Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel responded sharply on Thursday after former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social demanding that ABC take him off the air.<\/p>\n
During his monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>, Kimmel mocked Trump\u2019s approval ratings and joked that he\u2019ll leave his show the same day Trump leaves office. \u201cHow about this: I\u2019ll go when you go, OK?\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cWe\u2019ll be a team. We\u2019ll ride off into the sunset together like Butch Cassidy and the Suntan Kid.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump had posted just after midnight, accusing Kimmel of bias, calling him talentless, and insisting ABC should fire him. Kimmel noted that Trump wrote the message only minutes after the show ended on the East Coast, joking that Trump watches him live every night. \u201cHi, Mr. President,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s viewers like you who keep us on the air.\u201d<\/p>\n Kimmel also used the moment to swipe at Trump\u2019s current controversies, calling them \u201cthe biggest sex scandal in the history of the American presidency.\u201d He mocked Trump\u2019s habit of accusing others of bad ratings and played clips from news outlets covering Trump\u2019s own low approval numbers.<\/p>\n Kimmel said Trump has tried to get him fired countless times and compared the former president\u2019s repeated threats to a neighbor who harasses you so often that you\u2019d get a restraining order. He reminded viewers that Trump also pushed for his removal back in September when Kimmel faced backlash over comments about a murder case tied to a conservative activist.<\/p>\n The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel responded sharply on Thursday after former President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social demanding that ABC\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":96389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,4463],"class_list":["post-96388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-jimmy-kimmel"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}