{"id":1724048,"date":"2022-11-03T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724048"},"modified":"2022-11-03T20:49:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T00:49:34","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-admits-he-lost-half-his-audience-for-bashing-trump-and-hes-fine-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-admits-he-lost-half-his-audience-for-bashing-trump-and-hes-fine-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Admits He Lost Half His Audience For Bashing Trump \u2013 And He\u2019s Fine With That"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjimmy-kimmel-admits-he-lost-half-his-audience-for-bashing-trump-and-hes-fine-with-that%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1724048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Late-night comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/i-am-wearing-childrens-underwear-for-you-mila-kunis-scolds-jimmy-kimmels-audience-for-booing-her\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> admitted during a Wednesday podcast appearance that he may have lost half of his audience \u2014 possibly even more than that \u2014 when he made a conscious choice to bash former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/white-men-really-are-insufferable-jimmy-kimmel-blasted-for-playing-dead-during-black-creators-emmy-acceptance-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kimmel<\/a> discussed the issue with the \u201cNaked Lunch\u201d podcast host and \u201cEverybody Loves Raymond\u201d creator Phil Rosenthal, and he explained that he decided he could not in good conscience lay off the former president for the sake of his own show\u2019s success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDoes ABC ever say to you, \u2018Hey, could you not just attack this side and lay off a little bit? Cause we are gonna lose those people?\u2019\u201d Rosenthal asked, noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/jimmy-kimmel-lost-half-fanbase-over-donald-trump-jokes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kimmel\u2019s animosity<\/a> extended to a number of Republicans other than just Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was at one time, maybe, I don\u2019t know, like right around the beginning of this whole like Trump thing where \u2014 \u201d Kimmel began, but Rosenthal interrupted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is now eight years ago?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah. Something like that. Maybe not quite that long ago that that was like kind of hinted at. But I just said, \u2018Listen, I get it. I mean, I don\u2019t disagree. I mean, you\u2019re right. I have lost half of my fans \u2014 maybe more than that,\u2019\u201d Kimmel replied.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel went on to say that, prior to that, research had suggested that he was pretty popular among Republicans \u2014 and he added that he had even been willing to give up the show if that was what ABC wanted from him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I get it, if that\u2019s what they want to do, I just said, \u2018Listen, if that\u2019s what you wanna do, I understand and I don\u2019t begrudge you for it, but I\u2019m not going to do that. So, you know, if you want somebody else to host the show, then that\u2019s fine. That\u2019s okay with me. I\u2019m just not gonna do it like that,\u2019\u201d he explained, adding that ABC had ultimately allowed him the freedom to make that choice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey knew I was serious. I mean, you know \u2026 I couldn\u2019t live with myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenthal appeared to agree, telling Kimmel that what he and fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers were doing \u2014 with regard to attacking Republicans from their large platforms \u2014 amounted to a \u201cpublic service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re the guys who make us feel like we\u2019re not alone,\u201d Rosenthal said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, I love this country, too,\u201d Kimmel said, arguing that he didn\u2019t see it as a public service so much as just something he needed to do. \u201cI mean, you know, that flag doesn\u2019t belong to them. This is ours. And when I see somebody coming in and ruining it, I\u2019m gonna say something about it. That\u2019s it. That\u2019s as simple as that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fellow comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/its-half-the-country-bill-maher-explains-why-he-cant-get-behind-hating-trump-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Maher<\/a> took the opposite position, noting that while he was perfectly willing to attack Trump, he didn\u2019t extend that animosity toward Trump\u2019s voters. \u201cIt\u2019s half the country,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the Naked Lunch podcast below:<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel admitted during a Wednesday podcast appearance that he may have lost half of his audience \u2014 possibly even more than that \u2014 when he made a conscious choice to bash former President Donald Trump. Kimmel discussed the issue with the \u201cNaked Lunch\u201d podcast host and \u201cEverybody Loves Raymond\u201d creator Phil Rosenthal, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1724051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1724051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}