{"id":76924,"date":"2025-08-12T10:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76924\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T10:17:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-reveals-he-got-italian-citizenship-hints-at-moving-to-europe-over-trumps-second-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/76924\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel reveals he got Italian citizenship, hints at moving to Europe over Trump&#8217;s second term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel has revealed he got Italian citizenship, hinting at a possible move to Europe because he\u2019s scared of President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The talk show host, 57, lamented the commander in chief just days after Trump said he and his fellow late-night host, Jimmy Fallon, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/07\/media\/trump-repeats-claim-kimmel-fallon-are-next-after-stephen-colbert-cancellation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would be next to lose their jobs<\/a> following the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/17\/entertainment\/late-show-with-stephen-colbert-canceled-by-cbs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cancellation of Stephen Colbert\u2019s CBS format<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do have\u2026 I did get Italian citizenship. I do have that,\u201d Kimmel said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DqtdXvOGcKY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the \u201cSarah Silverman podcast,\u201d<\/a> admitting he\u2019s very much considering leaving the US for good.<\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Kimmel has hinted at a possible move to Europe after revealing he\u2019s now an Italian citizen. Sarah Silverman \/ YouTube<\/p>\n<p>Silverman pointed out that some of Trump\u2019s fiercest critics have since packed their bags and fled the country \u2014 something Kimmel admitted he\u2019s considering doing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s going on is\u2026 as bad as you thought it was gonna be, it\u2019s so much worse. It\u2019s just unbelievable. I feel like it\u2019s probably even worse than [Trump] would like it to be,\u201d Kimmel responded.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel added that he had no hard feelings toward former MAGA supporters who are now doing a 180 on their political stance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of people\u2026 now you see these clips of Joe Rogan saying, \u2018Why\u2019s he doing this? He shouldn\u2019t be deporting people.\u2019 People go, \u2018F\u2013k you, you supported him.\u2019 I don\u2019t buy into that. I don\u2019t believe \u2018F\u2013k you, you supported him,&#8217;\u201d he said, referring to the podcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/07\/03\/media\/joe-rogan-said-ice-roundups-of-illegal-immigrant-workers-are-insane\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speaking out against Trump\u2019s deportation policy<\/a> after <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/04\/us-news\/joe-rogan-announces-endorsement-of-trump-while-promoting-elon-musk-interview-on-x\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">having supported the commander in chief<\/a> in previous elections.<\/p>\n<p>The talk show host, 57, lamented President Trump\u2019s second term in office, saying he\u2019s very much considering leaving the US for good. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel added that he had no hard feelings toward former MAGA supporters who are now doing a 180 on their political stance. @jimmykimmel\/Instagram<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the door needs to stay open. If you want to change your mind, that\u2019s so hard to do. If you want to admit you were wrong, that\u2019s so hard and so rare to do. You are welcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel\u2019s podcast appearance comes just days after Trump doubled down on his claim that the comedian will be losing his job next.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>As rumors began to swirl about Howard Stern\u2019s Sirius XM radio show <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/09\/entertainment\/howard-stern-staffers-prepping-for-shows-demise-withholding-best-material-as-future-uncertain\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reportedly getting the boot<\/a>, the POTUS had some choice words for the current world of late-night TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, it hasn\u2019t worked,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd it hasn\u2019t worked, really, for a long time, and I would say pretty much from the beginning. Colbert has no talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel\u2019s podcast appearance comes just days after Trump doubled down on his claim that the comedian will be losing his job next. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel has served as the host of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d since 2003. Disney via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, I could take anybody here. I could go outside in the beautiful streets and pick a couple of people that do just as well or better. They\u2019d get higher ratings than he did. He\u2019s got no talent,\u201d he went on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFallon has no talent. Kimmel has no talent. They\u2019re next. They\u2019re going to be going. I hear they\u2019re going to be going. I don\u2019t know, but I would imagine because they\u2019d get \u2014 you know, Colbert has better ratings than Kimmel or Fallon.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel has revealed he got Italian citizenship, hinting at a possible move to Europe because he\u2019s scared&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[12,88,18040,17114,11575,13728,10815,2294,54482,10674,38975,31445,3479,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-76924","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jimmy-fallon","11":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","12":"tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","13":"tag-late-show-with-stephen-colbert","14":"tag-media","15":"tag-podcasts","16":"tag-sarah-silverman","17":"tag-stephen-colbert","18":"tag-talk-show","19":"tag-talk-shows","20":"tag-trump","21":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76924","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=76924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}