Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center Honors last night, vowing to keep it loose and relaxed as he honored KISS and other luminaries. That means “maybe I haven’t prepared,” he admitted on the red carpet, according to Deadline. But that free and easy style has worked for others in the past. “If you look at the great hosts, Johnny Carson, Bob Hope, those are the greats,” he said. “If you look at the not-so-greats, like Jimmy Kimmel, he was terrible.”
Trump told reporters that he’d “watched some of the people that host” the show in the past, naming Kimmel in particular as “horrible.”
For the record, Kimmel has never hosted the ceremony.
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Despite that inconvenient fact, Trump assured everyone that he’d do a much better job as Kennedy Center Honors host than the late-night comic. “If I can’t beat out Jimmy Kimmel in terms of talent, then I don’t think I should be president,” he said, per Entertainment Weekly.
It’s just the latest chapter in one of the weirdest feuds in political/entertainment history, one in which Kimmel has taken up a permanent, rent-free existence inside the President’s head.
The actual ceremony had a few hiccups, including Trump “accidentally” referring to the building as “The Trump Kennedy Center.” It’s a new name he’s suggested in the past (often without the ‘Kennedy’), each mention feeling like a trial balloon to see if anyone would mind if he slapped his name on the marquee.
Trump wasn’t exactly channeling his inner Johnny Carson when he addressed the entertainment professionals in the room. “Many of you are miserable, horrible people,” he said, although he also faint-praised them as persistent. “You never give up. Sometimes I wish you’d give up, but you don’t.”
The President doesn’t expect reviewers to give him props for his hosting job. “I guarantee the fake news is going to give me horrible reviews. ‘He was horrible as an MC. Don’t ever let that happen again. Don’t ever let it happen,” he speculated. “But I guarantee you one thing, we get big ratings tonight.”
Those big ratings didn’t happen — mainly because the show, in edited version, won’t be broadcast until December 23.
Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, KISS, Gloria Gaynor and Michael Crawford received awards this weekend, a group of winners that Trump was “98 percent” involved in choosing. More likely, he had a hand in deciding who would not be receiving honors. He says he disqualified several candidates who “were too woke.”
Given Trump’s involvement, it’s a wonder that KISS — “one of the greatest rock and roll institutions” — was chosen over the Village People, architects of his favorite dance anthem, “YMCA.” Then again, we would have been deprived of the President singing along to KISS’s “Shout It Out Loud.” That actually happened, a WTF musical moment that may well deliver the big ratings Trump is promising later this month.
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