Donald Trump was so upset by the jokes late-night host Jimmy Kimmel made about him while he was in office that he reached out to parent company Disney about it, according to a report.
One former senior official within the Trump administration told Rolling Stone that Mr. Trump felt in 2018 that the comedian was being “very dishonest and doing things that [Trump] would have once sued over.”
“I do not know to whom, but it happened,” an unnamed source told the magazine. “Nobody thought it was going to change anything but [Trump] was focused on it so we had to do something … It was doing something, mostly, to say to [Trump], ‘Hey, we did this.’” Mr. Kimmel, for his part, talked about how ABC executives did tell him to ease up on targeting Mr. Trump. The comedian said he contemplated quitting the show if they were serious about the request.
Mr. Trump’s interest in using his executive powers to target late-night hosts has been well documented.
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