{"id":2051981,"date":"2025-09-26T15:22:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2051981"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:22:31","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-taunts-trump-with-a-blunt-personal-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-taunts-trump-with-a-blunt-personal-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Taunts Trump With A Blunt Personal Message"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> offered President Donald Trump<\/a> a reality check on Thursday night after his ratings surged, thanks in part to criticism from Trump himself.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis has been a tumultuous week,\u201d said Kimmel, who was suspended<\/a> last week after comments about conservatives\u2019 reactions after the assassination of activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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When Kimmel returned to TV on Tuesday, Trump threatened ABC<\/a> for airing the show \u2015 and some affiliates still aren\u2019t carrying it. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But interest in Kimmel has rarely been higher. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cEven though we are still being preempted in 60 American cities, on Tuesday, we had our second-highest-rated show in almost 23 years on the air,\u201d Kimmel said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Some 6.3 million people tuned in<\/a>, about three and a half times his usual audience, and the monologue racked up more than 21 million views on YouTube. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cAnd I want to say we couldn\u2019t have done it without you, Mr. President,\u201d Kimmel gloated. \u201cThank you very much.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump this week gave Kimmel some free publicity when he railed against the show\u2019s return about an hour before it aired. Trump said Kimmel\u2019s \u201caudience is GONE\u201d and added, \u201cLet Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Turns out the audience isn\u2019t gone, and not just for the first episode back. The second \u2015 on Wednesday \u2015 so far has more than 7 million views on YouTube. That\u2019s a drop from Tuesday, but far above the roughly 2 million views the segments usually receive. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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See more in his Thursday night monologue: <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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