However, Trump hits back just as hard. On February 22, the former POTUS — who is the only U.S. president to ever be criminally charged — seemingly celebrated Kimmel’s hint at retirement.
“They could get a far more talented person, who would also get better Ratings, for 5% of what they are paying this Loser!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Later that week, Kimmel joked that he’d gotten the attention of “America’s most famous tangerine.”
“And I got to say that is a h— of a way to find out you’re not going be somebody’s running mate. He has no idea how delighted I am by something like this,” he teased. “I’m going to try to enjoy it, because he probably won’t be able to do this when they take away his phone in prison, so I’m going [to] really like, soak it in.”
