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Watch: Jimmy Kimmel Takes a Cheap Shot at 'Melania' from the Oscars Stage - The Backlash Is Brutal
For a fading host of a fading Hollywood awards ceremony, first lady Melania Trump was too easy a target to ignore.
Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel used the Oscars stage Sunday at Los Angeles’ Dolby Theatre to take a cheap shot at President Donald Trump’s wife while demonstrating how little truth actually matters to the modern left.
And while he got a forced laugh from his audience, the social media blowback was far louder.
Jimmy Kimmel presenting at the Oscars: “There are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which. Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS.” pic.twitter.com/6k92W4bN5W — LateNighter (@latenightercom) March 16, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel presenting at the Oscars: “There are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which. Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS.” pic.twitter.com/6k92W4bN5W
— LateNighter (@latenightercom) March 16, 2026
“There are some countries whose leaders don’t support free speech. I’m not at liberty to say which,” Kimmel said on the nationally televised program, while introducing the award for documentary short film, according to The Hill.
“Let’s just leave it at North Korea and CBS.”
It was an apparent reference to the coming cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” — a nightly festival of Trump hatred that’s due to leave the air in May.
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