“Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings appeared to take a swipe at President Donald Trump and his administration, saying he’d help a candidate who vows to prosecute the present “regime.”
Jennings took to the liberal social media platform Bluesky Wednesday throughout a information cycle dominated by the ICE-involved taking pictures in Minneapolis.
“The ‘prosecute the previous regime at each stage’ candidate has my vote in 2028,” Jennings wrote.
On Tuesday, he appeared to knock Trump’s coverage on Venezuela, writing on Bluesky, “America is at all times like ‘okay however the NEXT regime change will work,’ like once I ‘lower out carbs’ briefly each January.”
Sony Footage Tv, which produces the syndicated recreation present; Jennings; and representatives for Jennings didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information Digital’s requests for remark.
Jennings, who started co-hosting “Jeopardy!” in 2021 and have become the solo host in 2023, has had a historical past of liberal, anti-Trump commentary.
In 2017, the previous “Jeopardy!” champion mocked Trump’s 11-year-old son Barron, who reportedly believed that the notorious photograph of liberal comic Kathy Griffin holding a prop of the president’s bloodied severed head was actual after seeing it on tv.
“Barron Trump noticed a really lengthy necktie on a heap of expired deli meat in a dumpster. He thought it was his dad & his little coronary heart is breaking,” Jennings wrote in a since-deleted publish on Twitter (now known as X).
Jennings initially defended the publish amid backlash, writing, “The joke doesn’t mock Barron. It mocks utilizing him for political cowl.”
In 2018, Jennings poked enjoyable at what he known as an “terrible MAGA grandma” in response to a social media publish from a lady who remembered her late disabled son who was a fan of the enduring ’80s TV character “Alf.”
In January 2020, Jennings supplied his help to senators Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., in the course of the Democratic main, posting, “Keep in mind, defending champion Ken Jennings needs you to vote for Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren.”
When he was into consideration to exchange longtime “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek after his Trebek’s dying, Jennings issued a broad apology for his previous “insensitive” tweets.
“I simply needed to come clean with the truth that through the years on Twitter, I’ve positively tweeted some unartful and insensitive issues. Typically they labored as jokes in my head, and I used to be dismayed to see how they learn on display,” Jennings wrote in December 2020.
“Up to now, I’d often depart unhealthy tweets up simply in order that they could possibly be dunked on. At the least that means they may result in sensible replies and even advocacy. Deleting them felt like whitewashing a mistake. However I believe that observe could have given the impression I stand by each failed joke I’ve ever posted right here. By no means!” he continued.
“Typically I stated dumb issues in a dumb means and I need to apologize to individuals who had been (rightfully!) offended. It wasn’t my intention to harm anybody, however that doesn’t matter: I screwed up, and I’m actually sorry.”
Jennings’ newest publish is probably going in reference to the Division of Homeland Safety’s response to the deadly taking pictures in Minneapolis. DHS accused a lady who was shot behind the wheel of a car of “home terrorism” by concentrating on an ICE agent in entrance of her.
Critics are accusing the agent of utilizing extreme pressure.
