Donald Trump Jr slams Jimmy Kimmel, asks how the comedian gets to keep his job amid N-word controversy
President Donald Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, slammed late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel on Monday, June 22, over his use of the N-word in 1996 and questioned how does the comedian get to keep his job with the ABC Network despite it.
"To be clear, I’m 100% against punishing comedians for jokes, even bad jokes from unfunny hack comedians like Jimmy Kimmel… but according to the left’s own woke rules that @jimmykimmel wants to force others to live by, it’s hard to see how @ABCNetwork allows him to keep his show," Trump Jr tweeted.
Kimmel faced heavy backlash shortly after audio from a 2013 podcast surfaced on social media, where Kimmel admitted to having used the N-word in 1996 while he was initiating Snoop Dogg for a Christmas song. The talk show host, in the same interview, also imitated black comedian George Wallace by altering his speech pattern.
Multiple Twitter users slammed Kimmel, with one writing: "Jimmy Kimmel turned using the N-word into an art, he said it more times in one tape than Snoop Dogg did in his entire career," said another. "Cancel this racist." While another wrote: "So Jimmy Kimmel says the N-word, acts in blackface, AND makes light of sexual exploitation of women?" wrote another Twitter user. "This is your king?"
The latter was referring to another controversy Kimmel has found himself in this week. Another old clip from Kimmel's talk show resurfaced on social media, featuring Megan Fox who recounted her experience with director Michael Bay while she was a teenager, working as an extra on Bad Boys II. The actress said in a shot she was not allowed to be at the bar because she was 15, so Bay instead made her dress in a bikini and heels and get soaking wet.
"[Bay's] solution to that problem was to then have me dancing under a waterfall getting soaking wet," Fox says in the clip. "At 15, I was in 10th grade. That's sort of a microcosm of how Bay's mind works." To which Kimmel responded with: "Well that's really a microcosm of how all our minds work, but some of us have the decency to repress those thoughts and pretend that they don't exist."
The comedian was denounced on social media for his response to Fox's revelation: "What an utterly disgusting take by Kimmel. Why is, 'I'm so sorry that happened to you', something that is beyond his imagination to say," one Twitter user wrote. "Instead he offers, 'We all have those thoughts, but we repress them'. God damn, she was 15. Who the Hell is 'We'?"
"Maybe its [sic] just me but Jimmy Kimmel saying the N word shouldn't be getting more attention than him laughing about a 15-year-old girl speaking out about how she was abused by a film director and sexualized," stated a Twitter user.
There were many people who also called for Kimmel to be replaced as the host of this year's Emmy Awards. One Twitter user wrote: "Kevin hart had to give up hosting the Oscars for decade-old tweets yet jimmy kimmel did multiple sketches in blackface & gets to host the 2020 Emmys. huh." While another said: "Okay. Jimmy Kimmel using the N-word in a song he recorded in 1996. Y’all forgave him for doing blackface, but at this point, he needs to lose that Emmy’s gig and some sponsorships. He’s never had to face consequences and he needs to."