Late Night Host Jimmy Kimmel Hints He May Flee The U.S. To Avoid Trump’s Presidency

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Late-night show host Jimmy Kimmel has revealed he has obtained Italian citizenship.

Kimmel announced he had made the move due to the current policies of the Trump administration.

Fox News reported the following report on Kimmel’s move to get Italian citizenship:

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel confirmed he obtained his Italian citizenship during a discussion on people fleeing the country to escape President Donald Trump.

Kimmel shared the news while a guest on fellow comedian Sarah Silverman’s podcast Friday, as they discussed the state of the country in Trump’s second term.

“A lot of people I know are thinking about where are they going to get citizenship?” Silverman said.

“I did get Italian citizenship,” Kimmel replied.

You do? Oh, that’s amazing,” Silverman reacted.

“I do have that. And what’s going on is—as bad as you thought it was going to be — it’s so much worse. It’s just unbelievable,” Kimmel said.

“I feel like it’s even worse than he would like it to be,” he cracked.

The White House did not immediately return a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

The late-night host campaigned for Democrats in the 2024 election and has been a staunch critic of Trump over the years.

Watch Kimmel here:

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Late night host Jimmy Kimmel announces he has secured Italian citizenship – declares Donald Trump's presidency is "so much worse" than he ever imagined.

Can we hope he will ACTUALLY leave the country? pic.twitter.com/Q1cPTRlcg1

— Conservative Brief (@ConservBrief) August 9, 2025

Jimmy Kimmel says he got his Italian citizenship to possibly escape President Trump. Sounds like Italy just got their late-night problem.🇮🇹😂 pic.twitter.com/LDBPAWOLtA

— Desiree (@DesireeAmerica4) August 9, 2025

During the 2024 election, Kimmel showed support for former Kamala Harris, per Yahoo News:

Jimmy Kimmel detoured from his usual fare during his monologue on Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live.” Prior to airtime, the ABC host encouraged fans on Instagram to ask any Republican in their lives to watch, and indeed the entire monologue was devoted to a single topic: Convincing any GOP voter watching to stop supporting Donald Trump and consider voting for Kamala Harris.

From the jump, Kimmel told viewers “this is not gonna be our usual roast of Trump, or some kind of liberal virtue signaling None of that. In fact, I’m gonna open with a joke about a Democrat for a change.”

At that, Kimmel joked about President Joe Biden’s recent trip to a bank in Delaware.

Then Kimmel reintroduced himself to viewers who may have enjoyed his work prior to the vast political divides that sprung up in the last couple of decades, specifically his old TV series “The Man Show.”

“We had, we had a pretty good relationship back then. The beer, the trampolines. Good times, right? We had fun. But now times are less fun. We’re a week away from an election and we are very divided,” Kimmel said.

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Kimmel didn’t just blame Trump however. He said the division was also, “because of people like, if I’m being honest, me. I do a lot of mocking, and belittling, and it isn’t always productive. Am I biased against Donald Trump? Yes. Do I think I have good reasons for being biased against him? Yes. And I’m probably wrong, but I think when you hear some of those reasons, you may — you might agree with me, even just a little bit.”