{"id":177749,"date":"2025-12-10T19:46:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177749\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T19:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T19:46:06","slug":"david-letterman-takes-swipe-at-donald-trump-during","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/177749\/","title":{"rendered":"David Letterman takes swipe at Donald Trump during\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/david-letterman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">David Letterman<\/a> took a dig at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Donald Trump<\/a> during his appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jimmy-kimmel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live! on Tuesday (9 December).<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday (9 December), the television host, 78, called the US president a \u201cfool\u201d, adding that he \u201cshould expect and examine every bit of ridicule he receives\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He also praised Kimmel as the \u201cleader of the resistance\u201d, to which Kimmel disagreed, branding himself as \u201ctotally ineffective\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In September, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/tv\/culture\/what-did-jimmy-kimmel-say-charlie-kirk-video-b2832547.html\" title=\"Jimmy Kimmel fights back tears during emotional monologue as he returns to live show\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kimmel\u2019s show was temporarily taken off the air<\/a> after the host\u2019s comments about the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Letterman took a dig at Donald Trump during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday (9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[251,430,784,156,788,782,111,43,785,783,786,139,69,787,255],"class_list":["post-177749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrities","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-inkl","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}