Jimmy Kimmel gives a line-by-line response to Trump's Truth Social rant about him

The host had some corrections to make.
By Sam Haysom  on 
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The Oscars was quite a while ago now, but it seems as though a certain former president still hasn't forgotten about it.

On Wednesday Donald Trump took to Truth Social to share an angry diatribe about Jimmy Kimmel's Oscars joke about him, during which he called Kimmel "stupid" and a "fool" and made fun of his "big ratings drop".

"That's weird, because I read in the news that the ratings went up this year," says Kimmel in the clip above (he's right), before diving into Trump's post line-by-line.

The core of what Trump had to say focussed on Kimmel apparently flubbing his announcement of Best Picture, something Trump referred to as a "CLASSIC CHOKE" — but, as Kimmel points out, there was a small problem.

"I didn't present the award for Best Picture," laughs Kimmel. "I was the host, the host doesn't present awards, the presenters present the awards, and the person who presented the award was Al Pacino, not me. We are different people."

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Sam Haysom

Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.


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