This is all your fault, Jimmy Kimmel.
Throughout Sunday night’s telecast of the 89th Academy Awards, the host taunted Donald Trump, at various points even Tweeting at the President to ask if he was awake.
He may or may not have been during the show.
But Trump is now claiming to be woke when it comes to why the Oscars effed up its Best Picture reveal in such shocking manner.
By now, you very likely are aware of what transpired:
Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway were given the wrong envelope upon presenting the event’s most important award.
Still, the veteran stars carried on with their duty and announced La La Land as the Best Picture winner because the card read “Emma Stone, La La Land” (it was a duplicate of the Best Actress card).
After that film’s cast and crew took the stage and even started to give acceptance speeches, Kimmel and an Academy Awards employee rushed out to confirm the error:
Moonlight had actually won Best Picture.
It was a truly crazy scene. Check it out below:
Why did it happen?
Auditing firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, the company in charge of the envelopes, has taken responsibility and issued an apology for a mistake made by one of its long-time employees.
But they aren’t to blame, according to Trump.
He tells fake news outlet Breitbart that the event’s obsession with him is actually the reason why it made such a giant miscue.
“I think they were focused so hard on politics that they didn’t get the act together at the end,” Trump told the website yesterday, adding:
“It was a little sad. It took away from the glamour of the Oscars. It didn’t feel like a very glamorous evening. I’ve been to the Oscars. There was something very special missing, and then to end that way was sad.”
One could say that a small, moving, diverse movie such as Moonlight winning Best Picture was actually a happy development; an unexpected, glorious, inspiring ending to the Oscars.
But the person saying that would definitely not be Donald Trump.
Going into the Academy Awards, most viewers assumed acceptance speeches would be filled with political references and Trump insults.
But there was actually very little political posturing.
Yes, of course Kimmel took aim at the POTUS during the show at L.A.’s Dolby Theatre.
“I want to say thank you to President Trump. Remember last year when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?” he said in his opening monologue of the 2015 #OscarsSoWhite controversy.
“It’s gone thanks to him.”
Later on, Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal spoke out about the planned border wall, saying:
“As a Mexican, as a migrant worker, as a human being, I’m against any form of wall that separates us.”
Iranian director Asghar Farhadi had a statement read on his behalf when he won for Best Foreign Language Film that stated he didn’t attend “out of respect for the people of my country and those of other six nations whom have been disrespected by the inhumane law that bans entry of immigrants to the U.S.”
That was about it, though.
And it somehow seems unlikely that Farhadi’s letter or Bernal’s point of view affected the Best Picture snafu.
Donald Trump Jr., meanwhile, also slammed the Oscars on Twitter on Monday.
“Interesting mistake, its almost like Hollywood doesn’t really care about the little people behind the scenes,” he wrote, including a link to a story about the Academy putting a photo of still-alive producer Jan Chapman in the “In Memoriam” segment.
He’s clearly right.
This error was entirely representative of how celebrities don’t care about little people behind the scenes.
