'I Want To Address The President Directly': Jimmy Kimmel Offers Trump 'Destiny' Moment
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The late night host called on the president to "give the people what they want" with a single move.
Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday night made an unexpected offer to Donald Trump after the president said he would attend the White House Correspondents’ Association’s annual dinner for the first time in either of his terms.
Kimmel pointed out that this year’s host isn’t a comedian, as usual, but mentalist Oz Pearlman.
“We’ll have a mentalist and a mental case on stage together,” he cracked.
Kimmel, who hosted the event in 2012, offered an alternative.
“I want to address the president directly on this,” Kimmel said. “Mr. President, please let me host this dinner. I’ve never asked you for anything, but can you imagine you, me, the commissioner of the FCC, all at a table together? Think of the ratings.”
The “Late Night” host revealed what’s “especially weird” about the president’s rationale for a “war no one asked for.”
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The late night host mocked Trump for doing exactly what he once predicted Barack Obama would do.
The "Late Show" host suggested the military strike may be more about distraction than any actual threat to the nation.
The celebrity socialite said she was living for her daughter because "I'm all she's got."
Toby Morton, who has mocked MAGA through dozens of parody websites, got personal with the president amid an outbreak of war in the Middle East.
"There are so many reasons to hate JD Vance, I didn’t think we needed a culinary one, but it’s so bad," she laughed during an interview on "The Daily Show" last week.
"If that’s homophobic, then I’m that," LaBeouf said during his first interview since the Feb. 17 incident in New Orleans.
The actor took home his first solo win at SAG's ceremony for his leading turn in "Sinners."
"We were lucky that we got to live in a world where she so generally shared her talents with us," the actor said of his late "The Studio" co-star.
Along with a new name, this was the first year the celebration embraced a dress code.
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Colin Jost, host of the "SNL" news segment, let the president have the floor to explain his "bad idea."