{"id":327316,"date":"2026-05-01T10:22:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=327316"},"modified":"2026-05-01T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:52:43","slug":"kimmel-says-trump-feud-is-distraction-from-trump-epstein-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/kimmel-says-trump-feud-is-distraction-from-trump-epstein-files\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Says Trump Feud Is Distraction &#8216;From Trump-Epstein Files&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJimmy Kimmel fired back at Trump\u2019s Thursday comments encouraging ABC to fireplace the late night host \u201csoon\u201d in the course of the latest episode of <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the course of the monologue for Thursday night\u2019s episode, a screenshot of the president\u2019s Truth Social post was shown, which reads, \u201cWhen is ABC Fake News Network firing seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel, who incompetently presides over considered one of the Lowest Rated shows on Television? Persons are indignant. It higher be soon!!!\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cIf incompetently presiding over not only considered one of, but the bottom rating in history is the rationale I must be fired, we must always each be out of a job,\u201d he said, as a photograph of a headline stating Trump\u2018s approval rankings had slipped got here on screen, continuing, \u201cSince you\u2019re not doing too good either.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKimmel also later argued that Trump\u2019s outrage towards him was to function a distraction for more pressing political topics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cAnd naturally, all of that is is supposed to distract us from the costs he didn\u2019t lower on day one, and from the Trump-Epstein files that his attorney general refuses to release, and to distract us from the illegal war he began and may\u2019t determine methods to get out of,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe newest feud between Kimmel and Trump errupted following comments the previous made at a fake White House Correspondents\u2019 he hosted on his late night show. Last Thursday, before the WHCD took place, Kimmel poked fun on the event,\u00a0sharing jokes\u00a0for his own dinner. He addressed the First Lady by noting, \u201cTake a look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you will have a glow like an expectant widow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAfter the\u00a0shooting\u00a0at Saturday\u2019s WHCD, Donald and Melania Trump each\u00a0called for\u00a0the late night host to be fired from\u00a0<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>\u00a0for the joke. Nevertheless, in the course of the Monday episode of his show, Kimmel\u00a0didn&#8217;t apologize\u00a0for what he called a \u201clight roast\u201d remark and pushed back on Melania and the president\u2019s request: \u201cYou realize how sometimes you get up within the morning and the primary lady puts out a press release demanding you be fired out of your job? We\u2019ve all been there, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe FCC then launched an early review of Disney\u2018s broadcast TV licenses on Tuesday. Nevertheless, a Disney spokesperson\u00a0told\u00a0<em>THR<\/em>\u00a0they were \u201cconfident that record demonstrates our continued qualifications as licensees under the Communications Act and the First Amendment and are prepared to point out that through the suitable legal channels. Our focus stays, as all the time, on serving viewers within the local communities where our stations operate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKimmel continued to deal with Trump\u2019s latest comments: \u201cHe also called into Newsmax this afternoon to call me a low life and demand I be fired again. This guy is so mad, you&#8217;ll think I posted an image of seashells or something. Isn\u2019t there a war dragging on? Imagine if FDR had taken to the airwaves in the course of the Battle of the Bulge to complain a few Little Orphan Annie comic strip he didn\u2019t like? Trump has three wars occurring right away; Iranians, Ukrainians and comedians.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKimmel also noted that in \u201cthe campaign for president, there was a person, a really outstanding Republican man, who appeared to be against this concept of muzzling people you don\u2019t agree with.\u201d He then showed a clip of Trump saying he was against \u201ccensorship, blacklisting and cancel culture.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe late night host responded, \u201cI hate to say this, and I hope it doesn\u2019t get me in trouble, I\u2019m beginning to think\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0may be a hypocrite.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tKimmel also pushed back\u00a0against Trump on Tuesday\u2019s episode of\u00a0<em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!,<\/em>\u00a0slamming the president for a joke he made at an event tied to the state visit by England\u2019s King Charles. Within the president\u2019s speech, he recalled how his parents were married for 63 years, and told his wife, \u201cThat\u2019s a record we won\u2019t find a way to match, darling. It\u2019s just not gonna work out that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWait a minute. Did he just make a joke about his death?\u201d Kimmel joked during his monologue on Tuesday. \u201cMy God, you ought to be fired for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Donald Trump Attacks Jimmy Kimmel AGAIN &amp; Wants Him Fired \u201cSOON&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jYJRgh5xVTw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel fired back at Trump\u2019s Thursday comments encouraging ABC to fireplace the late night host \u201csoon\u201d in the course of the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! In the course of the monologue for Thursday night\u2019s episode, a screenshot of the president\u2019s Truth Social post was shown, which reads, \u201cWhen is ABC Fake News [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20669],"tags":[32679,3697,1210,7204,1313,51221],"class_list":["post-327316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hollywood","tag-distraction","tag-feud","tag-files","tag-kimmel","tag-trump","tag-trumpepstein"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327319,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327316\/revisions\/327319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}