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Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel has said that the show’s producers tried to stop him reading out Donald Trump’s social media post attacking him and the Oscars during the live telecast on Sunday.
Shortly before the show’s close, Kimmel read out part of Trump’s message on Truth Social, which the former president had posted a short time earlier. “Has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be.” Trump also called the show “disjointed, boring, and very unfair” before closing with “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
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