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Jimmy Kimmel, the event’s relaxed and confident host, offered some digs at Donald Trump (“remember past year, when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?”) In the end, it was an absence that provided the most poignant political statement.

It didn’t go down well with many people with Jimmy Kimmel aiming a snipe at the US President on Twitter following the interview. “Remember past year, when it seemed like the Oscars were racist?”, he said, a dig at 2016’s “Oscars So White”.

Kimmel said he was “not the man” for the job as he took a jibe at Braveheart actor Mel Gibson, but hilariously predicted that much like Meryl Streep, a number of Oscar recipients would use their time in the spotlight to criticise Trump following his controversial first month in office. It was undoubtedly one of the craziest (if not the craziest) moments in the entire history of the Oscars.

Lin-Manuel Miranda started the evening an Oscar win away from bagging the prestigious EGOT – competitive wins in the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tony Awards – for his work in “Moana”, but lost out in the original song category to “City of Stars”, written for “La La Land” by Justin Hurwitz.

So how exactly did the La La Land/Moonlight Best Picture mix-up happen?

“Eventually I figured out that Barry Jenkins, the director of ‘Moonlight, ‘ is standing behind me and Denzel wanted me to get him to the microphone to make a speech, which makes sense”, Kimmel said.

Trump is of course a broad target and some of the political material was rather too obvious. We don’t discriminate against people based on what countries they come from. The “will he or won’t he” surrounding his nominations had been a reason for most of us to follow the ceremony yearly.

“That was so great and generous of them”.

Other repeated memes included snacks descending on parachutes from the rafters to the sound of Ride of the Valkyries.

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, whose film The Salesman won the Best Foreign Language Oscar, had boycotted the ceremony.

Kimmel tweeted “u up?” at the president, and got roughly 75k retweets in a minute.

It is real, and by far the most memorable moment from the 2016 Academy Awards (and most any other Academy Awards, for that matter).

It was a clever riposte to a tweet earlier this year by Trump, who insisted that Street is “one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood” and a “Hillary flunky”. I’ve been getting a lot of advice, people have been telling me it’s time to bring everyone together, you need to say something to unite us, and, let’s just get something straight off the top, I can’t do that’.

“Moonlight” and “La La Land” now have conspiracy theorists buzzing about the mixup at the 2017 Oscars.