--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Clip: Fake Trump Feud With Martin Luther King description: Jimmy Kimmel took to the streets to find out what people really thought about a fake feud between Donald Trump and Martin Luther King Jr. canonical: https://time.com/5104004/jimmy-kimmel-trump-martin-luther-king/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-16T15:05:36.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:49:46.566Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Told People in the Street That Trump is Feuding With Martin Luther King Jr. og:description: And they believed him og:url: https://time.com/5104004/jimmy-kimmel-trump-martin-luther-king/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85ec44bfaddd7edb/6988f85986f68e5b776e7e96/oakley.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Oakley og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Told People in the Street That Trump is Feuding With Martin Luther King Jr. twitter:description: And they believed him twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85ec44bfaddd7edb/6988f85986f68e5b776e7e96/oakley.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Got People on the Street to Believe Donald Trump Has a 'Twitter War' With Martin Luther King Jr. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 16, 2018 3:05 PM UTC  by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jan 16, 2018 3:05 PM UTC To recognize President Donald Trump’s first [Martin Luther King Jr. Day](http://time.com/5103600/mlk-day-martin-luther-king-jr-president-trump/) in office, [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4949096/jimmy-kimmel-health-care-obamacare/) got a bunch of people on the street to believe the civil rights leader, who was assassinated in 1968, was feuding with the president. “We asked people, ‘Whose side are you on in the Donald Trump-Dr. King Twitter war?” Kimmel explained on Monday night’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, introducing that night’s edition of Kimmel’s “[Lie Witness News](http://time.com/4893267/jimmy-kimmel-where-is-north-korea/)” segment. Kimmel then aired a clip of his crew asking people on the street to pick a side in the totally nonexistent fight. The fact that King has been dead for half a century did not stop many interviewees from going along with the false premise. The results were cringe-worthy. One person agreed that it was fine for Dr. King to skip Trump’s inauguration while another totally bought that Trump declared his dreams far superior to Martin Luther King Jr.’s — because in the president’s, he can fly. One interview subject agreed that the feud could be traced back to the fateful _Celebrity Apprentice_ episode when Poison frontman Bret Michaels sold frozen yogurt much better than King. Watch the full clip below. 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