The 98th annual Academy Awards took place on Sunday night. There, the late night host Jimmy Kimmel let his Trump derangement syndrome show yet again by stopping the ceremony to viciously mock First Lady Melania Trump.
Unfortunately for Kimmel, however, it didn’t take long for this to backfire on him.
Kimmel Takes Shot At Melania
Kimmel was onstage at the Oscars to announce the winner of the Best Documentary Short and Best Documentary Feature categories. Before announcing the former, Kimmel attempted to mock Melania’s eponymous documentary that was released by Amazon back in January.
“There are also documentaries where you walk around the White House trying on shoes,” Kimmel said.
When Kimmel took the stage again to announce Best Documentary Feature, he lashed out at the Trumps once again.
“Oh man, is he gonna be mad his wife wasn’t nominated for this,” Kimmel said. This was obviously a tasteless swipe at President Donald Trump.
This Backfires On Kimmel
Unfortunately for Kimmel, however, the Trumps aren’t giving him the attention that he so-clearly craves from them. Instead, the top White House aide Stephen Cheung is firing back at Kimmel. Indeed, Cheung is hitting him right where it hurts in the process.
“Jimmy Kimmel (Mr. Blackface) is a classless hack who is self-projecting his depression and sadness onto others,” Cheung wrote on X the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “He lives a pathetic existence where nobody— not even his family— enjoys his miserable company.”
“Mr. Blackface” is a reference to Kimmel wearing blackface. He did so while portraying the NBA star Karl Malone in a Comedy Central sketch back in the early 2000s. Though Kimmel has apologized for this many times over the years, it continues to come back to haunt him. Many have pointed out that Kimmel and his fellow liberal elites of Hollywood would be the first to forever “cancel” a conservative who was caught wearing blackface.
“The only people giving him any attention are Hollywood Elites. BUH-BYE,” Cheung concluded.
More Fails For Kimmel Involving Melania
It should be noted that Kimmel’s jab at Melania’s documentary not being nominated doesn’t even make sense, given that it was never eligible to be nominated this year in the first place. In order to be eligible for the 2026 Oscars, movies had to be released between January 1 and December 31 of the previous year.
The 2026 Oscar nominations were announced on January 22 of this year. This was over a week before the release of Melania, which came out on January 30. Perhaps Kimmel should get his facts straight about the Oscar nomination process before he tries to use his time at the ceremony to bash the first lady again.
Hollywood had scoffed at Melania from the time it was announced, predicting that it would be a huge flop. This left the liberal elites of Hollywood both shocked and enraged when Melania smashed its dismal box office sales estimates in its opening weekend.
Melania ultimately earned $7 million in ticket sales across the United States and Canada. This made it the best-performing theatrical release for a documentary since 2012, with the only exception of concert films.
Kimmel likely felt the need to mock Melania’s documentary because its success highlights just how out of touch that he and his fellow Hollywood elites are with the American people. Nice try, but your attempts to mock Melania were yet another fail for you!