Jimmy Kimmel secures Italian citizenship amid tiff with Trump
Jimmy Kimmel revealed he has his Italian passport ready, just in case.
During an interview with comedian Sarah Silverman on her podcast, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host discussed how 'much worse' the president's second term has been for the country, without getting into specifics. He said he has obtained Italian citizenship as a result. Kimmel's Italian heritage from his mother's side gave him the option to double up his citizenship.
'What's going on [with Trump] is as bad as you thought it was gonna be,' Kimmel told his ex-girlfriend.
'I feel like it's probably even worse than [Trump] would like it to be,' he added.
Kimmel has criticized Trump pretty much nonstop on his late-night show since before the president first won the White House in 2016.
Trump has previously called Kimmel 'stupid' and recently said the ABC host would be the next to lose his job after CBS announced in July that it wasn't renewing Stephen Colbert's contract.
Trump celebrated the news that The Late Show would end soon and predicted Kimmel would face the same fate. '[Kimmel] has less talent than Colbert,' the president posted on Truth Social.
Trump doubled down during a press conference last week, saying anyone off the street could do a better job than Kimmel and other mainstream late-night hosts.
Since Trump won in 2020, comedians Rosie O'Donnell and Ellen DeGeneres have re-settled in Ireland and England, respectively.
Kimmel has been on a summer hiatus from his show and will return to his hosting duties in September. – Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service
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