LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel is no defender of democracy.

At least he turned down the title when a reporter suggested he might be.

“Those are heavy thoughts and I have a tendency to to reject them,” he said backstage this weekend at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. “I don’t really feel like I’m defending democracy.”

He said he’s doing something much smaller when he lays into President Donald Trump.

“I’m giving this guy a little poke, and he deserves it, and I enjoy it, and I hope that people enjoy it too,” Kimmel said.

As the 57-year-old TV personality spoke he was holding his fourth Primetime Emmy Award, this one for best game show host for his helming of “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” He’s up for another Sunday for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Kimmel is, undoubtedly though, a defender o

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