He’ll be back.
Jimmy Kimmel “might” be hosting the 2025 Oscars after Donald Trump said he was “a fool” and the “worst host ever” at this year’s ceremony.
Kimmel, 56, kicked off his ABC talk show by revealing he received nearly a hundred messages after he appeared to have once again agitated “our Kentucky fried former president.”
In a lengthy Truth Social media post made by the former president, Trump, 77, claimed that Kimmel “still hasn’t recovered from his horrendous performance and big ratings drop as Host of The Academy Awards.”
Kimmel said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” that his ratings had, in fact, been pretty high.
“I don’t know. That must be why they asked me to host the show again next year.” Kimmel laughed on Wednesday. “Which I wasn’t planning to do but now I might. Maybe — you know what — maybe you can watch on the TV in the rec room at Riker’s with all the guys.”
Kimmel, according to Deadline, has already been approached by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to host the ceremony slated for March 2, 2025.
The television personality also ripped Trump — who is currently facing 34 felony counts of falsifying business records — for mixing him up with Al Pacino.
Trump ranted that Kimmel screwed up the presentation of “Picture of the Year” and forgot to say the “mandatory” line — “and the winner is.”
“I was the host and the host doesn’t present awards. The presenters present the awards,” Kimmel said. “And the person who presented the award was Al Pacino. Not me. We are different people.”
Kimmel previously read a post from Trump toward the end of the star-studded show.
“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars,” Trump wrote at the time during the live broadcast, which Kimmel recited. “His opening was that of a less-than-average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC ‘talent,’ George Slopanopoulos.”
“I’m surprised you’re still [up],” Kimmel shot back on stage as he looked at the camera. “Isn’t it past your jail time?”
Kimmel’s wife and co-executive producer, Molly McNearney, tried to persuade him not to read the review at the time.
“I’m really not proud of this, but I tried to talk Jimmy out of reading that,” McNearney, 46, told Variety after the telecast.
“I feel like my instincts are usually right, but I was totally off on that,” she said. “I said, ‘Please don’t read this.’”
When Kimmel asked why, she told him: “I don’t want to give Trump airtime in the Oscars. This is the one time we don’t have to talk about him. We talk about him every night … this night is not about him and it’s not about politics.’”
According to McNearney, “the show was going well” and she didn’t want to “end it on a sour note.”
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