‘I’ll Go When You Go,’ Jimmy Kimmel Tells President ‘Piggy’
Jimmy Kimmel responded to Donald Trump’s latest call to fire him by offering the former Apprentice host a deal. “How about this: I’ll go when you go, okay?” Kimmel said during the November 20 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! “Let’s ride off into the sunset together like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. And until then, if I may borrow a phrase from you … Quiet, piggy.” Kimmel opened his monologue by acknowledging that he’d seen the president’s recent tirade about him on Truth Social, which came after Kimmel had spent much of the previous night’s monologue criticizing Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
“Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air?” Trump wrote. “Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it? Also, totally biased coverage. Get the bum off the air!!!” Kimmel pointed out that the post was shared at 12:49 a.m ET — just 11 minutes after Jimmy Kimmel Live! finishes airing — and suggested that Trump has been tuning in live from the White House. “Hi, Mr. President. Thanks for watching us on TV instead of on YouTube,” Kimmel said, waving at the camera. “It’s viewers like you who keep us on the air, ironically.”
Kimmel accused Trump of previously trying to get him fired in September, referencing the week when Jimmy Kimmel Live! was temporarily pulled off air following pressure from ABC’s affiliates and criticism from Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr over Kimmel’s speculation about Charlie Kirk’s killer. Amid allegations of government censorship, Trump publicly congratulated ABC on September 17; after Kimmel came back on September 23, the president threatened to sue the network. The host said he has “lost count” of how many times the “snowflake” in the White House has demanded that Jimmy Kimmel Live! be pulled off air, and then used a news montage to argue that Trump is the actual expert in bad (approval) ratings.
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