Academy Awards politics: Kimmel roasts Trump - POLITICO
Kimmel roasts Trump at mixed-up Academy Awards He also paid tribute to the 'overrated' Meryl Streep in a ceremony that ended with the wrong film being named best picture. Academy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel told a worldwide audience Sunday night he was awaiting President Donald Trump's tweets in response to the Oscar ceremony — after calling the president racist in his opening monologue and implying that hundreds of countries "now hate us." The high-energy ceremony ended, oddly enough, with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway reading the wrong film's name for the winner for Best Picture. As the cast and crew of "La La Land" was basking in the glow of victory, the mistake was corrected and the award was then correctly presented to "Moonlight," sparking a rapid-fire run of Twitter jokes about one of the president's favorite phrases: "fake news." Story Continued Below Kimmel had joked earlier: "We have no tolerance for fake news. Fake tans we love, but fake news?Read full article from Academy Awards politics: Kimmel roasts Trump - POLITICO
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