{"id":52312,"date":"2026-01-08T02:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52312"},"modified":"2026-01-08T05:40:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:40:41","slug":"jeopardy-host-ken-jennings-says-2028-candidate-who-vows-to-prosecute-trump-regime-has-my-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=52312","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jeopardy!&#8217; host Ken Jennings says 2028 candidate who vows to prosecute Trump &#8216;regime&#8217; &#8216;has my vote&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; host Ken Jennings appeared to take a swipe at President&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>&nbsp;and his administration, saying he&#8217;d support a candidate who vows to prosecute the current &#8220;regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jennings took to the liberal social media platform Bluesky Wednesday during a news cycle dominated by the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/minneapolis-ice-shooting-january-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ICE-involved shooting<\/a>&nbsp;in Minneapolis.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;The \u2018prosecute the former regime at every level\u2019 candidate has my vote in 2028,&#8221; Jennings wrote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">On Tuesday, he appeared to knock Trump&#8217;s policy on Venezuela, writing on Bluesky, &#8220;America is always like \u2018ok but the NEXT regime change will work,\u2019 like when I \u2018cut out carbs\u2019 briefly every January.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; host Ken Jennings said the 2028 presidential candidate who vows to prosecute the Trump administration &#8220;has my vote.&#8221;&nbsp;(Screenshot\/Bluesky)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sony Pictures Television, which produces the syndicated game show; Jennings; and representatives for Jennings did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital&#8217;s requests for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jennings, who began co-hosting&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/shows\/jeopardy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;in 2021 and became the solo host in 2023, has had a history of liberal, anti-Trump commentary.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In 2017, the former &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; champion mocked Trump&#8217;s 11-year-old son Barron, who reportedly believed that the infamous photo of liberal comedian Kathy Griffin holding a prop of the president&#8217;s bloodied severed head was real after seeing it on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Barron Trump saw a very long necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad &amp; his little heart is breaking,&#8221; Jennings wrote in a since-deleted post on Twitter (now called X).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; host Ken Jennings has a history of making anti-Trump comments.&nbsp;(Christopher Willard\/Disney via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jennings initially defended the post amid backlash, writing, &#8220;The joke doesn&#8217;t mock Barron. It mocks using him for political cover.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In 2018, Jennings poked fun at what he called an &#8220;awful MAGA grandma&#8221; in response to a social media post from a woman who remembered her late disabled son who was a fan of the iconic &#8217;80s TV character &#8220;Alf.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">In January 2020, Jennings offered his support to senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., during the Democratic primary, posting, &#8220;Remember, defending champion Ken Jennings wants you to vote for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">When he was under consideration to replace longtime &#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; host Alex Trebek after his Trebek&#8217;s death, Jennings issued a broad apology for his past &#8220;insensitive&#8221; tweets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;I just wanted to own up to the fact that over the years on Twitter, I&#8217;ve definitely tweeted some unartful and insensitive things. Sometimes they worked as jokes in my head, and I was dismayed to see how they read on screen,&#8221; Jennings wrote in December 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;In the past, I&#8217;d usually leave bad tweets up just so they could be dunked on. At least that way they could lead to smart replies and even advocacy. Deleting them felt like whitewashing a mistake. But I think that practice may have given the impression I stand by every failed joke I&#8217;ve ever posted here. Not at all!&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Sometimes I said dumb things in a dumb way and I want to apologize to people who were (rightfully!) offended. It wasn&#8217;t my intention to hurt anyone, but that doesn&#8217;t matter: I screwed up, and I&#8217;m truly sorry.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jennings once sparked outrage for mocking President Donald Trump&#8217;s son Barron, who was 11 at the time.&nbsp;&nbsp;(Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Jennings&#8217; latest post is likely in reference to the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s response to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis. DHS accused a woman who was shot behind the wheel of a vehicle of &#8220;domestic terrorism&#8221; by targeting an ICE agent in front of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Critics are accusing the agent of using excessive force.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/jeopardy-host-ken-jennings-says-2028-candidate-who-vows-prosecute-trump-regime-has-my-vote#&amp;_intcmp=fnhpbt7\">foxnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Jeopardy!&#8221; host Ken Jennings appeared to take a swipe at President&nbsp;Donald Trump&nbsp;and his administration, saying he&#8217;d support a candidate who vows to prosecute the current &#8220;regime.&#8221; Jennings took to the liberal social media platform Bluesky Wednesday during a news cycle dominated by the&nbsp;ICE-involved shooting&nbsp;in Minneapolis.&nbsp; &#8220;The \u2018prosecute the former regime at every level\u2019 candidate has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":52313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8269,35933,25089],"class_list":["post-52312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-host","tag-jennings","tag-jeopardy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52314,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52312\/revisions\/52314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}