Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel has mentioned that the present’s producers tried to cease him studying out Donald Trump’s social media submit attacking him and the Oscars through the dwell telecast on Sunday.
Shortly earlier than the present’s shut, Kimmel learn out a part of Trump’s message on Fact Social, which the previous president had posted a short while earlier. “Has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel on the Oscars. His opening was that of a lower than common individual making an attempt too onerous to be one thing which he’s not, and by no means will be.” Trump additionally referred to as the present “disjointed, boring, and really unfair” earlier than closing with “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Kimmel thanked Trump for watching, earlier than asking: “Isn’t it previous your jail time?”
Kimmel revealed after the present that producers had tried to dissuade him from studying out Trump’s submit. Chatting with Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos for Stay with Kelly and Mark after the present, Kimmel mentioned that the Oscars’ producers had spoken to him in regards to the message. “I used to be like, ‘I’m studying the Trump tweet,’ they usually’re like, ‘No, no, don’t learn that.’ [I said:] ‘Sure I’m.’”
On his personal speak present, Kimmel mentioned the present’s producers had been additionally nervous in regards to the attention-grabbing stunt that includes a unadorned John Cena, to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the streak by Robert Opel in 1974. Kimmel mentioned: “Of all of the occasions I’ve hosted the Oscars or the Emmys or something, no comedy bit has ever obtained extra scrutiny than this. There have been conferences and facet conferences, emails and texts and cellphone calls and other people sweating. Anyone was crying. Then, as soon as they realised we weren’t going to take no for a solution, there have been intense discussions in regards to the measurement of the envelope, whether or not we would have liked to Velcro it to John’s physique, to fill his crack or have socks, numerous testicalia was mentioned […] They saved demanding that we make the envelope larger.”
He added: “Very not often does an concept actually push the envelope, and this one did.”
Kimmel additionally commented additional on Trump, saying: “It form of tells you all it’s worthwhile to learn about Donald Trump … He wrote this as a result of he was upset I didn’t point out him on the present. Nobody talked about him on the present. He wasn’t getting any consideration, he couldn’t stand it […] I wasn’t planning to say him in any respect. We had been backstage, the present was nearly over and one of many different writers was like, ‘Hey take a look at this.’ And to cite Al Pacino, simply once I thought I used to be out, they pull me again in. I needed to learn it.”
He added: “We had John Cena on stage bare and in some way Donald Trump nonetheless managed to be the most important dick of the night time.”
