{"id":431281,"date":"2025-12-07T15:59:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431281\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T15:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:59:17","slug":"trump-swipes-at-jimmy-kimmel-while-honoring-kennedy-center-receipients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/431281\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump swipes at Jimmy Kimmel while honoring Kennedy Center receipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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President Donald Trump<\/a> once again swiped at late-night host Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> on Saturday as he honored the Kennedy Center honors recipients in the Oval Office on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll give me great reviews, right? You know? They\u2019ll say, ‘He was horrible, he was terrible. It was a horrible situation,'” Trump told reporters on Saturday ahead of the Sunday gala, which Trump is set to host. “No, I think we\u2019ll do fine. I\u2019ve watched some of the people that host. Jimmy Kimmel was horrible. Some of these people, if I can\u2019t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don\u2019t think I should be president.”<\/p>\n

Kimmel’s show was briefly suspended<\/a> by ABC and parent company Disney in September after his remarks suggesting the suspected killer of Charlie Kirk was part of the MAGA crowd, although Kimmel said he was misinterpreted.<\/p>\n

According to the Kennedy Center, the Kennedy Center Honors<\/a> has raised a record $23 million for its 48th annual celebration. It marks the largest fundraising haul in the history of the Honors, which was launched in 1978 as the institution\u2019s highest recognition of lifetime artistic achievement. Among this year’s recipients are Sylvester Stallone, Gloria Gaynor and the rock band Kiss.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0President Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel are sharp mutual antagonists. (Michael Regan – FIFA\/FIFA via Getty Images; \u00a0Matt Winkelmeyer\/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

JIMMY KIMMEL SAYS CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN ‘CO-OPTED AND PERVERTED’ WHILE CRITICIZING TRUMP IMMIGRATION POLICY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

While Kennedy Center honorees have visited the Oval Office privately in past years, Trump on Saturday hosted the first official, on-camera ceremony recognizing the recipients there, introducing each honoree ahead of Sunday night\u2019s gala.<\/p>\n

Kimmel has never officially hosted the Kennedy Center Honors, though he appeared<\/a> at the honors during a tribute to fellow late-night host David Letterman in 2012. Kimmel has previously hosted the Academy Awards<\/a> and the Emmys.<\/p>\n

The liberal late-night host called out<\/a> the president during his monologue on Thursday for making him one of the top trending people on Google, joking it was thanks to Trump’s constant attention.<\/p>\n

\"President <\/p>\n

The White House X page posted a photo of President Donald Trump at the Resolute Desk with the Kennedy Center Honorees. (@WhiteHouse via X)<\/p>\n

TRUMP CALLS ABC’S JIMMY KIMMEL SUPPORT ‘MAJOR ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION’ TO DEMOCRATS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“None of this would\u2019ve ever happened without the support of loyal viewers like President Trump, who has done so much this year to raise awareness for our show,” he said. Kimmel noted he was ranked third behind musician “d4vd” and rapper Kendrick Lamar, who took the first and second spots, respectively.<\/p>\n

Kimmel added, “Thank you, Mr. President, for making me number three in the world.”<\/p>\n

\"Jimmy <\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel during his show on September 23, 2025.\u00a0 (Randy Holmes\/Disney via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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The late-night host mocked Trump for the attention, noting that the president has repeatedly criticized him on social media this year \u2014 calling Kimmel “untalented” and demanding that he be taken off the air.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Gabriel Hays and Ashley Hume contributed to this report.<\/p>\n

Hanna Panreck is an associate editor at Fox News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump once again swiped at late-night host Jimmy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":431282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[69,171,68246,11171,31760,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-431281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-fox-news-media","11":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","12":"tag-kennedy-center","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115679119728396635","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}