Jimmy Kimmel's 'lowest rated President' jibe at Donald Trump

By Mudit Bhatnagar

Mar 07, 2018

03:22 pm

What's the story

Jimmy Kimmel fired back at US President Donald Trump after the latter took pot-shots at the low ratings of the 90th Academy Awards. Trump made fun of the decreased viewership of the show and reminded his Twitter followers that it was the 'lowest rated Oscars in history'. To this, an infuriated Kimmel replied with an allusion to the President's own poor ranking.

Twitter Post

Trump's dig at the Jimmy Kimmel hosted show

Lowest rated Oscars in HISTORY. Problem is, we don’t have Stars anymore - except your President (just kidding, of course)!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2018

Twitter Post

Kimmel snapped back right away

Thanks, lowest rated President in HISTORY. https://t.co/E01UgDaZ3T

— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) March 6, 2018

Details

Record-low ratings for the 2018 Oscars

Notably, this year's Academy Awards saw a drop of almost 20 percent in its ratings from 2017. As per the Neilson's ratings, the 90th-anniversary ceremony could only attract 26.5 million viewers. However, ABC pointed out that the Oscars fetched better numbers than the other major award functions such as the Grammys on CBS and Golden Globe Awards on NBC.