President Donald Trump was reportedly so livid over Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s TV jokes that he ordered White House officials to get the late night host muzzled.
\nRolling Stone reported on Sunday that there were at least two phone calls to a top Disney executive to demand action against Kimmel in 2018. Disney is the parent company of ABC, which airs \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live.\u201d
\nOne unnamed former senior Trump administration official told the magazine that Trump felt Kimmel was being \u201cvery dishonest and doing things that [Trump] would have once sued over.\u201d
\nAnother unnamed former official told Rolling Stone: \u201cNobody thought it was going to change anything but DJT was focused on it so we had to do something\u2026It was doing something, mostly, to say to [Trump], \u2018Hey, we did this.\u2019\u201d
\nKimmel said last year that ABC officials at one point asked him to ease off Trump, but he refused.
\n\u201cI just said, \u2018Listen, if that\u2019s what you want to do, I understand and I don\u2019t begrudge you for it, but I\u2019m not going to do that,\u2019\u201d he told the \u201cNaked Lunch\u201d podcast.
\nIt\u2019s not clear if that conversation came as a result of the White House pressure campaign on Disney. ABC left Kimmel alone, and he continues to mock the former president to this day.
\nTrump, for his part, has long raged at comics making jokes about him, attacking Kimmel, \u201cSaturday Night Live,\u201d Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart and more.
\nThe Daily Beast reported in 2021 that Trump during his presidency asked the Justice Department to investigate late night comics who made fun of him, and asked advisors if the Federal Communications Commission or courts could stop the jokes.<\/p>\n
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