Following a scathing critique from late-night host Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday evening, former US President Donald Trump replied with his trademark fury through his Truth Social post the next morning.
This time, the former president criticized Kimmel for hosting this year’s Academy Awards.
The former president routinely mocked President Joe Biden’s mental capacity and seemed to confuse the comedian with Oscar-winning actor Al Pacino.
The Truth Social post read, “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’.”
Why is Donald Trump attacking Jimmy Kimmel?
Trump blasted the late-night host for his alleged underwhelming performance as an Oscar host.
Trump took great delight in describing Kimmel’s alleged mistake during the announcement of the Best Picture award, calling it a “CLASSIC CHOKE” and describing Kimmel as the “WORST HOST EVER OF THE ONCE VAUNTED ACADEMY AWARDS!”
“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!” Trump scathed.
Al Pacino deviated from the Academy Awards by abruptly revealing the Best Picture winner, Oppenheimer, at this year’s ceremony.
The Irishman star then said that the ceremony’s producers had prevented him from familiarizing himself with the list of nominees beforehand.
In reaction to Trump’s attack, Kimmel reacted with humor, writing, “In fairness to our former President, many stable geniuses confuse me with Al Pacino.”
Despite Trump’s harsh criticism, Kimmel’s Oscar hosting received overwhelmingly positive feedback and had greater television ratings than any other awards ceremony in the previous four years.
Kimmel’s late-night show has a large viewership in its demographic.
Trump’s focus on Kimmel’s month-old performance is most likely due to lingering animosity over the late-night host’s choice to address their long-running feud on the Oscars stage despite being warned against it.
During Tuesday night’s show, Kimmel did not shy away from mocking Trump’s ongoing legal problems, including his hush-money criminal trial, as well as the dropping stock values of Trump’s media empire.
“If you bought Trump stock two weeks ago—and shame on you if you did—you lost half your money,” Kimmel quipped. “But if you hold on just a little bit longer, you might be able to lose all of it.”