War of Words Escalates Between Trump, Kimmel: ‘I’ll Go When You Go’

Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel used President Donald Trump’s own words against him — “quiet, piggy.” Kimmel spent part of his monologue on Thursday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! ”slamming the president who responded to…

Sandra RhodesNov 21, 20252 min read

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“I think this is interesting, at 12:49 a.m., 11 minutes after the show ended on the East Coast, which is nice. He watches us live,” Kimmel continued. “Hi, Mr. President. How are you? Thanks for watching us on TV instead of on YouTube. We appreciate that. And I’ll tell you, it’s viewers like you who keep us on the air – ironically.”

The host added how Trump has continually tried to get him fired.

“I mean, talk about a snowflake, this guy. Every five weeks, he flips out and wants me fired,” Kimmel said. “If you got this many threats from a neighbor, you’d have no problem getting a restraining order. The judge would be like, ‘Yeah, sounds like the guy’s nuts.’ Boom.”

“You tried to get me fired in September. It didn’t work,” Kimmel continued. “Mr. President – I admire your tenacity.”

Kimmel was briefly taken off the air in September when he commented on his perception of MAGA’s response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel suggested Thursday that the two could “ride off into the sunset together.”

“I’ll go when you go. We’ll be a team. Let’s ride off into the sunset together – like Butch Cassidy and the Suntan Kid,” Kimmel said.

“And until then, “If I may borrow a phrase from you: Quiet, Piggy!” he added, referring to words Trump used when talking to Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey.

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