Trump Launches New Attack On Jimmy Kimmel With Bonkers Question | EUROtoday

Donald Trump on Monday attacked late-night hosts, together with Jimmy Kimmel, then requested a query that had critics questioning if the previous president is aware of what decade it’s.

“Where’s Johnny Carson?” Trump requested at a Pennsylvania occasion as he railed towards the present crop of late-night discuss present hosts on community TV. “Bring back Johnny.”

Carson hosted “The Tonight Show” for 30 years, and his title grew to become synonymous with the format. But he left the general public eye nearly fully after he retired in 1992. He died in 2005. Jay Leno after which Conan O’Brien had been hosts of the present after Carson retired and earlier than Jimmy Fallon took over in 2014.

Trump attacked Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Fallon, though he didn’t point out them by title.

“These three guys, they’re so bad, all three of ’em, all three of ’em” he mentioned.

Trump recalled his personal 2016 look on “The Tonight Show,” when Fallon mussed up his hair. Trump on Monday attacked Fallon as “weak and pathetic” for later apologizing for the second, which critics mentioned had served to humanize Trump.

But Trump saved his harshest phrases for Kimmel, host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” with whom he has been feuding for ages and tried to have censored throughout his presidential administration. Trump is seemingly nonetheless smarting from an unplanned second in the course of the Oscars earlier this yr, which Kimmel hosted.

During the ceremony, Trump ripped into Kimmel through a submit on his Truth Social web site. Kimmel then learn that message dwell in the course of the broadcast and joked that he was shocked Trump was nonetheless watching.

“Isn’t it past your jail time?” Kimmel cracked, getting one of many largest reactions of the evening and resulting in some of the viral moments of the Oscars.

But Trump on Monday tried to rewrite historical past by altering Kimmel’s punchline.

“I think he said something like, ‘ha ha ha, he thinks he bothers me,’ or some crap like that,” Trump mentioned.

Trump then attacked all three community hosts once more.

“It’s supposed to be comedy,” he mentioned. “It’s hatred.”

Critics had been fast to remind the previous president that ― even a long time in the past ― Carson additionally mocked Trump, together with this second:

Still others provided a solution to Trump’s query questioning the place Carson is: