{"id":176661,"date":"2025-12-05T14:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176661\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:15:10","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-turns-his-google-trend-win-into-a-taunt-of-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176661\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Turns His Google Trend Win Into A Taunt Of Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And on Thursday, the late night comedian thanked one person in particular for the accolade: President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to say &#8230; none of this would ever have happened without the support of loyal viewers like President Trump, who has done so much this year to raise awareness of our show,\u201d Kimmel joked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Mr. President for making me No. 3 in the world,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has for years lashed out over Kimmel\u2019s stinging gags about him, calling the TV personality a \u201cbum\u201d and demanding he be removed from the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>Matters came to a head in September when Kimmel was temporarily suspended by ABC after his remarks following the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk were seized on by conservatives. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/trump-kimmel-fallon-meyers_n_68cb5ee4e4b09addd91e2597\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"cheered the news\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"693296e4e4b03cea5ab3d205\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"68cb5ee4e4b09addd91e2597\" 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=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cheered the news<\/a>, but Kimmel soon returned to the air amid growing backlash to the nixing of his show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And on Thursday, the late night comedian thanked one person in particular for the accolade: President Donald Trump.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,61,60,3484,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-176661","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-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}