{"id":12230,"date":"2025-11-22T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=12230"},"modified":"2025-11-22T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T09:53:26","slug":"donald-trump-sends-brutal-message-to-jimmy-kimmel-after-epstein-themed-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=12230","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump sends brutal message to Jimmy Kimmel after Epstein-themed joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"68\" data-end=\"138\">Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s long-running feud has flared up again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"568\"><strong data-start=\"140\" data-end=\"163\">\u201cHurricane Epstein\u201d<\/strong><br data-start=\"163\" data-end=\"166\" \/>The latest clash began after Kimmel mocked Trump in his Wednesday monologue, joking that newly expected Epstein court documents were a \u201cCategory 5\u201d storm heading straight for the former president. In a YouTube clip titled <em data-start=\"388\" data-end=\"424\">Trump Braces for Hurricane Epstein<\/em>, Kimmel pushed the joke further, implying viewers were getting \u201cone step closer\u201d to answers about what Trump knew\u2014despite offering no evidence.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"570\" data-end=\"743\">Trump quickly fired back on Truth Social, attacking both Kimmel and ABC, calling the host talentless with \u201cvery poor ratings\u201d and demanding the network take him off the air.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"745\" data-end=\"1033\">Their renewed spat comes as Congress advances the <em data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"827\">Epstein Files Transparency Act<\/em>, which passed the House 427\u20131 and the Senate unanimously. Kimmel joked the vote was such a \u201clandslide\u201d that Trump might want to \u201crebury\u201d the files. In fact, Trump had already signed the bill hours earlier.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1035\" data-end=\"1228\">The dust-up also follows Kimmel\u2019s recent brief suspension from ABC after controversial remarks about Charlie Kirk. He returned without apologizing, taking more shots at critics\u2014including Trump.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1230\" data-end=\"1598\">Trump has similarly lashed out at other late-night hosts, recently urging NBC to fire Seth Meyers. Tensions grew further this week when ABC\u2019s Mary Bruce questioned Trump about the Epstein case during a tense Oval Office news conference, leading Trump to call her a \u201cterrible reporter.\u201d Days earlier, he referred to a Bloomberg reporter as \u201cpiggy\u201d aboard Air Force One.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1600\" data-end=\"1783\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">By Wednesday, the White House escalated the fight, issuing a letter blasting ABC and accusing the network of acting as a \u201cDemocrat spin operation masquerading as a broadcast network.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s long-running feud has flared up again. \u201cHurricane Epstein\u201dThe latest clash began after Kimmel mocked Trump in his Wednesday monologue, joking that newly expected Epstein court documents were a \u201cCategory 5\u201d storm heading straight for the former president. In a YouTube clip titled Trump Braces for Hurricane Epstein, Kimmel pushed the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=12230\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Donald Trump sends brutal message to Jimmy Kimmel after Epstein-themed joke&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12232,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12230\/revisions\/12232"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}