Donald Trump tried to pick a fight with Jimmy Kimmel again and the late night host destroyed him again.
Jimmy Kimmel said: “By the way, I was at a musical recital of any niece and nephew when I got this video. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Donald Trump has said so many times that I have no talent, Eric is starting to get jealous. What he doesn’t understand is that I adore him. I love that this bothered him so much. I love that Fox chose a reporter no one knows to interview him. And I especially like when he tries to turn the fact that everyone was laughing at him into a positive.
Kimmel played a clip of Trump saying in a Fox News interview over the weekend:
Now look, look. Jimmy Kimmel beats me every night. His ratings are terrible. He is not a talented guy. I heard that he beats me all the time. So I thought about hitting him, because I thought he was a terrible host.
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And he probably had to act stupidly in a short period of time, right? She had minutes, because she’s on the air. He sees this thing and he wants to go out there and he wants to, I guess, confront me. And ends up reading my truth. I said this guy is even dumber than I thought. The thing went viral. He had now traveled around the world and all he had to do was keep his mouth shut.
Kimmel responded: “Yes, yes. By the way, you forget why it went viral all over the world.
The late night host played a clip of his own, You Don’t Go to Jail Joke and continued:
Barbie was laughing at you. Not only were they laughing at you on Oscar Sunday, now there are dozens of T-shirts that say “Do Your Time in Prison”! On sale. There are cups. There are tank tops. Is there a “No Time in Prison” backpack? People write this outside the Trump Hotel. There are billboards. There are billboards in Pennsylvania and Florida, and there will be many more to come.
But if only I had kept my mouth shut. Imagine telling someone they should have kept their mouth shut? It should be on his tombstone. She should have kept her mouth shut. Hey, maybe you know something? Maybe you’re right about me being stupid. We should take one of those cognitive tests or an IQ test together. Or maybe we should sit down together for a long game of Scrabble and find out who has a bigger brain. I would like. But I understood. He’s hurt and he’s lashing out…
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Trump never learns. He knows he was humiliated in front of a global audience at the Oscars, so he’s trying to turn it into a positive thing for himself. Trump became the butt of the joke. He didn’t go viral for a good reason. Anyone else would have been embarrassed, but Donald Trump believes he can turn it into a positive.
Donald Trump needs to stop trying to pick a fight with Jimmy Kimmel because the end result is just further humiliation.
and they move or pack their bags and put an end to this investigation.
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