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Jimmy Kimmel Prepared to Move to Italy to Escape Trump
Daily Beast ^
| August 11, 2025
| Amber Levis
Posted on 08/11/2025 1:15:01 PM PDT by Red Badger
The comedian sat down with ex Sarah Silverman to discuss politics and possible means of escape.
Jimmy Kimmel might be the next American comedian to flee to Europe to escape President Donald Trump.
Kimmel, who has hosted the ABC late-night comedy show Jimmy Kimmel Live! for 22 years, shared his thoughts on Trump and the state of American politics with his ex-girlfriend, Sarah Silverman, on her podcast.
“A lot of people I know are thinking about where are they going to get citizenship?” Silverman said.
“I did get Italian citizenship,” Kimmel replied.
According to the Italian news agency Ansa, Kimmel obtained Italian citizenship this year after proving his ancestral lineage. Kimmel’s maternal great-grandparents emmigrated to New York from Naples after an earthquake devastated their hometown, Ischia, in 1883.
“What’s going on is as bad as you thought it was gonna be,” Kimmel remarked to Silverman, referring to Trump’s second term.
“Way worse,” Silverman chimed in.
“It’s so much worse; it’s just unbelievable,” Kimmel agreed. “I feel like it’s probably even worse than he would like it to be.”
In obtaining Italian citizenship, Kimmel joins other celebrities who have taken steps to flee the country or have already done so, including Rosie O’Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres, who fled to Ireland and England, respectively.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Society; TV/Movies; Travel
KEYWORDS: europe; italy; kimmel; lol; whosnext
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To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/11/2025 1:46:57 PM PDT
by
PGR88
To: Williams
Retirement.....living next to Clooney.
42
posted on
08/11/2025 1:48:17 PM PDT
by
PhiloBedo
(You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
To: Red Badger
43
posted on
08/11/2025 1:48:29 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
To: Jonty30
Real estate near Mount Aetna is probably very cheap.
44
posted on
08/11/2025 1:49:04 PM PDT
by
Salamander
(Please visit my profile page to help me go home again. https://www.givesendgo.com/GCRRD)
To: Red Badger
Is he bringing the Juggies with him?
45
posted on
08/11/2025 1:50:32 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
To: Red Badger
Why? Is he a child molester too?
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posted on
08/11/2025 1:50:51 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
To: Red Badger
Kimmel has to be one of the happiest beta males on earth.
47
posted on
08/11/2025 1:51:05 PM PDT
by
Vision
(“Our Democracy” means "Our Slush Fund." The Left is hate.)
To: BenLurkin
48
posted on
08/11/2025 1:53:48 PM PDT
by
Mark17
(Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF ISR pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
To: Red Badger
great one more ungrateful person leaving US :)
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posted on
08/11/2025 1:54:47 PM PDT
by
b4me
(Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
To: Red Badger
Addio, frocio piagnucoloso!
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posted on
08/11/2025 1:55:24 PM PDT
by
Alas Babylon!
(Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)
To: Red Badger
Oh, sure.
Like we all wouldn’t move to Italy if we could.
Che finocchio.
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posted on
08/11/2025 1:56:31 PM PDT
by
CaptainPhilFan
(Donald J Trump: OF the People FOR the People WITH the People)
To: Red Badger
Notice how none of these malcontents never just pick up and leave.
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posted on
08/11/2025 1:59:03 PM PDT
by
wjcsux
(On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
To: Red Badger
So just go.
Good God, these people keep threatening to leave…and they hardly ever do.
To: z3n
First thing I thought of when I saw this post!
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posted on
08/11/2025 2:10:34 PM PDT
by
milagro
(There is no peace in appeasement! ThereonMaube)
To: Red Badger
What a phony turd.
To: Williams
“Total nonsense. If he goes to Italy, it’s because he wants to go to Italy.”
He probably bought a Villa there years ago. Now he has a reason to spend more time at it.
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posted on
08/11/2025 2:11:41 PM PDT
by
SaxxonWoods
(Annnd....TRUMP IS RIGHT AGAIN.)
To: Red Badger
Why to Italy? Why not to a Socialist Paradise or a country that is not whiter than the US?
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posted on
08/11/2025 2:27:35 PM PDT
by
UnwashedPeasant
(The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism. )
To: Red Badger
WILL NOT MISS THAT POMPOUS ASS
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posted on
08/11/2025 2:28:22 PM PDT
by
ridesthemiles
(not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
To: Red Badger
Imagine him being of draft age during WWII. He’d curl up into a ball and remain catatonic.
To: simpson96
The sacrifices these multi-millionaires have to endure.
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posted on
08/11/2025 2:46:24 PM PDT
by
bray
(It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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