U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reported entertainer Jimmy Kimmel to the U.S. Capitol Police late Wednesday after he suggested on T.V. that Will Smith should slap her too. Greene, a Georgia Republican, described the late-night host’s remark as a “threat of violence.”<\/p>\n
During Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Kimmel criticized Greene for labeling three Senators,\u00a0Mitt Romney of Utah,\u00a0Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and\u00a0Susan Collins of Maine,\u00a0“pro-pedophiles” when they announced their support for Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.<\/p>\n
“Wow, Will Smith is nowhere to be found when you really need him, huh?” Kimmel appeared to be referring to Smith’s on-stage slap of comedian Chris Rock at this year’s Oscars. Greene’s remark was in response to a line of inquiry from Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee concerning Jackson’s leniency toward s-x offenders, as reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n Greene tweeted Wednesday, “ABC, this threat of violence against me by @jimmykimmel has been registered with the @CapitolPolice.” On Wednesday night, Kimmel reacted on Twitter, writing: “Officer? I’d like to make a humorous report.”<\/p>\n EDITOR’S NOTE: No matter how many times we hear Will Smith’s name, we still don’t care about Will Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reported entertainer Jimmy Kimmel to the U.S. Capitol Police late Wednesday after he suggested on T.V. that Will Smith should slap her too. Greene, a Georgia Republican, described the late-night host’s remark as a “threat of violence.” During Tuesday’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Kimmel criticized Greene for labeling three Senators,\u00a0Mitt Romney … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8472,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}