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Oscar Host Jimmy Kimmel Says He Was Told Not To Read Donald Trump’s Truth Social Post During Ceremony, But He Did Anyway


Trump had called Kimmel the worst host ever.

As the Oscar ceremony was running a little short, Jimmy Kimmel said that he was told not to read Donald Trump ‘s Truth Social post on the air, but he did so anyway. So Kimmel went on stage and read it, generating one of the more memorable punchlines of a recent Oscar ceremony. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up, but cheap, ABC ‘talent,’ George Slopanopoulos.

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