Jimmy Kimmel's Trump Obsession Let POTUS 45 Steal The Oscars

There’s a pithy saying that goes, “Don’t write a cheque with your mouth that you can’t back up with your ass”. In short, talk is cheap, action is difficult and dangerous.

Then there is Jimmy Kimmel, the former comedian who now fancies himself as the Ché Guevara of late-night. Whereas Ché was willing to face guns in the Bolivian forests, Kimmel’s idea of bravery is to face a friendly Hollywood audience of fake teeth, fake breasts and a lot of private-security guns. 

Even there he fails. Kimmel’s boldest move as host on Sunday was to show his blackface NBA spoof. Actually he’s burying that. No, he inadvertently allowed Donald Trump, the Lex Luthor of Hollywood’s donor class, to steal the show from its putative stars— the films, the actors and the directors of the ultra-liberal Academy. Selfishly interrupting the show (after being asked not to) to read a live Trump online rant about Kimmel’s lame performance he affirmed what everyone knows: Trump has built a hotel inside the head of every SJW. He owns them. See here.

Of course his fans in the cushy seats thought Jimmy was schooling Trump. Neither they nor Kimmel will never acknowledge or even realize his gaffe. His butt will be full of the hot air only Mark Ruffalo and Bobby DeNiro can pump out to fellow travellers. Self-congratulation is an art form on the Left. Witness Conan O’Brien’s celebration of Haiti recovery efforts from 2016 earthquake  where about $13.3 B was pledged by the Clinton Foundation— and quickly vanished into other hands. Clinton is now a swear word in Haiti, not that it will hurt Slick Willie and Hilarity when they show up in Bel Air for more cheques.

What sort of people does he minister to? On the Hollywood 10-point scale of virtue, overcoming drug addiction is 11. It's a celebration of first-world mortification. Naturally, Robert Downey Jr. warranted an Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer to honour the 10-steppers in the crowd. Leading Kimmel to reference Downey’s past problems. "Is that too on-the-nose, or is that a drug motion you're making?" Kimmel said to Downey who replied, "Keep it going, keep it going”.

Was it just us or did you get the impression that Kimmel and the other fatuous pantloads at the Oscars are going to be simply crushed if Donald Trump as President doesn't actually incarcerate them? You could tell from their nervous, ‘Midnight Express for liberal-arts grads’ laughter the thrill they get from the “risk” they think they are taking on. Luckily they’ll all have Canada as a fall back, just as in those brave  2016 refusniks.

Perhaps no example of extinction-level hypocrisy has been more illustrative than deep blue American cities like NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Washington proudly declaring themselves as “sanctuary cities” for those looking to escape the “terror” of Trump’s border policy. Strutting like so many Jimmy Kimmel’s they cited the words on the Statue of Liberty about “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.”

So the governors of southern states choked with the products of Joe Biden’s line-forms-to-the-right border policy took them up on that. They sent the poor, huddled masses yearning to breathe free on buses to the sanctuary cities. Where the reaction was, “Whoa, what made you think we were serious about that sanctuary shit?”

Faster than you could say Alejandro Mayorkas, those cities were chucking the undocumented illegals back out of town (neighbouring cities who’d made no sanctuary offer refused NYC’s huddled masses). The not-really-illegals they couldn’t slough off were given full benefits and hotel rooms at no expense from the state. Who, all the while, cry to Uncle Joe for millions to make their sanctuary status go away. 

Of course, Canadians have the gold standard in “Do as I say, not as I do”. A recitation of Justin Trudeau’s Theatre of the Ridiculous would take days. No one lowers the bar faster and is forgiven even faster than the trust-fund cult member with a 34 percent approval. He probably watched Kimmel pandering to the cross-dressing, botoxxers yearning to seize free goody bags and said, “Hold my craft beer.”

No one has written a bigger cheque with no funds behind it than Trudeau on his visit to the indigenous cemetery in B.C. choked with the bodies of babies massacred by the Catholic priests. Clutching a teddy bear, he knelt in this scene of carnage, the Dolorosa Dude readying to tell the UN his nation conducted genocide on these babies.

Except that there are no murdered babies. He’s been told as much. There were white people also buried in the cemetery. But having bought the line fed to him by radicals in his cabinet and the native community about murder in the dark by Rez Schools, he saw no need to exhume anyone or anything. He’d decided, and that was enough for the Canadian people and the Canadian media who are taking his bribes.

For those who might demur, he’s cranked up Bill C-63 to criminalize doubt about his omnipotence now— and in the future. His Bagdad Bob minister is currently spelling out the penalties. Like Keith Olbermann he will know the evildoers in the future so we can put them under arrest today. Tidy, eh? Kimmel wishes he had such power.  Because it’s so easy to write cheques with the mouth.

Bruce Dowbiggin @dowbboy is the editor of Not The Public Broadcaster  A two-time winner of the Gemini Award as Canada's top television sports broadcaster, he’s a regular contributor to Sirius XM Canada Talks Ch. 167. Inexact Science: The Six Most Compelling Draft Years In NHL History, his new book with his son Evan, was voted the seventh-best professional hockey book of all time by bookauthority.org . His 2004 book Money Players was voted sixth best on the same list, and is available via brucedowbigginbooks.ca.