Jimmy Kimmel might have been the worst choice to present the Best Documentary awards at Sunday's Oscars telecast.
He's a comedian, not a journalist, and he's spent the last few years twisting the truth via his "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" pulpit. And, infamously, he told a lie so brazen last year that it earned him a one-week suspension.
No, Jimmy, a MAGA fan wasn't the person allegedly behind Charlie Kirk's assassination. We know that. You know that. But you mislead your audience just the same.
Still, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences saw fit to hire Kimmel to deliver the documentary trophies. The Hollywood bubble is real, and it's bulletproof.
As expected, Kimmel used his podium time to blast President Donald Trump and the First Lady.
First, he alleged that President Trump is personally cracking down on free speech.
"As you know, 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."
Kimmel, and most of his far-Left peers, insist President Trump forced CBS to cancel "The Late Show," ignoring published reports that the late-night platform was losing the Tiffany Network $40 million a year.
Later, Kimmel mocked the Amazon documentary "Melania" as a film "where you walk around the White House trying on shoes."
Stop ... you're killing us!
Kimmel didn't have three-plus hours to rage against President Trump this time around. Conan O'Brien emceed the event instead, dialing down the far-Left politics but still making it clear where his allegiances lie.
Conan O'Brien seemingly cracked a joke about President Donald Trump's manhood — or lack thereof — during the 2026 Oscars. https://t.co/Jr1FtRdIOn
— Us Weekly (@usweekly) March 16, 2026
Kimmel used his brief time shrewdly, squeezing in as much Trump Derangement Syndrome as the format allowed. And, at this point, it might be time for an intervention. It won't come from his wife, his show's head writer and someone whose TDS might eclipse her famous hubby's.
Still, Kimmel's career will undoubtably focus on his MAGA rage from this point on. That ignores his two decades of work in the late-night trenches, one of the most challenging formats on TV. Plus, his irreverent contributions to "The Man Show" with Adam Carolla along with "Crank Yankers" gave us big belly laughs.
No, those accomplishments are dwarfed now by his Resistance shtick. And, like bell bottoms, it's guaranteed to age badly.
Why? We've already "survived" one full Trump term in office. The world didn't end. Those "Handmaid's Tale" fears didn't come to pass. And we didn't get one concentration camp built.
We're now in Year 2 of Trump's second term, and we may have a world where toxic threats from Venezuela, Iran and perhaps other global hot spots have been neutralized. We won't know how successful the President will be until 2028, but it's safe to say Kimmel's sky-is-falling rhetoric won't meet reality even if MAGA 2.0 stumbles.
And where will that leave Kimmel? Hosting a late-night show in a country that increasingly tunes out that once mighty format. That's assuming he still has the gig in 2028. ABC recently gave him a vote of low confidence by extending his current contract for a single year.
