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Jimmy Kimmel: American People Have Had Enough Trump-Bashing
brietbart ^ | 05/13/2018 | Ben Kew

Posted on 05/14/2018 6:26:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel says that the American people have had enough of the type of anti-Trump humor that he regularly spews and that it is now time for him to “make fun of ourselves.” In an interview with Deadline, Kimmel was asked whether he had prepared a “barrelful of barbs” for President Trump in his upcoming standup routine for ABC’s upfronts.

“Oh, wow. Yeah, you know, I hadn’t really thought about it that way, but I guess you’re right. Hopefully, it’ll be the last upfront of the Trump era, too,” Kimmel said.

“So, I don’t know, I don’t know how much focus there will be on that. I think people have had an ass-full of Donald Trump, and I feel like the upfront is a time to look within and make fun of ourselves,” Kimmel said of his comedy routine for the annual event that sees major advertisers gather to purchase airtime on networks, like ABC, ahead of the summer and fall TV seasons.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; bashing; enoughalready; hollywood; jimmykimmel; tds; trump; winning
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1 posted on 05/14/2018 6:26:45 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Awww thanks jimmy. But, too little, too late. Now, where is that applause sign?


2 posted on 05/14/2018 6:28:53 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oh, so Jimmy is the self proclaimed decisionmaker on when and if Americans are tired of his schitk?..............


3 posted on 05/14/2018 6:32:06 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

"...Americans have had enough President Trump-bashing..."


Normal people do not wish to view their leftwinger seething anger at the end of our long and busy days.
That is precisely why I utterly tuned-out those latenight hosts many years ago.


4 posted on 05/14/2018 6:32:11 AM PDT by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Americans have had enough of far leftist bullies.


5 posted on 05/14/2018 6:34:14 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My guess....His wife is angry about him using the baby. Mother’s are like that.


6 posted on 05/14/2018 6:35:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: ChicagoConservative27

HE oughta know!!


7 posted on 05/14/2018 6:36:09 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Col. Sanders: “Americans are eating WAY too much chicken.”


8 posted on 05/14/2018 6:37:56 AM PDT by daler
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To: ChicagoConservative27

NOTE: Kimmel did NOT say “enough Trump bashing”... the quote says “I think people have had an ass-full of Donald Trump” (while admitting that he has to bat away from Trump bashing, because it isn’t working).


9 posted on 05/14/2018 6:41:29 AM PDT by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: rktman

Please clap.


10 posted on 05/14/2018 6:43:18 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: rktman

Yeah...the fake cheering and applause doesn’t help his crap ratings. Who in the heck stays up that late to watch TV anyway?


11 posted on 05/14/2018 6:45:59 AM PDT by gr8eman (Since God has been banished from our classrooms, Satan has filled the void.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel says that the American people have had enough of the type of anti-Trump humor that he regularly spews and that it is now time for him to “make fun of ourselves.” “

Meh.

So he’s going to switch from bashing President Trump to bashing Trump supporters?

He’ll pick up some #neverTrump freepers who are probably already closet viewers.

Perhaps he’s hoping for the the Mueller/Sessions bashers.


12 posted on 05/14/2018 6:46:26 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: Teacher317

It isn’t working? So, his jokes are falling flat, his ratings are falling? What’s he really saying?


13 posted on 05/14/2018 6:47:39 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: rktman

The constant barbs coming from Kimmel may have become totally counterproductive, in that the resolve of the pro-Trumpers was greatly hardened (because of the patently untrue nature of most of the “jokes”) and even those disposed to not like Trump at whatever level, found the cognitive dissonance a little irritating.

If anyone is going to attack Trump, it had better be on an entirely factual basis, not by building an ersatz straw man, calling it “Trump” and directing the insults at that edifice. The attacker just ends up looking silly.

Those who do not like Donald Trump, for whatever reason, will not be swayed by some half-hearted “apology” from Jimmy Kimmel, no more than they were by the “apology” from Kathy Griffin.


14 posted on 05/14/2018 6:47:39 AM PDT by alloysteel (Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

My observations say that people are tired of the Left spewing vitriol and deep seated hatred dividing this great country. The “audience” for their hate is turning them off.


15 posted on 05/14/2018 6:49:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

His ratings and advertising $’s must be dropping like his IQ every time he opens his mouth to trash our president.


16 posted on 05/14/2018 6:51:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/tag/jimmy-kimmel-live-ratings/


17 posted on 05/14/2018 6:53:36 AM PDT by morphing libertarian ( Build Kate's Wall)
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“Who in the heck stays up that late to watch TV anyway?”

Dropouts and millennials, who don’t have a functioning brain nor any disposable income to buy the advertised products on his bashing of President, posing as entertainment.


18 posted on 05/14/2018 6:54:08 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Democrats are having trouble with their MAMA campaign, (Make America Mexico Again), versus MAGA!)
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Actually, against the three competitors (to include TBS)...Kimmel was occasionally number one in the ratings game. I think the network came to find more advertisers were questioning the Trump-bashing and declining opportunities, even if it was the number one show.

You have to think about this as well...could you maintain this anti-Trump theme for possibly eight years, and then what happens if another Trump-character appears in 2024, could you continue running four more years of anti-Trump-like jokes with the next guy?

There’s also this trend of folks dumping the networks and going off to Netflix...which a lot of college-age kids are doing.


19 posted on 05/14/2018 7:02:17 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Patriotic Americans are sick and tired of the war against Trump. We used to pride ourselves in the orderly transfer of power every four or eight years. Can’t say that anymore with the previous administration, head investigative agency, and spy agencies working behind the scenes conniving to thwart America’s will.


20 posted on 05/14/2018 7:02:42 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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