Jimmy Kimmel has fired back at U.S. President Donald Trump after the latter predicted Kimmel can be the following late-night host to face cancellation, following the introduced finish of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. CBS just lately confirmed that Colbert’s present would wrap after the 2025–26 season, citing finances constraints amid a shrinking late-night economic system. Trump, nonetheless, celebrated the event as a private victory and used it as a chance to focus on his standard media critics.
Taking to Truth Social, Trump posted, “The word is, and it’s a strong word at that, Jimmy Kimmel is NEXT to go in the untalented Late Night Sweepstakes and, shortly thereafter, Fallon will be gone.” He additionally known as the late-night trio — Kimmel, Colbert, and Jimmy Fallon — “no-talent” hosts who had “ruined what used to be great television.”
Trump praised Fox News character Greg Gutfeld as superior to all of them and took a direct swipe at Fallon, calling him “the moron on NBC.”
Kimmel responded on Instagram simply hours later. “I’m hearing you’re next. Or maybe it’s just another wonderful secret,” he wrote, referencing a current Wall Street Journal exposé a few 2003 birthday letter Trump wrote to Jeffrey Epstein. That letter, described intimately by the WSJ, was reportedly typed inside the define of a unadorned girl and signed “Donald” beneath the waist. It ended with the phrase, “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
Kimmel’s comeback ties Trump’s late-night feud to the broader controversy surrounding his previous relationship with Epstein. It comes amid rising scrutiny after WSJ additionally reported that former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed Trump his title was referenced within the Epstein recordsdata — information the Justice Department just lately declined to launch.
While CBS has denied any political motive in ending Colbert’s present, the announcement got here shortly after Colbert criticised Paramount for settling a lawsuit with Trump over a 60 Minutes section, calling the $16 million payout a “fat bribe.”
