Trump WH Staff Called Disney to Issue Demand Regarding Jimmy Kimmel: Report
Former President Donald Trump grew frustrated with a late-night comedian and told his staff to demand Disney take action against him, according to a report. On Sunday, Rolling Stone reported that two former Trump…
Former President Donald Trump grew frustrated with a late-night comedian and told his staff to demand Disney take action against him, according to a report.
On Sunday, Rolling Stone reported that two former Trump administration officials say the former president was extremely upset about Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes in 2018. He told his staff at the White House to phone one of the top executives at Disney to demand the company do something about it.
The former officials told the outlet, in at least two different phone calls that occurred around the time Trump was completing the first year of his presidency, the White House expressed the weight of Trump’s anger with Kimmel.
Trump’s staff explained he wanted Disney to “rein in” the host.
They also reportedly said Trump felt Kimmel had, according to one former senior administration official, been “very dishonest and doing things that would have once sued over,” as Rolling Stone reported.
According to the report, other officials of the Trump administration who had nothing to do with the matter began hearing from individuals at Disney about how they were confused that the “White House kept telling them Trump wanted Kimmel to tone down his anti-Trump humor.”
A third former official told Rolling Stone, “At least one call was made to Disney .”
The former official added, “I do not know to who, but it happened. Nobody thought it was going to change anything but DJT was focused on it so we had to do something…It was doing something, mostly, to say to , ‘Hey, we did this.’”