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Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump after beating him in popularity poll<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel joked on \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live\u2019 that he’s now “more popular” than US President Donald Trump, citing a new YouGov poll.<\/p>\n

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Jimmy Kimmel’s<\/a> wife is opening up about her “lost” relationships with some family members over their support of President Donald Trump.<\/a><\/p>\n

Molly McNearney, 47, said on the “We Can Do Hard Things”<\/a>\u00a0podcast that navigating her relationships with conservative family members, especially as Kimmel<\/a> became the target of Trump’s attack<\/a>, has “definitely been challenging.”<\/p>\n

McNearney, who works as a producer and writer on her husband’s late-night show<\/a>, said she came of age “in a very conservative, Republican” household, so when Trump was first elected in 2016, though she herself was disappointed, she felt she could “understand it.”<\/p>\n

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ episode postponed after ‘personal matter’<\/a><\/p>\n

As for Trump’s second term, McNearney is feeling less open-minded.<\/p>\n

“It hurts me so much because of the personal relationship I now have where my husband is out there fighting this man,” McNearney said on the Nov. 6 episode about some family members’ continued support of Trump.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, the head of the Trump Administration’s Federal Communications Commission criticized Kimmel for his response to the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk<\/a>. The aftermath proved a political toppling of dominoes<\/a>, ultimately leading to local broadcast companies<\/a> pulling Kimmel’s show from their lineups<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disney, the parent company of ABC, which airs the program, then indefinitely suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” \u2013 a move Trump himself applauded. Kimmel was later restored to air<\/a> and apologized for the way in which his comments, which seemed to imply Kirk’s killer was conservative, may have been misconstrued.<\/p>\n

“To me, them voting for Trump is them not voting for my husband and me and our family,” she added, revealing that she had “unfortunately \u2026 lost relationships with people in my family because of it.”<\/p>\n

Since Kimmel’s show returned to air, the late-night host has continued to taunt Trump and criticize the president’s political agenda.<\/p>\n

“I feel like I’m kind of in constant conflict and I’m angry all the time, which isn’t healthy at all,” McNearney continued. “But I personalize everything now. When I see these terrible stories every day, I’m immediately mad at certain aunts, uncles, cousins who put him in power. And it’s really hard.<\/p>\n

“I’ve sent many emails to family, like right before the election saying, ‘I’m begging you. Here’s the 10 reasons not to vote for this guy. Please don’t.’ And I either got ignored by 90% of them or got truly insane responses from a few. It’s definitely caused a strain,” she said, later in the podcast.<\/p>\n

“I’ve definitely pulled in closer with the family that I feel more aligned with. And I hate that this has happened, you know? It feels silly. You know, part of me goes, ‘Don’t let politics get in the way.’ But to me, this isn’t politics. It’s truly values,” she explained. “And we just were not aligned anymore.”<\/p>\n

Kimmel and McNearney wed in 2013, and the pair share two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump after beating him in popularity poll Jimmy Kimmel joked on \u2018Jimmy Kimmel Live\u2019 that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[565,437,66031,458,890,7567,10119,6897,54,146,8647,66033,85,46,10727,4176,4177,10728,10729,2400,3886,2318,564,753,790,43,3880,3879,420,801,11852,238,6673,13819,13820,557,3885,1943,3878,38,627,411,6678,424],"class_list":{"0":"post-125880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-affiliate","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-branch","11":"tag-celebrities","12":"tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","13":"tag-charlie","14":"tag-charlie-kirk","15":"tag-donald","16":"tag-donald-trump","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-executive","19":"tag-executive-branch","20":"tag-il","21":"tag-israel","22":"tag-jimmy","23":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","24":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","25":"tag-kimmel","26":"tag-kirk","27":"tag-life","28":"tag-life-now","29":"tag-live","30":"tag-local","31":"tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","32":"tag-negative","33":"tag-news","34":"tag-now","35":"tag-optimized","36":"tag-overall","37":"tag-overall-negative","38":"tag-party","39":"tag-politics","40":"tag-programs","41":"tag-republican","42":"tag-republican-party","43":"tag-seo","44":"tag-seo-team-optimized","45":"tag-shows","46":"tag-team","47":"tag-top-stories","48":"tag-trump","49":"tag-tv","50":"tag-tv-shows-u0026-programs","51":"tag-u0026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}