{"id":465049,"date":"2026-06-07T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465049\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T07:07:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T07:07:17","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-mocks-trump-for-finding-time-for-knicks-game-but-missing-sons-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/465049\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump for finding time for Knicks game but missing son\u2019s wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump says he will &#8216;try&#8217; to make his son, Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s, wedding but &#8216;it&#8217;s not good timing for me&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jimmy-kimmel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> joked about Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a>&#8216;s announced intention to attend an NBA Finals game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Knicks<\/a> and San Antonio Spurs. <\/p>\n<p>Kimmel quipped that Trump would want to overturn the game&#8217;s results and suggested he&#8217;d root for the Spurs, referencing a past controversy. <\/p>\n<p>The late-night host also recently criticized Trump for not attending his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/son\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">son<\/a> Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/wedding\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wedding<\/a> to Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas. <\/p>\n<p>Trump stated that &#8220;circumstances pertaining to Government&#8221; prevented his attendance, which Kimmel sarcastically linked to his &#8220;love for the United States of America&#8221; and even Jeffrey Epstein. <\/p>\n<p>Kimmel noted that Trump Jr. and his wife plan a White House celebration, expressing hope that Trump would attend that event. <\/p>\n<p>In full<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump says he will &#8216;try&#8217; to make his son, Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s, wedding but &#8216;it&#8217;s not good timing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-465049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465049","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=465049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}