President Donald Trump’s feud with Jimmy Kimmel just had its latest installment. It was sparked by the comedian joking about him on his late-night show on Nov. 18, and now the president is back to making unreasonable demands of ABC and the TV syndicates that broadcast the show across the nation.
The president has repeatedly admitted that he’s always been thin-skinned. If you want to roast Trump — even if it’s through some of the most brutal comedians — then he’d better also have a hand in it, and possibly call for some punches to be pulled lest it become a disaster like Tom Brady’s roast. Time and time again, Trump has proved that even hosting an anti-semite, racist white nationalist is acceptable in his books just as long as the host has never said anything bad about Trump in particular.
So when Trump initially called out Kimmel for his comments about Kirk, the issue wasn’t that he felt Kimmel’s morality didn’t align with the nation. The only issue was that Kimmel made fun of Trump for being more interested in talking to the press about the ballroom he was constructing rather than grieving someone he had called a friend.
Kimmel was infamously suspended, then reinstated, after Disney could no longer handle the public pressure. Then came the cleanup, with the Trump administration claiming they had nothing to do with it. So the last thing anyone expected was Trump attempting to get Kimmel taken off the air again after all the commotion last time.
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Kimmel, for his part, didn’t just take small swipes at the president; for some reason, these cut deep — especially as he mentioned the one topic Trump wants to avoid right now. The late-night comedian joked, “Trump is not a happy little meal right now. Every time he gets asked about Jeffrey Epstein, he loses his mind.” Kimmel continued, highlighting just how little he thinks of the president as a gentleman: “He said ‘Quiet, piggy’ to a reporter and it barely made the news. If a man spoke like that to a female co-worker in a workplace harassment training video, you’d go, ‘Ah, that’s over the top. Nobody would do that.’” And just continued on brutally roasting Trump about Epstein.
Trump is rage-posting about Jimmy Kimmel again after last night’s monologue absolutely cooked him.
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Just to be clear, Kimmel has never really stopped making fun of Trump and his antics. The two have had a back-and-forth ever since Trump entered politics. He just responds to Kimmel when the comedian says something that has particularly hurt his feelings. And for some reason, any mention of Epstein gets on his last nerve.
Trump’s relationship with the media has always been the elephant in the room when tracing his success all the way back to his real-estate days. If you ask all the journalists he worked with when he was making his way up the New York City social scene, they’d tell you they feel like they were conned. Even during his first campaign, he used his charm and awkward sense of humor to get away with things anyone else would usually pause to question.
He doesn’t mind being on Kimmel; he just would rather Kimmel talk about him calling a journalist “Piggy” without ever tying it back to his Epstein.
