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Zorro

(18,703 posts)
Sun Mar 15, 2026, 10:54 PM Mar 15

Trump Nemesis Takes Brutal Swipes at CBS and Melania During Oscars

Jimmy Kimmel appeared at the Oscars on Sunday, where he made a series of harsh digs at Donald Trump and his wife’s movie Melania.

“Oh man, is he going to be mad his wife wasn’t nominated for this,” Kimmel said, just before presenting the award for Best Documentary Feature. The first lady’s vanity documentary was skewered by critics just before it made its underwhelming box office run, during which it made only a fraction of its cost to make.

The late-night host had more burns in his arsenal when he presented the award for Best Documentary Short.

“We hear a lot about courage at shows like this, but telling a story that could get you killed for telling it is real courage,” he said. “As you know, there are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which.”

“Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS,” he added, as the network undergoes its MAGA makeover.

“Fortunately for all of us there’s an international community of filmmakers dedicated to telling the truth, oftentimes at great risk to make films that teach us, that call out injustice, that inspire us to take action, and there are also documentaries where you walk around the White House trying on shoes,” Kimmel continued in another not-so-subtle allusion to the first lady’s much-maligned film.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/jimmy-kimmel-takes-brutal-swipes-at-cbs-and-melania-during-oscars/

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Trump Nemesis Takes Brutal Swipes at CBS and Melania During Oscars (Original Post) Zorro Mar 15 OP
The audience loved it! SunSeeker Mar 15 #1
LOL! Call me "mean" but I love Cha Mar 16 #2
LOL - Guess who will be blasting out on Truth Social into the wee hours of the morning! Totally Tunsie Mar 16 #3
Brutal? charliea Mar 16 #4
The ONLY way Melania could be nominated is popsdenver Mar 16 #5

Cha

(319,185 posts)
2. LOL! Call me "mean" but I love
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 12:44 AM
Mar 16

shit like this... Calling out the Nazi Traitor and his Stupid as he is wife.

TY and Jimmy Kimmel... who is indeed a "Nemesis" of Fucking Nazis Ruling America

charliea

(334 posts)
4. Brutal?
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 02:13 PM
Mar 16

I loved it too but thought it was a light touch, with that target rich subject he could have been far more savage...

popsdenver

(2,319 posts)
5. The ONLY way Melania could be nominated is
Mon Mar 16, 2026, 03:02 PM
Mar 16

if there was a reality film, about her past, Titled:

Melania Does Washington........

(Remember "Debbie Does Dallas" ???????????)

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