“You can’t believe they gave me my job back? I can’t believe we gave you your job back.”
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On Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel Live returned to the air with a widely-praised monologue and a major ratings boost, despite his show not being picked back up by many ABC affiliate stations in cities like Seattle, Salt Lake City, and Washington D.C. But not everyone was happy to see Jimmy back on their screens.
President Donald Trump responded on Truth Social:
And to kick off his second night back on the air, Jimmy had the perfect response to Trump’s rant.
Jimmy said, “Moments after we taped our show last night, the Mad Red Hatter wrote, ‘I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back.’ You can’t believe they gave me my job back? I can’t believe we gave you your job back.”
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Responding to Trump’s claim that “The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!” Jimmy simply said, “No, they weren’t.”
Jimmy also addressed this part of Trump’s writing, “I think we’re going to test ABC out on this. Let’s see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers!”
Jimmy responded by saying, “Only Donald Trump would try to prove he wasn’t threatening ABC by threatening ABC. And you almost have to feel sorry for the people who work for him, who try to clean up the messes he made. They’ve been bending over backwards to say, ‘Oh, we never, he never threatened.’ JD Vance, today, made the claim that what the FCC chairman said was a joke, which I don’t know. Maybe that was a joke. I don’t know.”
“They go to all these lengths to say, ‘Oh, it wasn’t coercion. The President was just musing.’ And then the second Trump is alone, he sits on the toilet, he gets his grubby little thumbs on his phone, and he immediately blows their excuses to smithereens and says it was ratings that got me fired. Has anyone ever been fired for bad ratings on a Wednesday?”
Finally, Jimmy fired back at Trump’s closing line, “Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings.” He replied, “And he does know bad ratings. He has some of the worst ratings a president has ever had. So, on behalf of all of us, welcome to the crappy ratings club, Mr. President.”
People online seemed to agree with Jimmy, and they have a lot of thoughts about Trump’s post:
And people loved the way Jimmy fought back:
You can watch Jimmy’s full monologue here:
What do you think about his response to Trump’s rant? Share your thoughts in the comments!