{"id":2193131,"date":"2025-12-10T04:08:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2193131"},"modified":"2025-12-10T04:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T04:08:06","slug":"kimmel-takes-trumps-talent-jab-and-turns-it-brutally-back-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kimmel-takes-trumps-talent-jab-and-turns-it-brutally-back-around\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Takes Trump\u2019s \u2018Talent\u2019 Jab And Turns It Brutally Back Around"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kimmel hit back on Monday\u2019s broadcast of his late night show.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cThat was very hurtful,\u201d Kimmel sarcastically said, adding, \u201cI thought we were friends. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. He is really fixated. I\u2019m starting to think he might have a crush on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kimmel aired footage of Trump before the ceremony saying, \u201cIf I can\u2019t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don\u2019t think I should be president.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI agree. I\u2019m with you. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever agreed with anything more than that,\u201d Kimmel responded. \u201cIt seems like he\u2019s challenging me to a contest, which, if so, I\u2019m open to it. Let\u2019s have a talent competition. I\u2019ll come on, I\u2019ll tell a few jokes, I\u2019ll draw something, I\u2019ll play my clarinet. He can play golf, spank a porn star and ruin a country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kimmel mockingly claimed Trump is actually \u201ca very talented person\u201d before cutting to a series of clips that brutally undercut his commentary:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cI mean, the man can sing. The man can act. He can dance. He does impressions. He is athletic. And he\u2019s not only an amazing artist, he also is an incredible poet too. So much talent. So much talent. The only way he can contain it is to lock him up.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Kimmel at the end of his monologue earned a standing ovation when he announced he\u2019d extended his contract with ABC until May 2027 or \u201cuntil the world ends, whichever comes first,\u201d he said, despite Trump\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/jimmy-kimmel-trump-quiet-piggy_n_69200144e4b047290e29c016\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"repeated demands\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6937e193e4b064dbeef01ea1\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"69200144e4b047290e29c016\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\">repeated demands<\/a> that he be taken off air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Watch Kimmel\u2019s full monologue here:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kimmel hit back on Monday\u2019s broadcast of his late night show. \u201cThat was very hurtful,\u201d Kimmel sarcastically said, adding, \u201cI thought we were friends. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going on. He is really fixated. I\u2019m starting to think he might have a crush on me.\u201d Kimmel aired footage of Trump before the ceremony saying, \u201cIf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2193132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[22389,23060],"class_list":["post-2193131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-donald-trump","tag-jimmy-kimmel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Kimmel-Takes-Trumps-\u2018Talent-Jab-And-Turns-It-Brutally-Back.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2193131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2193133,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2193131\/revisions\/2193133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2193132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2193131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2193131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2193131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}