Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel made a sarcastic promise aimed at President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump, saying he would gladly put himself back into a situation that once enraged Trump but only if something very unlikely happens.
While talking on his show, Kimmel mentioned that the new documentary about Melania Trump actually performed better than expected at the box office, bringing in about $7 million over its opening weekend. He used the moment to poke fun at the project, joking that it was the biggest opening for what he described as a self-promotional film or corporate favor in the past decade. He also pointed out that Amazon reportedly spent around $75 million on producing, promoting, and distributing the movie.
Critically, the film hasn’t done well. It currently holds a very low 6 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, but Kimmel joked that it seems to be getting perfect praise on Fox News. He singled out network personality Kayleigh McEnany, who enthusiastically suggested the film deserves an Oscar nomination.
That idea gave Kimmel an opening for a bold, tongue-in-cheek challenge. He told his audience that if the Melania documentary ever does get nominated for an Academy Award, he will host the Oscars whether the organizers invite him or not. He said he would personally insist on taking the job.
Kimmel has hosted the Academy Awards four times already, and his time on that stage has not always gone down well with Trump. One moment in particular caused lasting anger.
During the 2024 Oscars, Trump sent an insulting message about Kimmel while the show was still live. Instead of ignoring it, Kimmel read the message out loud on stage and joked that he was surprised Trump was still awake watching television. He followed it up with a sharp line asking whether it wasn’t already past Trump’s jail time. That joke struck a nerve, and Trump spent much of the following year repeatedly complaining about it at campaign events.
Kimmel later revealed that he was offered the chance to host the ceremony again in 2025 but chose to turn it down. Still, he suggested there’s now a slim possibility he could return in 2027 especially if things continue in their current absurd direction.
To underline the joke, Kimmel ended by saying everyone already knows how this story would end anyway, with Melania somehow winning the first-ever best actress award from FIFA. The comment was a reference to the organization recently giving Trump its first-ever “FIFA Peace Prize,” a decision that sparked an ethics complaint and raised eyebrows around the world.
The remarks were part of Kimmel’s Monday night monologue, where he leaned fully into satire, mixing real events with exaggerated humor to highlight what he sees as the increasingly strange overlap between politics, media praise, and celebrity culture.
