{
  "id": 3111725,
  "title": "How Jimmy Kimmel and Wife Molly McNearney Explained Trump’s Hate to Their Children",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/how-jimmy-kimmel-and-wife-molly-mcnearney-explained-trumps-hate-to",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-24T20:57:39.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TheWrap",
    "slug": "thewrap",
    "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/business/jimmy-kimmel-molly-mcnearney-kids-donald-trump-hate-explained/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Jimmy Kimmel and his wife Molly McNearney have been accustomed to engaging in public feuds with President Trump, but teaching their children about the president's dislike for them is a new experience. On the \"Armchair Expert\" podcast, Kimmel and McNearney discussed a particularly stressful period in 2021 when their talk show, \"Jimmy Kimmel Live!,\" was briefly taken off the air. Explaining this to their children, Jane and Billy, was a difficult conversation, especially as the children were still in school and the situation was becoming a major news story. McNearney recalled Jane asking if the cancellation was President Trump's fault, to which the couple responded affirmatively. Kimmel added that it was both surprising and amusing to think about their kids growing up with a President who doesn't like their father. What surprised Kimmel most, however, was learning that their 12-year-old daughter Jane was upset because she believed she would one day inherit her parents' late-night show. This was never even discussed, but Jane had assumed she would take over the family business. After the show returned to air, both President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump called for Kimmel to be pulled from the air following a shooting during the White House Correspondents' Dinner in April. Kimmel joked about Melania's \"glow like an expectant widow\" a week before the shooting attempt.",
  "summary": "\"I said to Jimmy the other day, 'What a wild childhood for these kids to know that the President of the United States doesn't like their father,'\" the ABC late night EP recalls The post How Jimmy Kimmel and Wife Molly McNearney Explained Trump’s Hate to Their Children appeared first on TheWrap .",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}