Jimmy Kimmel took time at the Oscars to tweet at Donald Trump
President Donald Trump has yet to tweet about this year's Academy Awards.
It's a departure from his usual Oscars Twitter strategy, which essentially involves scream-tweeting about how much he hates the show.
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For example:
This cannot be the the Academy Awards #Oscars AWFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 3, 2014
In hopes of getting Trump's opinion of this year's show, Oscars host Jimmy Kimmel carved some time out to egg on Trump via Trump's favorite medium.
Hey @realDonaldTrump u up?
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 27, 2017
— Jimmy Kimmel (@jimmykimmel) February 27, 2017
Kimmel trolls Trump #Oscars pic.twitter.com/3kaoWUboFM
— Mashable (@mashable) February 27, 2017
It worked out well for Kimmel's social media presence, the tweet quickly out-performed all of his other bits of witticisms.
It took less than 15 minutes for this to become @jimmykimmel's most RT'd Tweet ever #Oscars https://t.co/AfXIUY0G5J
— Twitter Data (@TwitterData) February 27, 2017
Considering Trump has a tough time handling Hollywood criticism, we'd guess a presidential Twitter meltdown is forthcoming.