Overview
- Google’s 2025 top‑trending people list places Jimmy Kimmel third globally, behind d4vd at No. 1 and Kendrick Lamar at No. 2.
- In his Dec. 4 monologue, Kimmel mock‑thanked President Trump for helping drive attention to Jimmy Kimmel Live! this year.
- Kimmel highlighted that he ranked ahead of Pope Leo on the list and turned the milestone into extended monologue jokes.
- The annual Google charts measure year‑over‑year growth in search interest rather than overall popularity.
- Recent context includes ABC’s brief September suspension of Kimmel and repeated Truth Social posts in which the president urged ABC to take him off the air.