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Jimmy Kimmel Stops the Oscars to Fire Back at Donald Trump, Who Slammed the Show as ‘Boring’: ‘Isn’t It Past Your Jail Time?’
Variety ^ | 3/10/24 | Zach Sharf

Posted on 03/10/2024 7:52:33 PM PDT by DallasBiff

Jimmy Kimmel took a moment during the Oscars telecast right before Al Pacino took the stage to present best picture to “Oppenheimer” to read aloud Donald Trump‘s latest social media post that bashed Kimmel as this year’s Oscars host.

“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars,” Trump asked his followers. “His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC ‘talent,’ George Slopanopoulos. He would make everybody on stage look bigger, stronger, and more glamorous.”

“Also a really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years – Disjointed, boring, and very unfair,” Trump continued. “Why don’t they just give the Oscars to those that deserve them. Maybe that way their audience and TV ratings will come back from the depths. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Kimmel fired back at Trump by saying, “Blah, blah, blah…Okay, now, see if you can guess which former president just posted that on RruthSsocial. Anyone? No? Well, thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still — isn’t it past your jail time?”

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To: Seaplaner
Picking unnecessary fights with influential show people?

Kimmel influential?

Maybe influential for a dictionary definition of the word idiot.

41 posted on 03/10/2024 9:10:16 PM PDT by DallasBiff (Apology not accepted.la is not the sharpest knife in the drawer)
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To: Seaplaner

“He simply does not understand.”

Yeah, you are so much smarter than Trump! Trump understands nothing! Where are the buildings you built that changed the skylines of cities? Where is you Mega Million Dollar Empire?


42 posted on 03/10/2024 9:10:37 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: vetvetdoug
Kimmel is the most uninspired comedian to curse Late Night? Who the heck even watches The Oscars these days?
43 posted on 03/10/2024 9:12:23 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I saw one disappear down the toilet this afternoon.


44 posted on 03/10/2024 9:13:13 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: rottndog

It’s a good 40+ years since I wasted a minute watching these clowns. And I couldn’t name any of the movies up for awards if you offered me a 40 gallon garbage bag of Benjamins.


45 posted on 03/10/2024 9:17:56 PM PDT by allblues (God is neither a Republican nor a Democrat but Satan is definitely a Democrat)
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To: vetvetdoug

Uhm, Jimmy, it looks like it’s YOUR side of the political aisle that has this obsession with JAILING its opponents.

Perhaps you might want to step back from where you are and take a SOBER look at what you and your fellow travelers are proposing, because the pendulum ALWAYS swings back...


46 posted on 03/10/2024 9:19:26 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: vetvetdoug

Jimmy is the village idiot. He is insufferable and always looks miserable bc he is owned by Democrats.


47 posted on 03/10/2024 9:28:04 PM PDT by HonkyTonkMan ( )
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To: vetvetdoug

Can someone figure out the last time the Oscars did not go out of their way to insult Conservatives?


48 posted on 03/10/2024 9:32:19 PM PDT by Tai_Chung
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To: Newtoidaho

That list looks a lot like my “special” list for someday.
Of course I mean the Hallmark Christmas cards, nothing bad.

One thing I really liked about Nixon was his enemies list. Actually all politicians have them, even at lowest local level. Have to keep track.

But then in one of the maybe 10 or 12 books about Norman Mailer I’ve read (3 new books came out last year) by Peter Manso he revealed that Mailer kept a list with “name” “what was done against me” and “action I took against him.” Most had no action taken. I like the idea a lot.


49 posted on 03/10/2024 9:35:05 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: vetvetdoug

Thanks for giving President Trump the airtime Jimmy. Keep saying his name.


50 posted on 03/10/2024 10:17:09 PM PDT by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Seaplaner

For Trump, bashing the Oscars and getting return fire from Kimmel is free publicity and antagonizes his adversaries so as to get them to help consolidate his base of support. The astonishing part is that Kimmel and the Oscar crowd seem genuinely aware that they are actually helping Trump and damaging their own professional and business interests.


51 posted on 03/10/2024 10:48:21 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: Seaplaner

For Trump, bashing the Oscars and getting return fire from Kimmel is free publicity and antagonizes his adversaries so as to get them to help consolidate his base of support. The astonishing part is that Kimmel and the Oscar crowd seem genuinely aware that they are actually helping Trump and damaging their own professional and business interests.


52 posted on 03/10/2024 10:48:21 PM PDT by Rockingham (`)
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To: Tai_Chung

When Ted Koppel (who used to be the anchor for ABC’s Nightline) asked Jimmy Kimmel that the oscars tilt left and would have a hard time attracting conservatives to watch, Jimmy insisted that some conservatives secretly watch the oscars but don’t tell their friends. What Jimmy did tonight doesn’t help the oscars attract new viewers for next year.


53 posted on 03/10/2024 10:48:26 PM PDT by convoter2016
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To: convoter2016

Trump just tricked them into acknowledging him at the Oscars, and demonstrating how biased they are at the same time.


54 posted on 03/10/2024 10:59:40 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: inchworm

I thought the Oscars were about movies.
Why was Kimmel and others doing politics?
Hint: They know the movies made are no good. Gotta distract the audience.


55 posted on 03/10/2024 11:02:18 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: convoter2016

I thought the Oscars were about movies.
Why was Kimmel and others doing politics?
Hint: They know the movies made are no good. Gotta distract the audience.


56 posted on 03/10/2024 11:09:37 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: TECTopcat
(Trump) has to recognize that these sort of comments turn off women and that is why despite being up +10-15% on any issue like who would perform better on economy, Trump is only up 1.8% points on Biden in the RealClearPolitics average of polls,Trump should be up +10 but every time he says something like this his numbers with women go down. Not smart and stands a good chance of blowing it.

So you're saying that elections are a beauty/popularity contest for women and candidates should sacrifice principles, say reassuring things and look good?

I've come to realize that women getting the vote handed the Democrat Party a lifeline when it should have died years ago. The party that's thrived on lies and fear-mongering far too long and at this time we need husbands to step up and assert...not these soy-boys in pajamas mewling "yes dear". Those ones who are pretending NOT to be homosexuals.

57 posted on 03/10/2024 11:21:55 PM PDT by MikelTackNailer (If Biden took Trump "out back with a bike chain" he'd better have it oiled up for where it's going.)
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To: vetvetdoug

Trump could have ignored the Oscars show, Kimmel could have ignored Trump.

Trump continued to show he has to comment on everything, Kimmel showed why we don’t care about the Oscars and haven’t cared for many years.


58 posted on 03/10/2024 11:39:22 PM PDT by Wuli (ena)
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To: Seaplaner

“It’s about every vote.”

Listen to you and we get stiffs like Bob Dole, George Bush, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Jeb Bush. For once we have someone on our side who fights back. Better that than those gentlemen losers.


59 posted on 03/11/2024 12:03:11 AM PDT by rxh4n1
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To: vetvetdoug

Trump is one hundred percent correct. I’m glad it rattled the Hollywood loonies.


60 posted on 03/11/2024 12:07:13 AM PDT by Trump_Triumphant
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