{"id":516248,"date":"2026-06-03T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/516248\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:29:11","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-hits-back-after-trumps-latest-late-night-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/516248\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Hits Back After Trump&#8217;s Latest Late-Night Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Donald Trump\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a1fa9a3e4b032392fa72e83\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> lashed out at late-night TV hosts yet again \u2015 but his choice of words left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/jimmy-kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Jimmy Kimmel\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a1fa9a3e4b032392fa72e83\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/entertainment\/topic\/jimmy-kimmel\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> more than a little puzzled. <\/p>\n<p>Trump on Monday took a victory lap <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116677916960939162\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"in a Truth Social post\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a1fa9a3e4b032392fa72e83\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116677916960939162\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in a Truth Social post<\/a> bragging that he\u2019d \u201ctaken out\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/republican-party\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Republicans<\/a> who were critical of him in primary elections, as well as \u201cREALLY DUMB\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Stephen Colbert\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a1fa9a3e4b032392fa72e83\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/entertainment\/topic\/stephen-colbert\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Stephen Colbert<\/a>, whose show was canceled by CBS. Trump also said he had \u201cthree more limping Late Night Talk Show Hosts\u201d to go, with Kimmel \u2015 who he has frequently attacked \u2015 presumably one of them. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLimping late-night talk show hosts?\u201d Kimmel asked. \u201cI\u2019m not sure I\u2019d be calling us limping when you got cankles like this, honey.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Kimmel broke out the photo evidence: <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at that. It\u2019s like they put a shoe on a balloon animal made out of sausage links,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cShouldn\u2019t the president of the United States have more important things to focus on \u2015 like finding a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/2-performers-already-dropped-out-of-trump-backed-america-250-concert_n_6a184c55e4b0ddcc846883ae\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"replacement\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a1fa9a3e4b032392fa72e83\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"6a184c55e4b0ddcc846883ae\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">replacement<\/a> for Milli Vanilli at his Coachella From Hella?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>See more in his Tuesday night monologue: <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump lashed out at late-night TV hosts yet again \u2015 but his choice of words left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[265],"tags":[356,18,117,19,17,7613,4951,128],"class_list":["post-516248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-stephen-colbert","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116685476361935202","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516248","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=516248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}