Jimmy Kimmel refuses to cease mocking Trump: ‘I do not like bullies’

Jimmy Kimmel has responded to President Donald Trump’s feedback concerning the late night time host’s return to air, ABC having lifted his extremely controversial suspension on Tuesday. Trump was predictably sad with Kimmel’s return, posting to Fact Social, “I am unable to consider ABC Pretend Information gave Jimmy Kimmel his job again.”

“You’ll be able to’t consider they gave me my job again? I am unable to consider we gave you your job again!” quipped Kimmel.

Stating that Kimmel “places the Community in jeopardy by enjoying 99% optimistic Democrat GARBAGE,” the president additional said that he was contemplating “take a look at[ing] ABC out on this,” implying he would file a lawsuit.

“Final time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million {Dollars},” wrote Trump. “This one sounds much more profitable. A real bunch of losers!”

“Solely Donald Trump would attempt to show he wasn’t threatening ABC by threatening ABC,” quipped Kimmel.

Trump seems to have conflated separate networks which air discuss reveals, as that is an obvious reference to the $16 million settlement Paramount agreed to pay him in July. The settlement was lambasted by First Modification and press freedom advocates, and labelled a “large fats bribe” by Late Present host Stephen Colbert. Paramount subsidiary CBS cancelled the Late Present per week later, with the Trump administration approving Paramount’s $8 billion merger with Skydance lower than per week after that.

Free speech issues additionally arose relating to Kimmel’s suspension, which got here simply hours after Federal Communications Fee (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr threatened ABC’s broadcasting licence if it did not “take motion” towards Kimmel.

“[Trump’s staffers have] been bending over backwards to say, ‘Oh, he by no means threatened.’ JD Vance as we speak made the declare that what the FCC chairman mentioned was a joke. Which, I do not — perhaps that was a joke?” mentioned Kimmel.

“After which the second Trump is alone, he sits on the bathroom, he will get his grubby little thumbs on his cellphone, and he instantly blows their excuses to smithereens and says it was scores that obtained me fired. Has anybody ever been fired for unhealthy scores on a Wednesday?”

Kimmel drew 1.77 million viewers in Q2 this yr, coming second solely to Colbert amongst late night time reveals of their time slot. Although to be honest, Kimmel additionally identified that Trump would find out about unhealthy scores, with a number of polls placing the president’s approval score at 55 to 56 p.c unfavourable.

“He has a few of the worst scores any president has ever had,” mentioned Kimmel. “So on behalf of all of us, welcome to the crappy scores membership, Mr. President.”

Kimmel then addressed critics who consider he’s too arduous on Trump.

“There are nonetheless lots of people who suppose I ought to be pulled off the air for making enjoyable of Donald Trump,” mentioned Kimmel. “So I need to clarify. I speak about Trump greater than something as a result of he is a bully. I do not like bullies. I performed the clarinet in highschool, okay? So I simply do not like him. 

“Donald Trump is an old style ’80s film model bully taking your lunch cash, and should you give it to him as soon as, he’ll take it once more. Two issues he loves, lunch and cash…. Rooting for this bully, I do not care what aspect you are on, it is like rooting for Biff from Again to the Future. Actually, Donald Trump was the mannequin for Biff in Again to the Future. And that is who individuals are cheering for? I do not find out about you, [but] I am with Marty McFly.”

Kimmel did not spend all of his time on his personal fraught relationship with the U.S. president, although. He additionally touched on the outsized right-wing fury towards a stopped escalator that Trump stood on on the United Nations on Tuesday, with the president having demanded an investigation and the arrest of whoever had turned it off.

“Trump won’t launch the Epstein information, however we might be doing a radical and full investigation into who stopped his escalator,” Kimmel joked.