Dear Britain: things are bad, but America will recover from Donald Trump. Just give us three years | Jimmy Kimmel

I have no idea if you know who I am, but I was asked to deliver this year’s alternative Christmas message (which I’ve heard is a big deal) so I hope you do, but if not I host what you call a chatshow (we call it a talkshow) in what you call the colonies, I think? I honestly have no idea what’s going on over there. Donald Trump announces the Navy's ‘Golden Fleet’ at Mar-a-lago in Palm Beach, Florida 22 December 2025.Photograph: Jessica Koscielniak/Reuters Jimmy Kimmel delivering Channel 4’s 2025 alternative Christmas message.Photograph: Channel 4/PA US presidential candidate Donald Trump appearing on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, 16 December 2015.Photograph: Randy Holmes/Getty Images I do know what’s going on over here though, and I can tell you that, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Tyranny is booming over here. You may have read in your colourful newspapers that my country’s president would like to shut me up - because I don’t adore him in the way he likes to be adored. The American government made a threat against me and the company I work for, and all of a sudden we were off the air . But then, you know what happened? A Christmas miracle happened. Well, it was September. It was a September miracle. But the holiday does seem to come earlier and earlier every year, doesn’t it? Millions and millions of people stood up and said: “No, this is not acceptable.” People who never watched my show, people who were on record saying they hate my show spoke out, they marched . They did this all to support the right to a free expression of speech - and because so many people spoke out, we came back. Our show came back stronger than ever . We won, the president lost - and now I’m back on the air every night, givin’ the most powerful politician on Earth a right, and richly deserved, bollocking. That’s a word, right - I used it properly? And the reason I’m telling you this story is because maybe you’re thinking: “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 got King Donny the Eighth calling for executions . It happens fast. You know, it’s funny, we Americans are very proud of not having a king. It’s kind of why we left. Earlier this year tens of millions of us marched at protests called No Kings . You had some of those there. And just for the record we have nothing against your king. I mean I don’t know if you know this, but his son lives here . We just - well some of us - have a problem with the guy who thinks he is our king. Here in the United States right now, we are both figuratively and literally tearing down the structures of our democracy....

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