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Publication Date: August 13, 2025 - 14:59
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel reveals he has Italian citizenship
August 13, 2025
American TV host and comedian Jimmy Kimmel revealed that he has Italian citizenship while talking about Americans fleeing the country, on his recent participation on The Sarah Silverman Podcast.
During the podcast episode, Silverman, a fellow comedian, was talking about how a lot of people she knows are thinking about which countries they could get citizenship from in order to leave the U.S. over unhappiness with U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
That is when Kimmel said he had Italian citizenship.
“I did get Italian citizenship. I do have that,” Kimmel said. “What’s going on is … as bad as you thought it was gonna be, it’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable. I feel like it’s probably even worse than (Trump) would like it to be.”
Kimmel has been a longtime critic of the Trump administration and has attended protests against Trump this year.
Despite that, Kimmel also said that he believes that people who once supported Trump and have now changed their minds should not be condemned.
“The door needs to stay open,” Kimmel said. “If you want to change your mind, that’s so hard to do. If you want to admit you were wrong, that’s so hard and so rare to do, you are welcome.”
This comes almost a month after CBS announced “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” got cancelled, and Trump suggested that Kimmel was next.
“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even less talent than Colbert! Greg Gutfeld is better than all of them combined, including the Moron on NBC who ruined the once great Tonight Show,” Trump said on a post on Truth Social.
(The Tonight Show is hosted by Jimmy Fallon.)
To that, Kimmel posted on Instagram “I’m hearing you’re next. Or maybe it’s just another wonderful secret.” This refers to Trump’s relation to Jeffrey Epstein, and the phrase he wrote to Epstein on his 50th birthday in 2003.
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