Kimmel Torpedoes Trump After Rant On ‘Stupid Jimmy Kimmel’ — That Got Everything Wrong
Late-night comic Jimmy Kimmel torpedoed former President Donald Trump over a Truth Social rant that got every major and minor detail wrong.
Kimmel — host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live — also hosted the Oscar Awards telecast this year, which sparked bitter commentary and post-commentary from Trump and some expert live-trolling from Kimmel.
More than a month and half a felony trial jury later, Trump is apparently still mad. On Wednesday morning, he posted a wild rant that actually never managed to form a complete sentence, and which got a lot of facts wrong:
Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night, right before he stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, “Picture of the Year.” It was a CLASSIC CHOKE, one of the biggest ever in show business, and to top it off, he forgot to say the famous and mandatory line, “AND THE WINNER IS.” Instead he stammered around as he opened the envelope. Supposedly his wife, and even management, begged him not to do it, “DON’T READ HIS TRUTH, JIMMY, PLEASE DON’T DO THIS,” they said. He was made to look like a FOOL, which he is, and at the same time go down in Television History as the WORST HOST EVER OF THE ONCE VAUNTED ACADEMY AWARDS!
The 2024 Oscars did not have a “big ratings drop.” According to Deadline, “19.5M viewers tuned in to watch the 2024 Oscars, according to Nielsen data. That’s a 4% win over the 18.8 million who tuned in for the 95th annual Academy Awards in 2023, propelling the show to a 4-year audience high.”
The top award is called “Best Picture,” not “Picture of the Year.”
The famous line is “The Oscar Goes To –” not “AND THE WINNER IS.”
It was legendary actor Al Pacino who announced Best Picture, not Kimmel.
Pacino later explained “I just want to be clear it was not my intention to omit them, rather a choice by the producers not to have them said again since they were highlighted individually throughout the ceremony. I was honored to be a part of the evening and chose to follow the way they wished for this award to be presented.”
Kimmel only corrected the most glaring error, writing on Twitter, “In fairness to our former President, many stable geniuses confuse me with Al Pacino.”
Watch both moments above via ABC.
