--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Says He Wants Donald Trump to Come on His Show description: Jimmy Kimmel may spend a considerable amount of time bashing Trump, but the late night host also wants to him as a guest on his show. canonical: https://time.com/4981385/jimmy-kimmel-wants-trump-on-show/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-13T14:49:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:59.653Z og:title: The Real Reason Jimmy Kimmel Wants Trump to Come on His Show og:description: "I have a lot of questions for Donald Trump" og:url: https://time.com/4981385/jimmy-kimmel-wants-trump-on-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c203697cf9e5a96/6988e1d6fb4eacfc8989424e/screen-shot-2017-10-13-at-10-10-23-am.png?branch=production&width=905&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 905 og:image:height: 509 og:image:alt: Jimmy-Kimmel-Good-Morning-America og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Real Reason Jimmy Kimmel Wants Trump to Come on His Show twitter:description: "I have a lot of questions for Donald Trump" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c203697cf9e5a96/6988e1d6fb4eacfc8989424e/screen-shot-2017-10-13-at-10-10-23-am.png?branch=production&width=905&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Real Reason Jimmy Kimmel Wants Donald Trump to Come on His Show > Sponsored content. 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There is no cost and no subscription requirement.  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 13, 2017 2:49 PM UTC  ABC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Oct 13, 2017 2:49 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4979467/jimmy-kimmel-app-translate-trump-fake-news-tweets/) may spend a considerable amount of time bashing [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/4981229/president-trump-tells-democrats-to-call-me-to-fix-obamacare/) on his show, but the [late night host](http://time.com/4966557/late-night-gun-control-las-vegas-attack/) also would love to have him as a guest on _Live!_ In an interview that aired on Friday’s episode of [_Good Morning America_](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-trump-show-feel-turn-couple-things/story?id=50448049), Kimmel explained to ABC News’ Amy Robach why he thinks it would be beneficial for Trump to to sit down with him. “I have a lot of questions for Donald Trump,” he said. “Maybe this is crazy, but I feel like I could turn him around on a couple of things…I think he needs to be surrounded by better people…I just think he’s changed positions so frequently. Kimmel also commented on his recent [Twitter battle with Donald Trump Jr.](http://time.com/4974934/jimmy-kimmel-trumps-twitter/) — a brief back-and-forth in which the First Son lashed out at him over the sexual assault allegations against Harvey Weinstein. “He’s an idiot, let’s just start with that,” Kimmel said of Trump Jr. “This is an imbecile whose job seems to be tweeting as far as I can tell.” Watch the clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4981385/jimmy-kimmel-wants-trump-on-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4981385/jimmy-kimmel-wants-trump-on-show/"},"headline":"The Real Reason Jimmy Kimmel Wants Donald Trump to Come on His Show","datePublished":"2017-10-13T14:49:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:59.653Z","description":"\"I have a lot of questions for Donald Trump\"","url":"https://time.com/4981385/jimmy-kimmel-wants-trump-on-show/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","Donald Trump","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c203697cf9e5a96/6988e1d6fb4eacfc8989424e/screen-shot-2017-10-13-at-10-10-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5c203697cf9e5a96/6988e1d6fb4eacfc8989424e/screen-shot-2017-10-13-at-10-10-23-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy-Kimmel-Good-Morning-America","caption":"","creditText":"ABC","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/4981385/jimmy-kimmel-wants-trump-on-show/","name":"The Real Reason Jimmy Kimmel Wants Donald Trump to Come on His Show"}}]}] ```