Trump on Kimmel Reading His TRUTH Social Post: He’s ‘Dumber than I Thought,’ the Thing Went Viral

KURTZ: “Because during the Academy Awards, you posted, ‘Has there ever been a worst host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars? Less than an average person trying too hard.’ He then read that on the air and then took a crack at you — “
Trump: “What else did I say? I said some other pretty good things.”
KURTZ: “Were you getting even with him for all he said about Trump?”
Trump: “George Slopodopoulos, right? Now, look, look, Jimmy Kimmel, every night he hits me. His ratings are terrible. He’s not a talented guy. I hear he hits me all the time, so I figured I’d hit him because I thought he was a lousy host. Now, I put it out on TRUTH, which is on fire, by the way, Truth Social is doing great. I never expected he was going to be reading it — just prior to the Movie of the Year, which is the big one, right? That’s the big one. I think they get the man, the woman, now the movie of the year. He reads my ‘Truth’ on air, he reads exactly what you read, and now the big story is that they all begged him not to do it, ‘Don’t do it,’ and he probably stupidly — you know, he had to act in a short period of time, like minutes, right? He had minutes because he’s on air. He sees this thing and he wants to go out there and he wants to, I guess, confront me. And he ends up reading my truth. I said, ‘This guy’s even dumber than I thought.’ The thing went viral. It’s been all over the world now, and all he had to do was keep his mouth shut.”
KURTZ: “Donald Trump, thanks very much for sitting down with us here at Mar-a-Lago.”
Trump: “Thank you very much.”