Donald Trump took a break from preparing for his ongoing hush money trial to rant about the “horrendous” job Jimmy Kimmel did hosting this year’s Oscars ceremony.
In a post shared on TruthSocial Wednesday (April 17) – well over a month after the Oscars were held – the former US president wrote, “Stupid Jimmy Kimmel, who still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards, especially when he showed he suffered from TDS, commonly known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, to the entire World by reading on air my TRUTH about how bad a job he was doing that night.”
Trump is referencing the moment when Kimmel read one of his social media posts criticizing him right on the Oscars stage, to which the late night host fired back, “Isn’t it past your jail time?”
The rest of Trump’s social media rant went in an even weirder direction as he began to criticize Kimmel for how the Best Picture award was presented, despite the fact that it was Al Pacino, not Kimmel, who presented that category.
“He stumbled through announcing the biggest award of all, ‘Picture of the Year,’” Trump wrote of Kimmel. “It was a CLASSIC CHOKE, one of the biggest ever in show business, and to top it off, he forgot to say the famous and mandatory line, ‘AND THE WINNER IS.’ Instead he stammered around as he opened the envelope.”
The rant continued, “Supposedly his wife, and even management, begged him not to do it, ‘DON’T READ HIS TRUTH, JIMMY, PLEASE DON’T DO THIS,’ they said. He was made to look like a FOOL, which he is, and at the same time go down in Television History as the WORST HOST EVER OF THE ONCE VAUNTED ACADEMY AWARDS!”
Kimmel, who regularly takes aim at the former POTUS on his late night talk show, has previously gloated about the fact that Trump was “still stewing about a joke I made about him at the Oscars.”
“But what he doesn’t realize is that I love this,” Kimmel said during a March broadcast of his show. “I love that this bothered him so much, … and I especially love when he tries to spin the fact that everyone was laughing at him into a positive.”
Now that Trump’s hush money trial is underway, their feud will surely continue.
After all, there is little more that Kimmel likes to rant about in his nightly monologues than Trump’s activities.
