Jimmy Kimmel Says ‘We Won, the President Lost’ in Christmas Message

Jimmy Kimmel has delivered a scathing — and sometimes comical — assault on president Donald Trump in a particular Christmas Day tackle to the U.Okay. on Channel 4.

For its 2025 annual Alternative Christmas Message, broadcast by the Brit network since 1993 with an eclectic array of visitors invited to talk over the years, Channel 4 turned to Kimmel, who used the alternative to assert that “tyranny is booming” in the U.S. because of Trump, who he said “thinks he is our king.”

Kimmel also mirrored on the controversial — and temporary — suspension of his discuss present “Jimmy Kimmel Live” from ABC after comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s homicide, accusing Trump of attempting to “shut me up because I don’t adore him in the way he likes to be adored.”

His return to airwaves he likened to an (early) “Christmas miracle,” asserting it was because people stood as much as assist free expression of speech. “Our show came back stronger than ever. We won, the President lost and now I’m back on the air every night giving the most powerful politician on earth a right and richly deserved bollocking,” he said, deploying a reasonably British time period. “That’s a word, right, I used it properly?”

Kimmel concluded his message, broadcast shortly after the more conventional King’s Christmas Day speech, by apologizing to the U.Okay. for the current state of the U.S., asserting that Americans are “not all like” Trump and urging Brits to carry out.

“No one knows better than you we’re always just a little bit late to the game, but do we come through in the end? Maybe. Give us about three years. Please.”

See the full transcript of Kimmel’s Christmas Day message below:

Hi I’m Jimmy Kimmel.

I don’t know if you already know who I’m, however I used to be requested to ship this 12 months’s Alternative Christmas Message (which I’ve heard is a big deal) so I hope you do, but when not I host what you name a chat present (we name it a chat present) in what you name the colonies, I feel? I truthfully don’t know what’s occurring over there.

I do know what’s occurring over right here though, and I can let you know that, from a fascism perspective, this has been a very nice 12 months. Tyranny is booming over right here.

You might have read in your vibrant newspapers my nation’s President wish to shut me up because I don’t adore him in the method he likes to be adored. The American authorities made a risk against me and the company I work for, and abruptly we have been off the air. But then, you already know what occurred? A Christmas miracle occurred. Well, it was September, it was a September miracle. But the vacation does appear to return earlier and earlier every 12 months, doesn’t it?

Millions and hundreds of thousands of people stood up and said: ‘No, this is not acceptable’. People who never watched my present, people who have been on file saying they hate my present spoke out, they marched, they did this all to assist the proper to a free expression of speech and because so many people spoke out, we got here again. Our present got here again stronger than ever. We gained, the President misplaced and now I’m again on the air every night time givin’ the most highly effective politician on earth a proper and hard-earned bollocking. That’s a phrase, proper, I used it correctly?

And the motive I’m telling you this story is because possibly you’re considering: ‘Oh a government silencing its critics is something that happens in places like Russia, or North Korea, or LA, not the UK’. Well, that’s what we thought and now we’ve obtained King Donny the Eighth calling for executions. It occurs fast.

You understand it’s humorous we Americans are very happy with not having a king. It’s type of why we left. Earlier this 12 months tens of hundreds of thousands of us marched at protests called No Kings. You had some of those there. And just for the file now we have nothing against your king. I imply I don’t know if you already know this, however his son lives right here. We just – nicely some of us – just have an issue with the man who thinks he’s our king.

Here in the United States proper now we’re each figuratively and actually tearing down the buildings of our democracy. From the free press, to science, to drugs, to judicial independence, to the precise White House itself, we’re a proper mess. And we all know this is also affecting you, and I just wished to make an apology. And we would like you to know or, no less than I need you to know, that we’re not all like him. We’re not all like that.

Look I do know (from the musical Hamilton) that our international locations didn’t start off on the best notice, however I also know (from seeing Love Actually) that now we have a particular relationship. So, if I’d communicate on behalf of my nation – which I most definitely don’t – our message to you, our mates across the pond this Christmas is: don’t hand over on us. We’re going by a little bit of a wobble proper now, however we’ll come round. It might not appear to be it, however we love you guys. We even love the issues about you that you don’t like, like Simon Cowell as an example. We should not brilliant. We’re Americans. No one is aware of better than you we’re always just somewhat bit late to the game, however can we come by in the end? Maybe. Give us about three years. Please. Thank you in your endurance, and thanks for Spider-Man. Merry Christmas, and joyful holidays.