When Jimmy Kimmel took a swipe at Donald Trump on live television, nobody expected the former president to let it slide. Within hours, Trump issued one of his sharpest public rebukes yet\u2014aimed directly at Kimmel, ABC, and what he called their \u201cnever-ending fake news circus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It all began after Kimmel mocked Trump\u2019s recent comments to a reporter, where Trump was heard telling them to \u201cbe quiet, piggy.\u201d<\/em> The clip went viral, and Kimmel wasted no time turning it into a punchline on his show. But Trump wasn\u2019t laughing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A source close to the former president said Trump was \u201cfurious\u201d and felt ABC was intentionally trying to humiliate him. In a message released shortly after the broadcast, Trump slammed Kimmel as \u201ca failing comedian desperately clinging to relevance\u201d and accused ABC of being \u201cnothing but a propaganda arm for the radical left.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the statement, Trump insisted he never cared about late-night comedians\u2019 opinions, but that Kimmel had crossed a line by \u201ctwisting real events into smear campaigns.\u201d He also claimed ABC was losing viewers because \u201cAmericans are tired of being force-fed lies disguised as jokes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kimmel, for his part, hasn\u2019t backed down. Sources say he is preparing an even more biting follow-up monologue, and ABC executives are reportedly bracing for another wave of political backlash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One thing is certain: the long-running feud between Trump and late-night television isn\u2019t cooling off anytime soon\u2014and this latest clash may be one of their most explosive yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When Jimmy Kimmel took a swipe at Donald Trump on live television, nobody expected the former president to let it slide. Within hours, Trump issued one of… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storyzone24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}