“Jeopardy!” host Ken Jennings took aim at President Donald Trump and his administration Wednesday, calling for a 2028 presidential candidate who will prosecute the entire “regime.”
In the hours after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer fatally shot a Minnesota woman, Renee Nicole Good, Jennings criticized the Trump administration in a series of social media posts.
“The ‘prosecute the former regime at every level’ candidate has my vote in 2028,” Jennings wrote on Bluesky.
In another post, Jennings wrote, “It’s been a dark week, but I just saw someone reply to an ‘Abolish ICE’ post with a scoldy Bluesky ‘Uh, try abolish DHS’ and that joy will sustain me for a little while.”
On Tuesday, Jennings seemed to target Trump’s approach to Venezuela, writing, “America is always like ‘ok but the NEXT regime change will work,’ like when I ‘cut out carbs’ briefly every January.”
Jennings, a Brigham Young University graduate, made history on “Jeopardy” with a 74-game winning streak in 2004. He became a co-host of the game show in 2021 after Alex Trebek’s death, and took over as the sole, permanent host of “Jeopardy” in 2023.
The TV personality has periodically made political comments, typically criticisms of the Trump administration.
While under consideration to fill Trebek’s shoes as the next “Jeopardy” host, Jennings released a series of statements apologizing for previous, “unartful and insensitive” tweets.
“Hey, I just wanted to own up to the fact that over the years on Twitter, I’ve definitely tweeted some unartful and insensitive things. Sometimes they worked as jokes in my head and I was dismayed to see how they read on screen,” Jennings wrote on X in 2020.
“In the past, I’d usually leave bad tweets up just so they could be dunked on. At least that way they could lead to smart replies and even advocacy. Deleting them felt like whitewashing a mistake,” he continued.
“But I think that practice may have given the impression I stand by every failed joke I’ve ever posted here. Not at all!
“Sometimes I said dumb things in a dumb way and I want to apologize to people who were (rightfully!) offended. It wasn’t my intention to hurt anyone, but that doesn’t matter: I screwed up, and I’m truly sorry.
“If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that we should be kinder to one another. I look forward to heading into 2021 with that in mind.”