The Oscars were back for the night of Sunday, March 10, and this year they received an unexpected boost of actually entertaining content from an unexpected source: former President Donald Trump. He, taking to Truth Social as the Oscars dragged on and ridiculed Jimmy Kimmel for the job he was doing. Kimmel then read Trump’s post to the audience, much to its amusement.
In his post, Trump argued not only that Kimmel was doing a bad job generally as the host, but that he is not a good or real comedian and “never can be.” Further, Trump commented that the show generally was boring and lacking in the sorts of entertaining moments that used to make the Oscars fun to watch, and the awards go to the wrong sorts of movies.
Beginning the post, Trump took both Kimmel and George Stephanopolous to task, saying, “Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. 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.”
Continuing, he then torched the event generally, saying, “Also a really bad politically correct show tonight, and for years – Disjointed, boring, and very unfair. 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, the “less than average” host, then decided to read the post out to the audience of the Oscars in what might have been the funniest part of the night, as it was Kimmel reading it and Trump had pulled no punches in mocking him.
Obviously miffed, Kimmel tried firing back with some insults of his own, snapping, after reading the post verbatim, “Blah, blah, blah. Now see if you can guess which former president just posted that on Truthsocial. Anyone? No? Well thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching. I’m surprised you’re still [watching] — isn’t it past your jail time?”
Watch Kimmel here:
Trump, for his part, didn’t post about the Oscars again after his broadside against Kimmel and the event generally. Instead he turned to attacking Fulton County DA Fani Willis, saying, “How can Fani Willis possibly oversee a case which is completely compromised and fraudulently brought by her and her highly paid lover? She NEVER paid cash as a reimbursement to him.”
He continued, “If she did, where did she get the cash, an even bigger problem? She lied in order to get out of a problem. Very easy to prove! Everything should be immediately dropped and let the American Patriots “go home.” Absolve them all from this terrible, and totally disproven, Witch Hunt! ELECTION INTERFERENCE in conjunction with the Crooked Joe Biden DOJ and White House!”
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