{"id":369831,"date":"2025-12-25T19:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369831\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T19:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:09:09","slug":"dear-britain-things-are-bad-but-america-will-recover-from-donald-trump-just-give-us-three-years-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/369831\/","title":{"rendered":"Dear Britain: things are bad, but America will recover from Donald Trump. Just give us three years | Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have no idea if you know who I am, but I was asked to deliver this year\u2019s alternative Christmas message<\/a> (which I\u2019ve heard is a big deal) so I hope you do, but if not I host<\/a> what you call a chatshow (we call it a talkshow) in what you call the colonies, I think? I honestly have no idea what\u2019s going on over there.<\/p>\n

I do know what\u2019s going on over here though, and I can tell you that, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Tyranny is booming<\/a> over here.<\/p>\n

You may have read in your colourful newspapers that my country\u2019s president would like to shut me up \u2013 because I don\u2019t adore him in the way he likes to be adored. The American government made a threat against me and the company I work for, and all of a sudden we were off the air<\/a>. But then, you know what happened? A Christmas miracle happened. Well, it was September. It was a September miracle. But the holiday does seem to come earlier and earlier every year, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel delivering Channel 4\u2019s 2025 alternative Christmas message. Photograph: Channel 4\/PA<\/p>\n

Millions and millions of people stood up and said: \u201cNo, this is not acceptable.\u201d People who never watched my show, people who were on record saying they hate my show spoke out, they marched<\/a>. They did this all to support the right to a free expression of speech \u2013 and because so many people spoke out, we came back. Our show came back stronger than ever<\/a>. We won, the president lost \u2013 and now I\u2019m back on the air every night, givin\u2019 the most powerful politician on Earth a right, and richly deserved, bollocking. That\u2019s a word, right \u2013 I used it properly?<\/p>\n

And the reason I\u2019m telling you this story is because maybe you\u2019re thinking: \u201cOh a government silencing its critics is something that happens in places like Russia, or North Korea, or LA, not the UK.\u201d Well, that\u2019s what we thought, and now we\u2019ve got King Donny the Eighth calling for executions<\/a>. It happens fast.<\/p>\n

US presidential candidate Donald Trump appearing on ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live, 16 December 2015. Photograph: Randy Holmes\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s funny, we Americans are very proud of not having a king. It\u2019s kind of why we left. Earlier this year tens of millions of us marched at protests called No Kings<\/a>. You had some of those there. And just for the record we have nothing against your king. I mean I don\u2019t know if you know this, but his son lives here<\/a>. We just \u2013 well some of us \u2013 have a problem with the guy who thinks he is our king.<\/p>\n

Here in the United States right now, we are both figuratively and literally tearing down the structures of our democracy. From the free press, to science, to medicine, to judicial independence, to the actual White House itself<\/a>, we are a right mess. And we know this is also affecting you, and I just wanted to say sorry. And we want you to know or, at least I want you to know, that we\u2019re not all like him. We\u2019re not all like that.<\/p>\n

Look I know (from the musical Hamilton<\/a>) that our countries didn\u2019t start off on the greatest note, but I also know (from seeing Love Actually<\/a>) that we have a special relationship. So, if I might speak on behalf of my country \u2013 which I most certainly do not \u2013 our message to you, our friends across the pond this Christmas is: don\u2019t give up on us. We\u2019re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we\u2019ll come around. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. We even love the things about you that you don\u2019t like. Like Simon Cowell, for instance<\/a>. We are not bright. We\u2019re Americans. No one knows better than you we\u2019re always just a little bit late to the game, but do we come through in the end? Maybe. Give us about three years. Please. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for Spider-Man<\/a>. Merry Christmas, and happy holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I have no idea if you know who I am, but I was asked to deliver this year\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-369831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}