“Let me inform you, that was the worst Taco Tuesday of my complete life,” the Jimmy Kimmel Dwell host stated on the high of his monologue Wednesday evening, lower than 24 hours after Donald Trump defeated Kamala Harris within the 2024 Presidential election. “We had the selection between a prosecutor and a legal, and we selected the legal to be President of america. Greater than half of this nation voted for the legal who’s planning to pardon himself for his crimes.”
That is Trump’s third election. He gained in 2016 and misplaced in 2020 to Joe Biden.
“Donald Trump is just like the Emperor from Star Wars: he’s outdated, he’s evil, and he retains coming again with no affordable rationalization in any way,” Kimmel quipped.
Referencing the aftermath of the 2020 election when Trump refused to simply accept the result, Kimmel famous, “Kamala Harris known as Trump at the moment. She conceded after which defined what the phrase conceded means.”
At one level, Kimmel turned severe — and visibly emotional — along with his voice cracking a number of instances as he listed the doable penalties from Trump successful a second time period.
“Let’s be sincere. It was a horrible evening final evening,” he stated. “It was a horrible evening for girls, for kids, for the tons of of hundreds of exhausting working immigrants who make this nation go, for well being care, for our local weather, for science, for journalism, for justice, at no cost speech. It was a horrible evening for poor folks, for the center class, for seniors who depend on Social Safety, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the reality and democracy and decency.
“It was a horrible evening for everybody who voted in opposition to him. And guess what? It was a foul evening for everybody who voted for him, too. You simply don’t understand it but.”
Kimmel has been a frequent goal of Trump, particularly after the late-night comic known as out the previous — and now future — President on the Oscars earlier this yr.
That was not misplaced on Kimmel who was seen packing his workplace within the chilly open of tonight’s episode, telling Guillermo he was leaving the nation.
“I can’t keep for one more 4 years of this,” Kimmel stated, explaining that he doubtless is on Trump’s enemies checklist.
Guillermo urged him to remain: “We’d like you to assist us get by this; you may have a vital voice.”
Kimmel ultimately agreed, admitting, “You’re proper, I want to remain right here. We’ve got unfinished enterprise.”
Watch the chilly open and the monologue above.
