Former President Trump on Sunday took his newest swipe at late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, whose response to the previous president’s criticism through the Oscars went viral on social media.
When requested on Fox Information’s “MediaBuzz” about his long-time feud with Kimmel, Trump mentioned, “Now look, look, Jimmy Kimmel is each is…each evening, he hits me I assume, his rankings are horrible.”
“I hear he hits me on a regular basis, so I figured I’d hit him as a result of I believed he was a awful host,” he continued.
Trump and Kimmel’s long-time back-and-forth was delivered to the floor final week when Kimmel responded on reside tv to the previous president’s criticism of his internet hosting abilities through the 96th annual Academy Awards.
The ABC late-night TV host mentioned he needed to share a “evaluation” with the viewers and later revealed Trump wrote the so-called evaluation on Reality Social lower than an hour earlier than Kimmel learn it on reside tv.
“Has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel on the Oscars?” he mentioned, studying Trump’s put up to the viewers. “His opening was that of a lower than common individual attempting too arduous to be one thing which he’s not, and by no means could be.”
Kimmel hit again and mentioned he was “stunned” to see Trump nonetheless up, quipping “Isn’t it previous your jail time,” in a nod to the previous president’s numerous authorized battles.
Trump on Sunday mentioned he didn’t count on Kimmel to learn his put up on the awards, particularly so shut earlier than the Academy Award for Finest Image was to be introduced. The previous president identified Kimmel was advised by some backstage to not learn the put up aloud, which Kimmel additionally confirmed after the awards present.
“Now the massive story is that all of them begged him to not do it…’don’t do it.’ He in all probability stupidly, you understand he needed to act in a brief time period, like minutes, proper? He had minutes as a result of he’s on air. He sees this factor and he needs to go on the market and he needs to, I assume confront me and so…he finally ends up studying my Reality,” Trump quipped. “I mentioned, ‘this man’s even dumber than I believed.’ The factor went viral, it’s been all around the world now and all he needed to do is hold his mouth shut.”
Trump and Kimmel have publicity criticized each other for years, with the TV host making frequent jokes in regards to the former president, who calls him out on social media.
The Hill reached out to ABC for remark.
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