Sean Hannity’s tweet was only the start of several attacks against Jimmy Kimmel. In the days after Kimmel’s comments about Melania Trump, Hannity championed the rediscovery of several of Kimmel’s past indiscretions, including a raunchy comic set where he propositioned women to touch him intimately. The clips originated from a time when Kimmel worked on “The Man Show,” which previously aired on Comedy Central. “I don’t take joy in this, but I have just had it with the unrelenting hypocrisy,” Hannity said at the time, according to CBS News. “It’s way bigger than Sean Hannity and Jimmy Kimmel.” Hannity also compared Kimmel to disgraced Hollywood executive, Harvey Weinstein.
While Kimmel initially indulged in his feud with Hannity, he eventually issued a lukewarm apology to the then-current first lady. “I will take Sean Hannity at his word that he was genuinely offended by what I believed and still believe to be a harmless and silly aside referencing our First Lady’s accent,” Kimmel tweeted in April of 2018, notes USA Today. Kimmel also threw in a subtle jab at Hannity. “Mrs. Trump almost certainly has enough to worry about without being used as a prop to increase TV ratings.”
