{"id":251295,"date":"2025-12-25T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/251295\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:14:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:14:09","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-jokes-about-fascism-in-an-alternative-christmas-message-for-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/251295\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel jokes about fascism in an ‘alternative Christmas message’ for Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

LONDON (AP) \u2014 Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump as he warned Thursday about the rise of fascism in an address to U.K. viewers dubbed \u201cThe Alternative Christmas Message.\u201d<\/p>\n

The message, aired on Channel 4 on Christmas day, reflected on the impact from the second term in office for Trump, who Kimmel said acts like he\u2019s a king. <\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year,\u201d he said. \u201cTyranny is booming over here.\u201d<\/p>\n

The channel began a tradition of airing an alternative Christmas message in 1993, as a counterpart to the British monarch\u2019s annual televised address<\/a> to the nation. Channel 4 said the message is often a thought-provoking and personal reflection pertinent to the events of the year.<\/p>\n

The comedian has skewered Trump since returning to the air after ABC indefinitely suspended the \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d show<\/a> in September following criticism of comments the host made over the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Kimmel made remarks in reference to the reaction to Kirk\u2019s shooting<\/a> suggesting that many Trump supporters were trying to capitalize on the death.<\/p>\n

Trump celebrated the suspension<\/a> of the veteran late-night comic and his frequent critic, calling it \u201cgreat news for America.\u201d He also called for other late night hosts to be fired. <\/p>\n

The incident, one of Trump\u2019s many disputes and legal battles waged with the media, drew widespread concerns about freedom of speech and freedom of the press. <\/p>\n

Hundreds of leading Hollywood stars and others in the entertainment industry urged Americans to \u201cfight to defend and preserve our constitutionally protected rights.\u201d The show returned to the air less than a week later. <\/p>\n

Kimmel told the U.K. audience that a Christmas miracle had happened in September when millions of people \u2014 some who hated his show \u2014 had spoken up for free speech. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe won, the president lost, and now I\u2019m back on the air every night giving the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Channel 4 previously invited whistle-blower Edward Snowden and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to deliver the alternative Christmas message.<\/p>\n

Kimmel, who said he didn\u2019t expect Brits to know who he was, warned that silencing critics is not just something that happens in Russia or North Korea. <\/p>\n

Despite the split that led to the American Revolution 250 years ago, he said the two nations still shared a special relationship and urged the U.K. not to give up on the U.S. as it was \u201cgoing through a bit of a wobble right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHere in the United States right now, we are both figuratively and literally tearing down the structures of our democracy from the free press to science to medicine to judicial independence to the actual White House itself<\/a>,\u201d Kimmel said, in reference to demolition of the building\u2019s East Wing. \u201cWe are a right mess, and we know this is also affecting you, and I just wanted to say sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump as he warned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[105954,41120,16838,356,130557,18,117,3334,19,17,7613,130556,790,128,393,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-251295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-assassination-of-charlie-kirk","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-christmas","11":"tag-donald-trump","12":"tag-edward-snowden","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-general-news","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","19":"tag-mahmoud-ahmadinejad","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-tv","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}