International Cinematographers Guild reveals Jimmy Kimmel as President’s Award Honoree

Jimmy Kimmel, the host and executive producer of Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be honoured with the President’s Award from the International Cinematographers Guild (ICG). The award will be bestowed upon him on March 13 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Jimmy Kimmel is receiving this honour due to his valiant efforts and resilience against censorship in the face of adversity. According to the ICG, they “chose to bestow this rare honour on Kimmel in recognition of his strength of character, his resilience and his unwavering adherence to principle in the face of adversity.”

While the national president of the ICG, John Lindley, said,

"“We’re thrilled to present this award to Jimmy Kimmel whose return to the air meant so much to his audience and whose presence at the International Cinematographers Guild Publicists Awards means so much to us. He stood by his staff and crew during his suspension, and we celebrate his commitment to his work and to his team.”

The censorship and adversity that is being referred to takes us back to September, when Kimmel faced suspension and possible firing after he took shots at President Donald Trump and the Charlie Kirk shooting in his monologue. The show network, ABC, has benched the host who had been hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live! since 2003, after the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, threatened to punish the network. Following that, Trump posted on Truth Social,

“Great News for America: The ratings challenged Jimmy Kimmel Show is CANCELLED. Congratulations to ABC for finally having the courage to do what had to be done. Kimmel has ZERO talent, and worse ratings than even Colbert, if that’s possible. That leaves Jimmy and Seth, two total losers, on Fake News NBC. Their ratings are also horrible. Do it NBC!!! President DJT”

Calling out other show hosts as well.

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This in no way deterred Kimmel as he kept going after the president to this day, after he was reinstated on September 23. In fact, this week, Kimmel discussed Trump's inability to stay awake during cabinet meetings as well as his 5-hour-long posting spree on his social media platform Truth Social last night, in his recent monologue.

Kimmel started, “I know I’ve said this before, but for real this time: he went completely off the rails last night. The man who is allegedly running the country banged out an onslaught of posts and reposts in a furious social media blitzkrieg that started at 7.09 pm, went nonstop until almost midnight.”

Moving on to the cabinet meetings, Jimmy continued, "Does this look like a man who is showing signs of fatigue?" while images of the president appearing to be asleep showed up, he continued, "I mean, if you can sleep through that voice, you are tired. You are fatigued. Of course he’s tired – he was up all night posting!”

He concluded the whole meeting in once single phrase,

“They have better-quality cabinets at Ikea.”

The Daily Show wasn't far behind as Desi Lydic went after War Secretary Pete Hegseth, who is being questioned for authorising strikes on supposedly suspected drug-runner boats off the coast of Venezuela, which are being construed as war crimes. Hegseth also took the jump and blamed his commander, Adm Mitch Bradley, for the entire situation.

Lydic called him out, saying,

“What a little b*tch. Blaming someone by pretending to praise them? ‘I stand by him and all the decisions he made on his own, while I was out of the room. If you want to get to him, you’re going to have to get through me – and I will let you do that.’”

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“I also love how Pete’s pre-blaming Bradley for ‘all the others since’. So yeah, things are starting to look a little dicey for the secretary of defensiveness, but Pete is fighting back the way a true warrior does: with memes.”

This situation for the past few months, has been turning into an endless cycle of hosts and comedians calling out the president and the government for their actions, or lack thereof, while DJT threatens to have their jobs, invoking censorship.

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