“Isn’t it past your jail time?” Kimmel asked former President Donald Trump after reading a Truth Social post in which Trump criticized his performance at the Oscars on Sunday night.
A triggered Jimmy Kimmel reads President Trump’s Truth post live at the Oscars. Then jokes about him going to jail. The Hollywood audience claps like seals. pic.twitter.com/mvOeVSjnTL
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) March 11, 2024
In his own words — delivered with the cadence of a joke but undeniably sincere — Kimmel was starved for attention and figured the best way to put himself back under the spotlight was to cheer on the Democrats’ attempts at bankrupting and imprisoning their political opponents.
And there it is. Jimmy Kimmel took an otherwise enjoyable Oscars and micturated all over it by cheering on Democrat attempts to imprison and bankrupt political opponents. So so so so lame.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) March 11, 2024
The unfortunate thing is that up until then, the 96th Academy Awards had been pleasant and generally inoffensive. There was very little grandstanding by awardees, movies and actors people actually care about won, and the event featured live performances and cameos that normal people would enjoy.
John Mulaney: “Without sound, we wouldn’t have been able to hear such classic lines as ‘You’re gonna need a bigger boat,’ ‘I’ll have what she’s having’ and ‘He was in the Amazon with my mother when she was researching spiders just before she died.'” https://t.co/UNgGySGz3r pic.twitter.com/WLFpHIWU85
— Variety (@Variety) March 11, 2024
