Conan O’Brien seemingly cracked a joke about President Donald Trump’s manhood — or lack thereof — throughout the 2026 Oscars.
“We’re coming to you reside from the Has a Small Penis Theatre,” stated Oscars host O’Brien, 62, throughout a return from industrial break throughout the Sunday, March 15, ceremony.
O’Brien added, “Let’s see him put his title in entrance of that.”
The joke was a reference to Trump, 79, including his title to the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts in December 2025.
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White Home press secretary Caroline Leavitt stated the constructing would now be known as the Trump-Kennedy Middle “due to the unbelievable work President Trump has achieved during the last 12 months in saving the constructing.”
New signage went up on the constructing the day after the announcement was made.
As for O’Brien, who really hosted the Oscars from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, the previous late evening host wasn’t afraid to get political throughout his opening monologue.
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Jim WATSON / AFP by way of Getty Photos“There aren’t any British actors nominated for greatest actor or greatest actress. A British spokesperson stated, ‘Yeah, nicely, at the very least we arrest our pedophiles,’” O’Brien stated, a reference to the February arrest of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsorpreviously Prince Andrew, the Duke of York.
Mountbatten-Windsor, 66, was arrested for his connection to convicted intercourse trafficker Jeffrey Epsteinto whom Trump has additionally been linked.
Elsewhere in his monologue, O’Brien referenced the Turning Level USA All-American Halftime Present throughout the Tremendous Bowl final month, which was organized as counterprogramming to Dangerous Bunny’s efficiency at Tremendous Bowl LX.
“I ought to warn you, tonight may get political,” O’Brien stated. “And if that makes you uncomfortable, there’s an alternate Oscars hosted by Child Rock on the Dave & Buster’s down the road.”
Child Rock, 55, headlined the Turning Level USA present.
Throughout a digital press convention on Wednesday, March 11, O’Brien defined the troublesome job of emceeing the Oscars within the present political and social local weather.
“Internet hosting this present is a really skinny line,” he stated. “We’re celebrating films and the superb individuals behind them, however it needs to be humorous with out tipping into anger or politics.”
Throughout his monologue on Sunday evening, O’Brien additionally addressed the present unrest with a hopeful nod.
“We pay tribute tonight not simply to movie, however to the beliefs of worldwide artistry, collaboration, persistence, resilience and that rarest of qualities at the moment: optimism,” he stated. “Allow us to, please, have a good time. Allow us to have a good time. Allow us to have a good time not as a result of we predict all is nicely, however as a result of we work and hope for higher within the days forward.”