Is Donald Trump or Jimmy Kimmel More Popular? New Poll Has Clear Winner
In news that is sure to inspire another Truth Social rant from the President, a new YouGov poll shows that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel is more popular than Donald Trump.
The poll was conducted amid Kimmel’s return to late-night following his temporary suspension. On September 17, ABC and Disney pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air amid backlash over comments the comedian made on-air about the fatal shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
At the time, Trump celebrated Kimmel’s suspension, blasting the late-night host as unfunny and untalented, and claiming ABC had “fired” him due to poor ratings. Kimmel returned to TV on Tuesday, September 22, after Disney and ABC ended the suspension amid backlash over censoring free speech and threats to boycott the company.
As reported by Newsweek, the latest YouGov poll shows Kimmel’s favorability rating is 16 points higher than Trump’s. This is based on 44 per cent of respondents saying they had a favorable view of Kimmel, with 41 per cent saying they viewed him unfavorably. This left the comedian with a net approval rating of +3 percentage points.
On the other hand, Trump earned an approval rating of 41 per cent of respondents, while 54 per cent said they viewed him unfavorably. This resulted in a net approval rating of -13 percentage points, 16 points fewer than Kimmel.
Kimmel addressed the Kirk controversy when he returned to late-night on September 22, telling viewers, “I do want to make something clear, because it’s important to me as a human, and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man. I don’t think there’s anything funny about it.”
However, the host hasn’t let up on his criticism of Trump, which has only continued to irk the President.
“I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!” Trump wrote on Truth Social after Kimmel’s return to the airwaves.
He added, “Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his ‘talent’ was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who’s not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99 percent positive Democrat GARBAGE.”
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I'm sure "SNL", Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and, especially, Stephen Colbert are way more popular than Trump as well, that's for sure!
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Make Kimmel President, who says Sorry when he makes mistakes, unlike a certain Mob Boss Leader.
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Kimmel more popular than the Orange Man-Baby... file this under "duh." In other news, the sky is blue and water is wet. 😂
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Jimmy Kimmel rocks
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Kimmel For President! YEAHhhhhhhh!
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Lots of stupid people.
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In Trump's cabinet? Yeah, I agree!
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after seen older videos of kimmel being a total sleazeball towards women, the woke crowd who supported him proved once again how much of huge hypocrites & liars they are to get their way. they would do anything to keep their propaganda lying douche on air to push their woke agendas.
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Is there anyone on earth that actually like the orange man baby or are they just playing the cult game ?
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According to LateNighter.com citing Nielsen Live+3 data for the week of December 14 to 20, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" averaged 2.33 million viewers... while Fox News' "Gutfeld!" averaged 2.69 million viewers. So Greg Gutfeld is more popular than Jimmy Kimmel. And Greg Gutfeld is a nobody, compared to Donald Trump, as Fox News has been rejected by most Trump supporters since 2021 when Fox frequently did not agree with Trump's views on election interference.
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At this juncture into the second term, the head executive is more infamous than Jimmy K is famous.
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Definitely Kimmel!
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‘Who is more valuable to the world: Antifa Kimmel or President Trump
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Arlington cemetery is full of antifa heroes fighting against Fascists ,that is what antifa means..
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lol. Lies
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As far as popularity goes, Meyers Fallon, Colbert, I can't remember the names of the satirists on SNL who have a "news report" are much more popular than Kimmel or Trump
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