{"id":180384,"date":"2025-12-08T03:38:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180384\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T03:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T03:38:10","slug":"if-i-cant-beat-him-then-i-shouldnt-be-trump-mocks-jimmy-kimmel-calls-him-horrible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/180384\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;If I can&#8217;t beat him then I shouldn&#8217;t be &#8230; &#8216;: Trump mocks Jimmy Kimmel; calls him &#8216;horrible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/trump-and-jimmy-kimmel.jpg\" alt=\"'If I can't beat him then I shouldn't be ... ': Trump mocks Jimmy Kimmel; calls him 'horrible'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> US President <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> on Saturday mocked late-night talk show host <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/jimmy-kimmel\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> and called him &#8220;horrible&#8221; while presenting the 2025 Kennedy Center Honours honourees with their medals at the Oval Office.\u201cWe have never had a president hosting the awards before. This is the first,\u201d Trump said while addressing reporters, as per Deadline. \u201cI\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. No, we\u2019ll do fine.\u201dHe then compared himself with previous hosts, saying, \u201cI watched some of the people that host. Jimmy Kimmel was horrible, and 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.\u201dTrump, who appointed himself chairman of the Kennedy Center in February, said in August that he was \u201cabout 98 percent involved\u201d in selecting the honourees. This year\u2019s recipients are <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/sylvester-stallone\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvester Stallone<\/a>, George Strait, KISS, Gloria Gaynor and Michael Crawford. The remarks came amid an ongoing feud between Trump and Kimmel, which escalated when Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended for six days in September over comments the host made following Charlie Kirk\u2019s death. During a visit to the United Kingdom, Trump said Kimmel was \u201cfired for lack of talent.\u201dLast month, on Truth Social, he called the host a \u201cman with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS\u201d and wrote, \u201cGet the bum off the air!!!\u201dKimmel later addressed the post, saying that his wife told him about Trump\u2019s social media message when he woke up. \u201cI\u2019m the bum. I\u2019m the bum. And he posted this, I think this is interesting, at 12:49 a.m., 11 minutes after the show ended on the East Coast, which is nice,\u201d he teased.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump on Saturday mocked late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel and called him &#8220;horrible&#8221; while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,85099,61,60,3484,98167,56493,6883,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-180384","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-george-strait","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-kennedy-center-honours-2025","15":"tag-oval-office","16":"tag-sylvester-stallone","17":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180384","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=180384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}