--- description: "Tonight we’re gonna give everyone in the audience a basketball dipped in cologne so you can fully experience what it would have been like” title: Jimmy Kimmel Didn't Let Donald Trump Off the Hook For Canceling image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d52954c34d6eec0/698868cba988ca648c6b4dae/donald-trump-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Jimmy Kimmel Didn't Let Donald Trump Off the Hook For Canceling Appearance  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 21, 2015 12:44 PM CUT  Presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the fight between Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct. 17, 2015. Presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the fight between Gennady Golovkin and David Lemieux at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Oct. 17, 2015.Al Bello—Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Oct 21, 2015 12:44 PM CUT Donald Trump was supposed to make an appearance on _Jimmy Kimmel Live_ on Tuesday night but had to cancel because of an “major political commitment,” according to a representative for the presidential hopeful. That didn’t stop Kimmel, who said Trump’s team was “cryptic” about the scheduling conflict, from having some fun at Trump’s expense anyway. “Why did he cancel? We told him there were cameras here, right?” the late-night host quipped. “Don’t worry, tonight we’re gonna give everyone in the audience a basketball dipped in cologne so you can fully experience what it would have been like had Donald Trump been here.” That joke might make things a little awkward when Trump finally does stop by—campaign spokesperson Hope Hicks [told _Variety_](http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/donald-trump-cancels-jimmy-kimmel-live-appearance-1201622199/ "undefined") over email that Trump has “rescheduled to join in-studio in LA over the next few weeks.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4081022/jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4081022/jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Didn't Let Donald Trump Off the Hook For Canceling Appearance","datePublished":"2015-10-21T12:44:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:26:12.207Z","description":"“Why did he cancel? We told him there were cameras here, right?”","url":"https://time.com/4081022/jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d52954c34d6eec0/698868cba988ca648c6b4dae/donald-trump-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d52954c34d6eec0/698868cba988ca648c6b4dae/donald-trump-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 17: Presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the fight between Gennady Golovkin against David Lemieux for their WBA/WBC interim/IBF middleweight title unification bout at Madison Square Garden on October 17, 2015 in New York C","caption":"NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 17: Presidential candidate Donald Trump attends the fight between Gennady Golovkin against David Lemieux for their WBA/WBC interim/IBF middleweight title unification bout at Madison Square Garden on October 17, 2015 in New York Cit","creditText":"Al Bello—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4081022/jimmy-kimmel-donald-trump/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Didn't Let Donald Trump Off the Hook For Canceling Appearance"}}]}] ```