Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently revealed that he has Italian citizenship and insinuated a potential move to Europe to escape President Trump’s “unbelievable” second term.
The 57-year-old host of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” made the revelation during a recent episode of comedian Sarah Silverman’s podcast. Silverman mentioned that “a lot” of people she knows are trying to get citizenship.
“I do have … I did get Italian citizenship… I do have that,” Kimmel replied.
“What’s going on is … as bad as you thought it was gonna be, it’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable. I feel like it’s probably even worse than [Trump] would like it to be,” he added.
Kimmel also claimed that some of Trump’s former supporters are questioning his decisions.
“There are a lot of people … now you see these clips of Joe Rogan saying, ‘Why’s he doing this? He shouldn’t be deporting people.’ People go, ‘F*** you, you supported him.’ I don’t buy into that. I don’t believe ‘F*** you, you supported him,’” he told Silverman.
“I think everybody has to… the door needs to stay open. If you want to change your mind, that’s so hard to do. If you want to admit you were wrong, that’s so hard and so rare to do. You are welcome.”
The new episode comes on the heels of Stephen Colbert’s late-night show being canceled on CBS. President Trump reacted to the news by predicting that other partisan-driven, late-night programming would also be axed, including Kimmel’s show.
“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 posted on social media last month.
“These are people with absolutely NO TALENT, who were paid Millions of Dollars for, in all cases, destroying what used to be GREAT Television. It’s really good to see them go, and I hope I played a major part in it!”
