{"id":314278,"date":"2026-02-24T06:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314278\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:44:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-responds-to-trump-fundraiser-email-that-named-abc-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314278\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Responds to Trump Fundraiser Email That Named ABC Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After taking a week off opposite the Winter Olympics, <a href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>  had a lot of catching up to do with his Monday night monologue\u2014and he started off by responding to a <a href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> insult that, he quipped, \u201chit me personally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the break, a fundraising email, from one of his many money grabs, was sent to a number of followers,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/latenighter.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a> host explained. \u201cThe subject line was, \u2018DJT: Get Trump Out of Your Mouth!\u2019\u2014which somehow is not a line from the Trump-Epstein files.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/politicalemails.org\/messages\/2139331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">that February 19 email<\/a>, President Donald Trump called ABC\u2019s late night host a \u201cratings-starved hack,\u201d and told supporters that Kimmel\u2019s jokes an attack on \u201cYOU and our movement.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel proceeded to read the email in full, including a part where Trump wrote, \u201cHe thinks he can sit in his Hollywood studio and laugh at the greatest political movement in the history of our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel paused to remark, \u201cYeah! Sometimes I stand, something I sit and laugh, but\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s fundraising pitch also said, \u201c[Kimmel] thinks his tired jokes can stop us. HE IS WRONG! While he\u2019s busy reading a teleprompter for a tiny audience of coastal elites, I\u2019m getting ready to address a massive crowd of MAGA PATRIOTS at the State of the Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There, Kimmel paused to note that \u201cwe will have a special show [Tuesday] night,\u201d taping later than usual, \u201cto laugh at all the stupid things he says at that MAGA State of the Union. But I digress\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s email went on to promise, \u201cJoin my MAGA Rally Blitz now and I\u2019ll add you to my exclusive 2026 MAGA Membership!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A MAGA Rally Blitz? \u201cWhat even is that?\u201d marveled Kimmel. \u201cIt\u2019s like something you\u2019d order at Dairy Queen, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel finished reading off the email, then got to the big question stemming from its very existence:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy is the president,  in his second term, even sending fundraising emails?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel quickly posited that given last week\u2019s damning Supreme Court ruling against Trump, \u201cMaybe he needs it to pay all the big, beautiful tariffs he has to give back now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watch that segment of Kimmel\u2019s monologue, cued up above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After taking a week off opposite the Winter Olympics, Jimmy Kimmel had a lot of catching up to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,61,60,3484,3488,282],"class_list":["post-314278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314278","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=314278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}