In light of the UCLA women\u2019s basketball team\u2018s recent NCAA championship victory, Jimmy Kimmel joked that the players should bring a fake trophy to Donald Trump. The remark comes after it was revealed that the US President did not congratulate the team on their win.<\/p>\n
Jimmy Kimmel jokes about giving Donald Trump a fake trophy<\/p>\n
The UCLA Bruins women\u2019s basketball team appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday, following their NCAA championship win. Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice, Gabriela Jaquez, and Angela Dugali\u0107 discussed their victory alongside head coach Cori Close.<\/p>\n
At one point during the interview, host Jimmy Kimmel noted that former US President Barack Obama had congratulated the team before asking if they had heard from Donald Trump as well. In response, Rice confirmed, \u201cWe have not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kimmel, who has publicly clashed with Trump in the past, joked, \u201cI\u2019m sure you know he\u2019s busy. Um, he\u2019s in two weeks, you\u2019ll hear from him.\u201d The late-night host seemingly referred to the recent two-week ceasefire agreement with Iran.<\/p>\n
Shortly after, Kimmel followed up with another jab at Trump, telling the team, \u201cIn the event that you do get invited to the White House and you decide to go to the White House, I have something for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
He then brought out a fake NCAA championship trophy for the team and said, \u201cWhat I want you to do is bring this fake trophy we\u2019ve made to the White House.\u201d Kimmel added, \u201cHe\u2019s not going to know. But when you bring a trophy, he sometimes takes it and keeps it for himself. So, this is for you guys to take to the White House. And then you can say, \u2018President Trump, we want you to have this.\u2019 And he\u2019ll be so happy. You\u2019ll probably get an endowment, and you\u2019ll be able to keep the real one.\u201d<\/p>\n
The UCLA women\u2019s basketball team won the 2026 NCAA championship on April 5, 2026, defeating the South Carolina Gamecocks by 79-51. Although Trump had sent his congratulations<\/a> to the Michigan and UConn men\u2019s teams for reaching the NCAA finals, he did not send a similar message to the UCLA and South Carolina women\u2019s teams.<\/p>\n Originally reported by Namrata Ghosh for Mandatory.<\/a><\/p>\n The post Jimmy Kimmel Jokes UCLA Women\u2019s Basketball Team Should Give Donald Trump a Fake Trophy<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In light of the UCLA women\u2019s basketball team\u2018s recent NCAA championship victory, Jimmy Kimmel joked that the players…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,2322,18704,231,5747,4262,11741,6198],"class_list":{"0":"post-706457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ucla","13":"tag-ucla-bruins","14":"tag-white-house","15":"tag-womens-basketball-team"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116373679028462278","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}