‘We Won, the President Lost’: Jimmy Kimmel Reflects on Suspension and How ‘Tyranny Is Booming’ in America in Christmas Day Message

https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/jimmy-kimmel-christmas-day-we-won-donald-trump-lost-1236616489/

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  1. > For its 2025 annual Alternative Christmas Message, broadcast by the Brit network since 1993 with an eclectic array of guests invited to speak over the years, Channel 4 turned to Kimmel, who used the opportunity to claim that “tyranny is booming” in the U.S. thanks to Trump, who he said “thinks he is our king.”

    > His return to airwaves he likened to an (early) “Christmas miracle,” asserting it was because people stood up to support free expression of speech. “Our show came back stronger than ever. We won, the President lost and now I’m back on the air every night giving the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking,” he said, deploying a rather British term. “That’s a word, right, I used it properly?”

    > Kimmel concluded his message, broadcast shortly after the more traditional King’s Christmas Day speech, by apologizing to the U.K. for the current state of the U.S., asserting that Americans are “not all like” Trump and urging Brits to hold out.

    > “No one knows better than you we’re always just a little bit late to the game, but do we come through in the end? Maybe. Give us about three years. Please.”

  4. Zero question. He humiliated the fuck out of our dumbfuck President. Classic Dementia Don.

  5. So much tyranny that everyone can freely talk about it. lol

  6. Fuck Jimmy Kimmel! He’s on late night because he sucks, he’s not funny and no one watches his stupid show!

  7. Not sure “we” won. Jimmy, “you” won because you got a contract extension and a raise.

    America is still screwed for the foreseeable future. I don’t think Trump cares about Kimmel when the right wing has taken over all the major news outlets and is actively stripping American rights every passing day.

    But glad you got what you wanted, Jimmy.

  9. I wish I could have seen Jimmy deliver this address, but I appreciated reading the hilarious transcript in Variety. He is truly a great American wit and incredibly brave.

  10. Anyone who treats celebrities as gods and so as they say are as crazy as trump. Don’t think for a moment Kimmel is fighting for “YOUR” rights. He got picked on, got his job back with a raise. See if average joe can do that at his job

  11. No one still watches your damn show and you get to keep your job. Maybe you win, not everyone else.

  12. I can’t be the only one who thought this was a publicity stunt right? I mean his show was losing ratings and viewers were down… then poor he’s popular again???

  13. It’s not Christmas until Jimmy Kimmel delivers his highly anticipated holiday message

  14. Yeah I don’t see how “we” won and I don’t give a fuck about how Brits feel, it would have been a better message to say that to the minorities who are currently suffering under this administration not some folks overseas who I dgaf about at this moment in history.

  15. Thank you, Jimmy Kimmel. Man of The People. Love you, Brother.

  16. I’m surprised at the comments here. Trump delivered yet another wildly inappropriate and divisive holiday tweet this morning. In the UK, King Charles urged communities to pull together in a divided time. Two very different messages from world leaders. Kimmel addressed this by contracting the president yet again and sent a message to the rest of the world that the US is a hot mess but will come around in time. I found the message inspiring; who cares if it came from a late night host?

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