While other late-night hosts were off this week, Jimmy Kimmel responded to Donald Trump’s comments about him sacrificing the former president at the Oscars.
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Jimmy Kimmel spent St. Patrick’s Day with his family in Los Angeles, and “the big orange leprechaun’s focus on St. Patrick’s Day was me,” he noted on Monday night.
Trump was “hateful” about a joke Kimmel told at the Oscars last Sunday, in which the host mocked Trump about his “Truth Society” posts. In an interview with Fox News, Trump mocked Kimmel for even mentioning him.
“I shouldn’t be surprised – Donald Trump has said many times that I have no talent, and Eric became jealous,” Kimmel said. “But he didn’t realize that I liked this. I loved that it bothered him so much. I loved that Fox chose a newsmaker that no one knew to interview him, and I especially loved that he was trying to turn the fact that everyone was laughing at him into Positive side.”
“He wants to get out, he wants to…confront me, I think, and then he will eventually read the truth about me,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News. “I said, ‘This guy is bigger than I thought. Stupid. This went viral – now all over the world – and all he had to do was shut up.”
“You’ve forgotten why it’s such a hit,” Kimmel replied, replaying his joke at the time: “I’m surprised you’re still up – isn’t your jail time already over?”
“Barbie is laughing at you!” Kimmel gloated. “Not only are they laughing at you on Oscar Sunday, there are now dozens of ‘You’re in jail now’ shirts for sale,” along with other merchandise online.
“If only I had shut up – imagine him telling anyone they should shut you up. That should be on his tombstone,” he added.
“Maybe you’re right in saying I’m stupid,” Kimmel continued. “We should take one of those cognitive tests, or take an IQ test together, or we could sit down and play Scrabble to see who has the bigger brain. I would be happy.”
In other Trump news, the former president’s lawyers were forced to tell a court on Monday that they could not find anyone to post a $454 million bond to cover his debt to the state of New York. “Gee, I wonder why,” Kimmel said. “Can you imagine that phone call? – ‘Hi, we represent Donald Trump. We were wondering if you could – hello?
“Who would have thought that a hard-earned reputation for not paying your bills would make it difficult to get credit,” he added. “So what’s the problem? Didn’t you say Mar-a-Lago is worth $1.8 billion? Just get a reverse mortgage!”
Kimmel also addressed Trump’s latest headline-grabbing statement on the campaign trail – a promise of “massacre” if he is not re-elected as president at a rally in Vandalia, Ohio, on Sunday. .
Experts have since debated whether Trump was referring to the literal bloodshed or the auto industry metaphorically, but Kimmel saw no need to argue. “Listen, there were very good people on both sides of the Holocaust,” he said, “but the fact is, the context that we should be looking at is not whether Trump actually meant the Holocaust, but that he was a lunatic and we actually have to Debate whether he meant it literally.”
