Donald Trump gets a bashing at the Emmys

Donald Trump has never won an Emmy.

He's been nominated twice while hosting the The Apprentice in America, but lost out to a show called The Amazing Race on both occasions.

Since then he's started his own amazing race, as he bids to make the transition from primetime to presidency. And as the election nears, he stands a decent chance of winning.

Though back on his old stomping ground, last night's Emmy winners weren't shy in having a go at him.

The Republican nominee has been criticised for a number of his proposed policies, which include building a wall between America and Mexico and banning all Muslims from the US.

Host Jimmy Kimmel kicked off proceedings with a dig at Trump in his opening monologue.

"If it wasn't for television, would Donald Trump be running for president?" Kimmel said.

Picking out the British producer of The Apprentice in the audience, he added: "Thanks to Mark Burnett, we don't have to watch reality shows anymore, because we're living in one.

People booed when the camera turned to The Apprentice producer Mark Burnett

"Thank you for coming all the way from England to tear us all apart with your intricate plot. It worked."

He then nominated Burnett to be the first one thrown over the wall if Trump wins and actually builds it on the border to Mexico.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus won outstanding lead actress in a comedy series for her role as US President Selina Meyer in Veep.

During her acceptance speech she apologised for what she called "the current political climate".

"I think that 'Veep' has torn down the wall between comedy and politics.

"Our show started out as a political satire but it now feels like a sobering documentary.

"So, I promise to rebuild that wall, and make Mexico pay for it," she said.

That wasn't the final joke about Trump's immigrations plans though.

Aziz Ansari, the star of Netflix's "Master of None," declared that he was going to enforce Mr. Trump's policies and order Muslims and Hispanics out of the audience.

"America Ferrera?" he said to the actress. "Nice try changing your name to 'America.' You're not fooling anybody!"

Slightly less tongue in cheek was Transparent creator Jill Soloway's comments on the Republican nominee.

In the press room after her for win for outstanding directing for a comedy series, she compared him to Hitler.

"He calls women pigs if they don't look like beauty pageant contestants.

"He blames Muslims and Mexicans for our problems. He makes fun of disabled people.

"He's a complete dangerous monster and any moment that I have to call Trump out for being a inheritor to Hitler, I will."

A few celebrities decided not to have a go at Trump but backed Hillary Clinton instead.

She's the democratic candidate running against Trump in the race to become the US President.

Courtney B. Vance won best actor in a limited series show for The People v O.J. Simpson and after giving a shout out to his wife he ended his acceptance speech with, "Obama out! Hillary in!"

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