Donald Trump might be a hypocrite,” the late-night host responded.
Kimmel also responded to Trump on Tuesday’s episode of the PBS show Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The president was criticized for a joke he made at an event linked to the state visit of England’s King Charles. In the president’s speech, he recalled how his parents had been married for 63 years, and told his wife: “That’s a record we’ll never be able to match, honey. It won’t work that way.”
“Wait a minute. Did he make a joke about his death?” Kimmel joked during his monologue on Tuesday. “Oh my God, you should get fired for this.”
