{"id":2196220,"date":"2024-03-11T07:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-couldnt-resist-trump-jab-during-refreshingly-unwoke-oscars\/"},"modified":"2024-03-11T07:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T11:14:01","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-couldnt-resist-trump-jab-during-refreshingly-unwoke-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-couldnt-resist-trump-jab-during-refreshingly-unwoke-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel takes a swipe at Trump during Oscars"},"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\">18<\/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-couldnt-resist-trump-jab-during-refreshingly-unwoke-oscars%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=2196220&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--><div>\n<header>\n<div>\n<p><time datetime=\"2024-03-11\">March 11, 2024<\/time><\/p>\n<p>3 min read<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Isn&#8217;t it past your jail time?&#8221; Kimmel asked\u2064 former President Donald Trump after reading a Truth Social post in\u200c which Trump\u2064 criticized his performance at the Oscars on Sunday \u2063night.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A triggered Jimmy Kimmel reads President Trump&#8217;s\u2062 Truth\u2063 post live at the Oscars. Then jokes \u200dabout him going to \u2062jail. The Hollywood\u2064 audience \u200bclaps\u200c like seals. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mvOeVSjnTL\">pic.twitter.com\/mvOeVSjnTL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1767016028381303071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>In \u2062his own words \u2014 delivered \u2063with the cadence of a joke but undeniably sincere \u2062\u2014 Kimmel was starved for attention and figured the best way to put himself back under the\u2063 spotlight \u2063was to cheer on the\u200d Democrats&#8217; attempts at bankrupting and imprisoning \u2064their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ted-cruz-manages-to-trigger-leftists-by-doing-something-millions-of-americans-do-every-year\/\" title=\"Ted Cruz Manages To Trigger Leftists by Doing Something Millions of Americans Do Every Year\">political opponents<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And there it\u200b is. Jimmy Kimmel took an otherwise enjoyable Oscars and micturated all over it by cheering on Democrat attempts to imprison and bankrupt political opponents. So so so so \u200clame.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mollie (@MZHemingway) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MZHemingway\/status\/1767012750746652698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The unfortunate thing is that up until then, the\u200d 96th Academy Awards had been pleasant and generally inoffensive. \u200dThere was very\u2063 little <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AvivaKlompas\/status\/1766999064808140803?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">grandstanding<\/a> by awardees, movies and\u200b actors people\u2063 actually \u200bcare \u2064about won, and the event featured live performances and cameos\u2062 that normal\u200b people would\u2063 enjoy.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">John Mulaney: &#8220;Without sound, we wouldn&#8217;t have \u200bbeen able to hear\u2062 such\u200c classic \u2062lines as &#8216;You&#8217;re gonna need a bigger boat,&#8217; &#8216;I&#8217;ll have what she&#8217;s having&#8217; and &#8216;He was in the Amazon with my mother when\u2062 she \u200dwas researching spiders just before \u2064she died.'&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UNgGySGz3r\">https:\/\/t.co\/UNgGySGz3r<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WLFpHIWU85\">pic.twitter.com\/WLFpHIWU85<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/1766999888695280094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>John Cena \u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DiscussingFilm\/status\/1766980817488585122?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">crawled out on stage naked<\/a>, Ryan Gosling performed &#8220;I&#8217;m Just Ken&#8221; (monumental win for \u200dpatriarchy, apropos of nothing), and there was even a Mountain Dew advertisement. Whereas for years, the Oscars have\u200c been little more than a self-love fest for Hollywood, there\u200d appeared to \u200dbe a concerted effort by the self-proclaimed tastemakers to\u2062 meet the people where they are instead of sneering at them. \u2064It was an evening\u200c largely filled with people having fun for the sake of having fun.<\/p>\n<p>For \u2063all intents and \u200dpurposes,\u200c American monoculture was the biggest winner of the 2024 Academy \u200cAwards. After all,\u2063 in 2023,\u2063 Hollywood created products that \u200bpeople actually wanted to see, and given the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/entertainment\/oscars-streaming-ratings-academy-awards-1.6775794\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">routinely dismal ratings<\/a> \u200dthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-more-ricky-ratings-for-woke-golden-globes-crash-spectacularly\/\" title=\"No More Ricky: Ratings For Woke Golden Globes Crash Spectacularly\">award show<\/a> routinely pulls, it&#8217;s \u200breasonable to assume its organizers would want\u2064 to try not \u2062to unnecessarily alienate people. Considering <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/StevenJDuffield\/status\/1767018835209601170?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">people were invested in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/film-critic-suggests-nominating-superhero-flicks-to-save-the-oscars-from-ratings-death\/\" title=\"Film Critic Suggests Nominating Superhero Flicks to 'Save the Oscars' from Ratings Death\">films nominated<\/a><\/a> this time, why drive them away \u2063when they appear to be coming together around a unifying \u200ccultural phenomenon \u200dfor the first time in ages?<\/p>\n<p>That the show wasn&#8217;t a\u200c several-hours-long struggle session is \u2062sort of amazing, especially when considering <em>some<\/em> of the films nominated for best picture. &#8220;Oppenheimer&#8221;\u200c is arguably about how America\u200d is too mean to communists, &#8220;American Fiction&#8221; deals\u200b with black identity in the publishing industry, &#8220;Killers of the Flower Moon&#8221; is about the capitalist exploitation of Native\u200c Americans, &#8220;Zone of Interest&#8221; is \u2062about Nazis living\u200c next to Auschwitz, and &#8220;Barbie&#8221; \u200cis about <s>how dudes \u2062freaking rock<\/s> the difficulties faced by \u200dmodern women.<\/p>\n<p>But at the end of the day, Hollywood isn&#8217;t for common people. It&#8217;s for <em>special people<\/em> like Jimmy Kimmel. It&#8217;s for our \u2062betters, to\u200c whom we must pay attention and praise. That&#8217;s why, despite not calling you a bigot or a racist or \u200cxenophobic transphobe, Kimmel had to look into the camera, \u200dsmirk, and \u200bremind \u200dyou he&#8217;s on the team trying to send \u2063your guy to jail.<\/p>\n<p>That the common man&#8217;s tastes and Hollywood&#8217;s \u2063interests \u200boverlapped in the year of our Lord\u200b 2024 is a bug, not a feature.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>Samuel Mangold-Lenett is a staff editor at The Federalist. His writing has been featured in\u200d the Daily Wire, Townhall, The American Spectator, and other \u2064outlets. He\u2062 is a 2022 Claremont Institute \u200bPublius Fellow. Follow him on Twitter @smlenett.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Samuel Mangold-Lenett<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Visit on \u200cTwitter<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/smlenett\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@smlenett<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How did \u200cJimmy Kimmel&#8217;s\u2062 political\u2062 comments at\u200c the 96th Academy Awards affect the overall atmosphere\u200d of the ceremony?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2062 March 11, 2024<\/p>\n<p>3 min read<\/p>\n<p>The 96th Academy Awards took place \u200don Sunday night, and for\u200c the \u200bmost part, it was a pleasant and generally inoffensive event. However, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel managed to stir up controversy with his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/final-straw-hollywood-reporter-sources-say-disney-wanted-to-fire-carano-in-november\/\" title=\"\u2018Final Straw\u2019: Hollywood Reporter Sources Say Disney Wanted To Fire Carano In November\">political comments<\/a>, drawing attention away from the otherwise enjoyable ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel,\u200d reading \u2062a post from former President\u2063 Donald Trump&#8217;s Truth Social platform, criticized Trump&#8217;s performance \u2064at the Oscars. In\u2062 response, Kimmel remarked, &#8220;Isn&#8217;t\u2064 it past your jail time?&#8221; While the comment was delivered with the cadence of a joke, it was undeniably sincere, demonstrating Kimmel&#8217;s desire \u200dto put himself back under the spotlight by cheering on the Democrats&#8217; attempts at persecuting their political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>Many viewers found Kimmel&#8217;s comments unnecessary and inappropriate, tarnishing what had\u2063 been a pleasant awards show. Prior to Kimmel&#8217;s \u200bremark, the event\u2062 had featured minimal \u200cgrandstanding by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lapd-reps-blast-hollywood-for-anti-police-rhetoric-at-oscars\/\" title=\"LAPD Reps Blast Hollywood For Anti-Police Rhetoric At Oscars\">award winners<\/a>. Movies and \u2062actors that people actually care about were recognized, and the show included \u2064live performances and cameos \u200bthat \u2063appealed to the\u200b general\u2064 audience.<\/p>\n<p>The presence \u2062of\u2063 John Cena, who crawled out on stage\u2062 naked, and Ryan Gosling&#8217;s \u200dperformance of &#8220;I&#8217;m Just\u2062 Ken&#8221;\u200d added a touch of humor and entertainment. \u200cAdditionally, a Mountain Dew advertisement further\u2062 demonstrated a concerted effort by the event&#8217;s organizers to engage with the audience\u200b and \u200dmeet them where they are, rather than alienating them.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Academy\u200b Awards highlighted American monoculture \u2064as \u200bthe biggest winner of the night. Hollywood produced films in 2023 that\u200d resonated with audiences, resulting in \u200cincreased interest \u2063and viewership. Given the routinely dismal ratings the award show has experienced in recent years, it is reasonable to assume that organizers would want to avoid unnecessarily alienating\u200d viewers.<\/p>\n<p>This year, people were invested in the films \u2062nominated, and the event provided a platform for \u200bcelebrating cultural diversity and\u200d unity. It was an evening largely filled with people having fun simply for the sake of enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>While\u2063 the Oscars\u2064 should be a time to recognize the achievements of the film industry, Kimmel&#8217;s political comment overshadowed the positive \u2063aspects of the ceremony. It is \u200cessential for future events to focus on entertainment and celebration, rather than injecting unnecessary \u2062politics\u200b into the proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":2196221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kimmel-2.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kimmel-2.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196220","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\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2196221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}