Former President Trump on Sunday took his latest swipe at late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, whose response to the former president's criticism during the Oscars went viral on social media.
When asked on Fox News Channel's “MediaBuzz” about his long-running feud with Kimmel, Trump said: “Now look, look, Jimmy Kimmel is every… every night, he beats me up, I think, and his ratings are terrible.”
He continued, “I heard that he hits me all the time, so I thought I would hit him because I thought he was a lousy host.”
The ongoing differences between Trump and Kimmel came to the fore last week when Kimmel responded live on air to the former president's criticism of his hosting skills during the 1996 election.y Annual Oscars.
The ABC late-night TV show host said he wanted to share a “review” with the audience and later revealed that Trump wrote the so-called review on Truth Social less than an hour before Kimmel read it live.
“Has there been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars?” He said, Read Trump's message To the public. “His editorial was about a less than average person trying hard to be something he is not, and could never be.”
Kimmel responded by saying that he was “surprised” to see Trump still in prison, saying sarcastically, “Hasn't your prison term already passed,” referring to the various legal battles that the former president fought.
Trump said on Sunday that he did not expect Kimmel to read his post at the awards ceremony, especially so soon before the Academy Award for Best Picture was announced. The former president noted that some people behind the scenes asked Kimmel not to read the post out loud, which he did Kimmel also confirmed After the awards show.
“The big story now is that they all begged him not to do it… 'Don't do it.'” Maybe he was stupid, you know he had to act in a short period of time, like minutes, right? He had minutes because he was on the air. “He sees this thing and he wants to get out there and he wants to confront me I guess and so…he ends up reading my truth,” Trump joked. I said: This guy is dumber than I thought. It had spread so quickly, it had spread around the world now, and all he had to do was keep his mouth shut.
Trump and Kimmel have publicly criticized each other for years, with the TV host frequently making jokes about the former president, whom he has criticized on social media.
The Hill has reached out to ABC for comment.
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