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- Jimmy Kimmel says he was told backstage not to read Trump’s review of his Oscars performance.
- Obviously, Kimmel did it anyway.
- Trump made the publication on his own social network, Truth Social.
Jimmy Kimmel apparently went against the advice of Oscar producers when he decided to occupy some of his free time reading President Donald Trump’s review of his performance.
“They told me we had like an extra minute, and I’m really proud of something and I was wondering if I could share it with you. I just got a review, and um…” Kimmel said during the previous ceremony. proceeding to read an excerpt from Trump’s review of his performance from a cell phone.
In a social truth mail, Trump criticized Kimmel’s performance and questioned whether there had ever been a “WORST PRESENTER” in the history of the awards ceremony. He also denounced the show as “a really bad politically correct show.”
in a post-show interview With Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Kimmel said he read the post against the advice of those backstage.
“They’re like, ‘You have a little time.’ I was like, ‘I’m reading Trump’s tweet,'” Kimmel said, referring to Trump’s post.
“‘They told me, ‘No, no, don’t read that,'” he continued. “‘Yes I am!'”
Oscar representatives did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Truth Social is Trump’s social platform, launched after he was permanently suspended from to violence”. After Elon Musk took over the company, Trump’s account was reinstated, but the only public post on his account since its reinstatement is his mugshot from August 2023.
The front-runner for the 2024 presidential election has historically been a prolific cartel, but it doesn’t have the same reach it had in the past. Axios found in December 2023 that Trump’s social reach was much lower on Truth Social than on Twitter before his 2021 ban and that his engagement on Truth was falling.
Truth Social, like Daily Beast reported, crashed Thursday as Trump released President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. The platform hasn’t fared well financially either: a November 2023 SEC filing revealed that the The platform had lost almost 23 million dollars. in the first half of 2023, compared to a profit of nearly $29 million during that same period in 2022. And in April 2022, the president reported in a financial disclosure form that had earned less than $201 on Truth Social.
After reading his review, Kimmel responded to Trump, tapping into the self-deprecating humor with a swipe at the former president, who faces multiple criminal charges.
“Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still… haven’t you spent your time in jail?” Kimmel said to laughter from the audience.