President Donald Trump was apparently up late on Wednesday ― and he didn’t like what he noticed on tv as he fired off a middle-of-the-night message geared toward TV host and longtime nemesis Jimmy Kimmel.
“Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air?” Trump wrote on Reality Social at 12:49 a.m. “Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it? Also, totally biased coverage. Get the bum off the air!!!”
Trump’s message got here after Kimmel devoted 10 minutes of his Wednesday evening monologue to hitting at most of the president’s sore spots without delay: his wealth, his household, loyalty, and his connections to late convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein, who was as soon as an in depth good friend.
Trump, who promised through the 2024 marketing campaign to launch the Epstein recordsdata, as an alternative spent a lot of the yr attempting to dam them. When it grew to become clear that Congress was going to go a invoice calling for the discharge anyway, he claimed he supported it ― though he may have launched the recordsdata on his personal, at any time, with out Congress.
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The invoice handed in a landslide and headed for Trump’s desk.
“Now, usually when Trump gets a bill, he declares bankruptcy and doesn’t pay it,” Kimmel cracked.
“Trump hasn’t been this nervous about signing something since Don Jr.’s birth certificate,” Kimmel stated.
Kimmel additionally identified that a lot of Trump’s largest allies defied him on this one.
“But this has also been a blow to Trump because some of his most loyal foot-lickers betrayed him,” Kimmel stated.
The monologue additionally ended with an animated penny, bitter about manufacturing of the coin ending, saying “fuck Donald Trump.”
It’s not clear how a lot of that, if something, Trump caught. However one thing about Kimmel triggered him sufficient that he needed to write about it to the world at almost 1 a.m.
It’s the second time in per week Trump has gone after a late evening TV host, as he additionally attacked “Late Night” host Seth Meyers over the weekend.
“Meyers has no talent, and NBC should fire him, IMMEDIATELY!” Trump raged on Reality Social.
Trump has an extended historical past of going after late evening hosts for making enjoyable of him, with Kimmel as considered one of his most frequent targets. He reportedly tried to have Kimmel censored throughout his first time period, attacked him typically by title through the 2024 marketing campaign, and in September celebrated when Kimmel was briefly suspended by ABC for feedback he made in regards to the killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
He was furious when Kimmel returned to TV lower than per week later and threatened authorized motion towards ABC.
Trump’s Wednesday evening assault on Kimmel was considered one of three messages the president posted after midnight.
He additionally bragged that he had one of many 10 greatest opening months for a president in historical past “according to most,” and in one other put up praised soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo, who visited him within the White Home earlier within the day, as “smart” and “cool.”
