--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Refutes Trump's Rally Story About Him description: Jimmy Kimmel is setting the record straight after President Donald Trump went after him at a recent campaign rally in West Columbia, S.C. canonical: https://time.com/5334475/jimmy-kimmel-trump-rally-story/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-10T14:47:57.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:53:45.254Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Isn't Letting Trump's Story About Him Go og:description: "It's weird to hear him tell a lie that specifically involves you" og:url: https://time.com/5334475/jimmy-kimmel-trump-rally-story/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e8536b91c9ac10b/69893501e76ad2f0ae63277f/screen-shot-2018-07-10-at-10-12-36-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jimmy-Kimmel-Donald-Trump-Rally-Story og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Isn't Letting Trump's Story About Him Go twitter:description: "It's weird to hear him tell a lie that specifically involves you" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e8536b91c9ac10b/69893501e76ad2f0ae63277f/screen-shot-2018-07-10-at-10-12-36-am.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Isn't Letting Trump Get Away With That Rally Story About Him  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 10, 2018 2:47 PM UTC  ABC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jul 10, 2018 2:47 PM UTC When [President Donald Trump](http://time.com/5334381/president-trump-putin-europe-nato/) went after [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5314531/ted-cruz-jimmy-kimmel-basketball-blobfish/) at a [recent campaign rally](http://time.com/5322064/donald-trump-jimmy-fallon-stephen-colbert-rally/) in West Columbia, S.C., the late-night host was in the middle of the Montana wilderness with no cell service or WiFi. But now that’s he’s back from vacation, Kimmel has responded. During Monday night’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, the host disputed Trump’s claim that he had waited on Hollywood Boulevard to greet Trump when the then-host of _The_ _Celebrity Apprentice_ was one of his guests. “It’s a funny thing. Even the people who like the president know he makes things up. But still it’s weird to hear him tell a lie that specifically involves you,” Kimmel said. “For the record, not only was I not on the sidewalk waiting for him, opening the door of his car—I didn’t even go to his dressing room to say hello before the show.” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5334475/jimmy-kimmel-trump-rally-story/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5334475/jimmy-kimmel-trump-rally-story/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Isn't Letting Trump Get Away With That Rally Story About Him","datePublished":"2018-07-10T14:47:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:53:45.254Z","description":"\"It's weird to hear him tell a lie that specifically involves you\"","url":"https://time.com/5334475/jimmy-kimmel-trump-rally-story/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","Jimmy Kimmel","TV","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1e8536b91c9ac10b/69893501e76ad2f0ae63277f/screen-shot-2018-07-10-at-10-12-36-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/blt1e8536b91c9ac10b/69893501e76ad2f0ae63277f/screen-shot-2018-07-10-at-10-12-36-am.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jimmy-Kimmel-Donald-Trump-Rally-Story","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/5334475/jimmy-kimmel-trump-rally-story/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Isn't Letting Trump Get Away With That Rally Story About Him"}}]}] ```