American television moderator, producer, screenwriter, comedian and actor Jimmy Kimmel, who is a long -time critic of US President Donald Trump, has won Italian citizenship. He was also awarded him because his grandmother was a Italian, Guardian, writes TASR.
In an interview with Sarah Silverman Kimmel, he confirmed this report. According to the Italian news agency ANSA Kimmel, it acquired Italian citizenship earlier this year after he proved his Italian origin.
Kimmel publicly spoke about his origin in June, when he performed at the event of the Day of the Italian Republic in Los Angeles. He told the audience that his grandfather’s parents moved to New York from the island of Ischia off the coast of Naples, after the earthquake in 1883, which killed most of their family. At the same time, he said that Italian citizenship was acquired thanks to his grandmother Edith, whose family came from Candida, Avellino province in Campania in the south of Italy.
Kimmel is a group of night -time moderators – including John Oliver, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert – who regularly use their shows as a platform for criticism of Trump’s administration.
“What (in the US) is bad. It’s even worse, it’s just incredible.“Kimmel said in connection with Trump’s work as President of the US. He added, however, that he is not yet planning to leave the United States.
A few weeks ago, Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that Jimmy Kimmel’s night show will be canceled, like Stephen Colbert show, which will end in May 2026.The rumor has spread, and it is a great rumor that Jimmy Kimmel will be another one who will be eliminated in the contest of worthless ‘night shows’, and shortly afterwards (Jimmy) Fallon (“The Tonight Show”) will also leave. They are people without absolutely no talent. ”
After Donald Trump’s arrival in the White House in January 2025, several American celebrities applied for another nationality and many moved from the US: for example, TV presenter and actress Rosie O’Donnell, who now lives in Ireland or moderator Ellen Degeneres, who moved to the United Kingdom after Trump. “Everything is much better here,” she said at a press conference in Cheltenham on July 20.
