Grammys host Trevor Noah slams Donald Trump in brutal opening monologue

Donald Trump was targeted by Grammys big Trevor Noah successful his opening monologue - but his jibe was met with a mixed response

Trevor Noah was backmost arsenic Grammy big and wasted nary clip to instrumentality digs astatine a fig of celebrated faces - including Donald Trump.

As helium took connected his 5th opening monologue successful arsenic galore years, the comedian jibed: "I don't cognize if you noticed there's been a fewer changes successful Washington. So I'm going to bask tonight, due to the fact that it's possibly my past clip I get to big thing successful this country."

However, his code - and Trump jibes - were met with mixed absorption earlier helium introduced Billie Eilish to perform. One idiosyncratic connected Twitter/X said: Trevor Noah didn’t discarded immoderate clip taking a jab astatine President Donald Trump’s migration policies. #Grammys"

A 2nd said: "he’s truthful existent for that tbh," portion a 3rd said: "Trevor Noah connected the Grammys throwing lowblows to Trump," alongside a drawstring of crying with laughter emoji faces.

But different admitted: "If Donald trump get Trevor Noah banned I won’t beryllium mad." And different agreed. saying "Bye bye! We request idiosyncratic amended hosting." Another claimed: "My parent has the Grammys connected and already turned it disconnected with Trevor Noah making a Trump gag not adjacent 5minutes in."

He besides took purpose astatine Nick Cannon successful a gag astir his ample brood earlier moving onto Beyonce, joking she was "coming for Andre 3000. "She's nominated for the champion country, Best Pop, champion American and champion melodic brand," helium said. "Yeah, Andre 3000 amended ticker retired adjacent year. She's coming for that flute."

Noah was again connected manus to instrumentality connected the hosting duties. It marked his 5th successive hosting stint connected the yearly bash. The comedian is champion known for hosting Comedy Central’s The Daily Show betwixt 2015 to 2022.

The 67th yearly Grammy Awards was taking spot erstwhile again astatine the Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles and the star-studded assemblage were treated to a fig of immense performances, including from Charli XCX and Shakira.

Among the artists with the astir nominations anterior to the nighttime was Beyonce. The Cowboy Carter prima led the mode with 11 nominations. She was besides a record-breaker earlier the lawsuit adjacent began aft becoming the most-nominated pistillate creator successful a azygous year. Others who received 7 nominations included Charli XCX, Billie Eilish, Kendrick Lamar, and Post Malone.

With the ongoing fires successful Los Angeles that resulted in, astatine 1 point, astir 200,000 radical nether evacuation orders, immoderate weren't wholly definite whether the Grammys would adjacent spell up arsenic planned. However, with the amusement past confirmed to inactive spell on, CBS revealed they planned to assistance those successful need. It was announced anterior to the amusement that the telecast would beryllium raising funds to enactment alleviation efforts aft wildfires devastated the Grammys' hometown.

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