--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Pitches App to 'Translate' Trump's Tweets description: Jimmy Kimmel just came up with an idea for a new app that would flip President Donald Trump's "fake news" tweets on their head. canonical: https://time.com/4979467/jimmy-kimmel-app-translate-trump-fake-news-tweets/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-12T15:03:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:57.611Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Hilariously 'Translates' Trump's 'Fake News' Tweets og:description: "Everything Trump says is fake is true" og:url: https://time.com/4979467/jimmy-kimmel-app-translate-trump-fake-news-tweets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Hilariously 'Translates' Trump's 'Fake News' Tweets twitter:description: "Everything Trump says is fake is true" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jimmy Kimmel Has an Idea for an App to 'Translate' Trump's 'Fake News' Tweets > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 12, 2017 3:03 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 12, 2017 3:03 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4975821/trump-jr-kimmel-weinstein/) just came up with an idea for a new app that would flip [President Donald Trump’s](http://time.com/4979322/donald-trump-sean-hannity-north-korea/) “fake news” tweets on their head. Following a [series of tweets](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/917921548677328896) from Trump that seemed to come in response to a Wednesday story from [_Vanity Fair_](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/10/donald-trump-is-unraveling-white-house-advisers) reporting that he hates everyone in the White House and is not getting along with his new chief of staff, [General John Kelly](http://time.com/4949822/john-kelly-photoshop-battle/), the late night host decided to test out a word-swapping experiment. “Everything Trump says is fake is true. Everything he says is honest is dishonest. In fact, I had a fun idea. We went through his tweets and every time he wrote ‘fake’ we replaced it with ‘true’ and every ‘honest’ we replaced with ‘dishonest,'” Kimmel explained during Wednesday’s episode of _Live!_ “That should be an app — we could translate them all. 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