Trump officials complained about Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes to Disney – report

Ex-president became so incensed with late-night host’s jabs that two calls were made in 2018 to top executives at network owner

Donald Trump is fond of telling interviewers that he has a “very thick skin”, but it now appears that it was insufficiently robust to prevent Jimmy Kimmel jokes from getting under it while he was in the White House.

Rolling Stone has revealed that in early 2018, a year into Trump’s presidency, he became so incensed with the late-night host’s jabs that he ordered White House officials to complain. At least two calls were made, the magazine reports, to top executives at Disney, which owns ABC, the channel which broadcasts Jimmy Kimmel Live.