Donald Trump might have hit out at Jimmy Kimmel’s internet hosting of the Oscars, however he’s no stranger to lambasting the Academy Awards. Actually, Trump’s criticism of the present is one thing of an Oscar evening custom.
Throughout tonight’s Oscars, which noticed Oppenheimer and Poor Issues dominate the wins, Kimmel learn aloud a press release posted by Trump on his social media web site Fact Social wherein the previous US president attacked the presenter’s internet hosting talents.
“Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars,” Trump wrote. “His opening was that of a lower than common individual attempting too laborious to be one thing which he’s not, and by no means will be.” In response, Kimmel joked: “Isn’t it previous your jail time?”
Unusually, this isn’t the primary time Trump has gone after the Oscars. And even the second or third time. In 2021, he claimed that “the Oscars” is “a far much less vital and chic identify” than “the Academy Awards”, and poked enjoyable on the present’s declining rankings. “In the event that they maintain with the present ridiculous system, it’s going to solely worsen – if that’s potential,” he wrote on Twitter.
In 2020, Trump grew to become distracted throughout a rally and went on a rant about that 12 months’s Finest Image prize being awarded to Bong Joon-ho’s celebrated class satire Parasite. “By the way in which, how unhealthy have been the Academy Awards this 12 months, do you see?” Trump requested the group. “And the winner [was] a film from South Korea. What the hell was all that about? We received sufficient issues with South Korea, on commerce, and on prime of it they provide it the most effective film of the 12 months. Was it good?”
Then he complained that movies have been inferior to they was. “Can we get Gone with the Wind again, please? Sundown Boulevard! So many nice films.” He additionally added that he was not a fan of Brad Pitt, who received Finest Supporting Actor that evening for As soon as Upon a Time in Hollywood, dubbing him “somewhat wiseguy”.
Donald Trump at a marketing campaign rally in March 2023, and Jimmy Kimmel on the Oscars
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In 2017, Trump – ever a pop-culture commentator – additionally commented on the snafu that briefly noticed La La Land declared the Finest Image winner over Moonlight. “They have been centered so laborious on politics that they didn’t get the act collectively on the finish,” he claimed to Breitbart Information.
In Trump’s latest rant concerning the Academy Awards, he added that Kimmel ought to be changed for future Oscar ceremonies by the US TV presenter George Stephanopoulos, who Trump dubbed “one other washed up, however low-cost, ABC ‘expertise’.”
Trump adopted up his host criticisms by condemning the Oscars as a complete. “Additionally a very unhealthy politically appropriate present tonight, and for years – disjointed, boring, and really unfair. Why don’t they only give the Oscars to those who deserve them. Perhaps that manner their viewers and TV rankings will come again from the depths. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
This 12 months’s Oscars noticed Oppenheimer triumph within the Finest Image, Finest Director, Finest Actor and Finest Supporting Actor classes, whereas Emma Stone was awarded a shock Finest Actress Oscar for her efficiency in Poor Issues – regardless of predictions that Killers of the Flower Moon’s Lily Gladstone would triumph.
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