Dear Britain: things are bad, but America will recover from Donald Trump. Just give us three years - Jimmy Kimmel

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This is the transcript of Jimmy's Channel 4 alternative Christmas message.

Just click the link below to read the entire transcript - no paywall - instead of my excerpt below, which includes the last three paragraphs.

The channel 4 website - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/alternative-christmas-message - has video of the message, but you have to sign in, they want a lot of info, and I didn't finish signing in because I don't know if you can watch in the States anyway.

But the transcript is at

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/25/jimmy-kimmel-christmas-message-trump

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I do know what’s going on over here though, and I can tell you that, from a fascism perspective, this has been a really great year. Tyranny is booming over here.

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You know, it’s funny, we Americans are very proud of not having a king. It’s kind of why we left. Earlier this year tens of millions of us marched at protests called No Kings. You had some of those there. And just for the record we have nothing against your king. I mean I don’t know if you know this, but his son lives here. We just – well some of us – have a problem with the guy who thinks he is our king.

Here in the United States right now, we are both figuratively and literally tearing down the structures of our democracy. From the free press, to science, to medicine, to judicial independence, to the actual White House itself, we are a right mess. And we know this is also affecting you, and I just wanted to say sorry. And we want you to know or, at least I want you to know, that we’re not all like him. We’re not all like that.

Look I know (from the musical Hamilton) that our countries didn’t start off on the greatest note, but I also know (from seeing Love Actually) that we have a special relationship. So, if I might speak on behalf of my country – which I most certainly do not – our message to you, our friends across the pond this Christmas is: don’t give up on us. We’re going through a bit of a wobble right now, but we’ll come around. It may not seem like it, but we love you guys. We even love the things about you that you don’t like. Like Simon Cowell, for instance. We are not bright. We’re Americans. No one knows better than you we’re always just a little bit late to the game, but do we come through in the end? Maybe. Give us about three years. Please. Thank you for your patience, and thank you for Spider-Man. Merry Christmas, and happy holidays.

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