Kimmel Ratchets Up Trump Feud With a Fresh Round of Stinging Barbs: ‘He Should Drink Bleach Like He Told Us to Do’
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel showed no mercy towards his archenemy former President Donald Trump, especially while the latter’s legal problems mount.
During Wednesday’s monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host let loose with a number of insults aimed at Trump, tackling his underwhelming primary performances on Tuesday and his bid for total presidential immunity. He started with a weird clip of Trump explaining that he’d rather be electrocuted than eaten by a shark:
The Great White Supremacist has until Monday to come up with a $464 million bond, or the state may seize and sell his property. Trump said nobody has ever heard of anything like this before. Trump needs cash and– We never heard of most of the crazy stuff you do before, but… I mean, nobody ever heard of the president changing the weather with a Sharpie before either. Something tells me over the weekend, Trump’s going to start talking about how strong Vladimir Putin is, and suddenly a dump truck full of rubles will pull up and cover this for him. But of course the real loser here is [Melania Trump]. She may end up with half of the nothing he owns now. I hope she got an advance on that prenup, because if you think she hates him now, wait until he’s poor.
Kimmel was nowhere near done as he moved on to Trump’s immunity request:
Trump yesterday asked the Supreme Court to grant him absolute immunity in the case related to the events of January 6th, and he also wants immunity from chlamydia, just in case, you know. But his argument is that the threat of future imprisonment, not for him, it would prevent the president from doing, potentially illegal things, which I think is the point of prison in the first place. But it turns out the guy who bragged to Billy Bush he could do whatever he wants thinks he should be allowed to do whatever he wants. His lawyers told the court “denial of criminal immunity would incapacitate every future president with de facto blackmail and extortion while in office, and condemn him to years of post-office trauma at the hands of political opponents.” Which sounds bad, right? And yet, somehow we’ve had 44 presidents before him, that never happened to any of them, except for this one guy. Why do you think that is? Could it be because none of them tried to violently overthrow an election they lost?
He punctuated that blistering attack with: “But if Donald Trump wants immunity, he should drink bleach like he told us to do when we wanted immunity.”
The Trump material closed with the former president’s primary victories on Tuesday:
Trump scored five primary wins last night, but not as bigly as he was hoping he would. In Arizona, he lost more than 20 percent of the Republican vote. In Florida, he lost more than 17 percent of the Republican vote to a pair of opponents who aren’t even running anymore. Nikki Haley dropped out two weeks ago. I’m pretty sure [Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis] choked on a meatball at Christmas. But Trump did do well amongst voters who have accidentally shot their washing machines with a handgun.
Kimmel’s feud with Trump kicked off in earnest when the ABC late night host emceed the Oscars earlier this month and veered off-script to read Trump’s Truth Social post about his performance, which read in part: “Has there EVER been a WORSE HOST than Jimmy Kimmel at The Oscars. His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something which he is not, and never can be.” To which Kimmel replied, on live TV, “Isn’t it past your jail time?”
Trump added fuel to the fire during a Fox News interview on Sunday when he was asked about the Oscars, saying, “I said, ‘this guy’s even dumber than I thought.’ The thing went viral. It’s been all over the world now, and all he had to do is keep his mouth shut.”
Watch the full monologue via Jimmy Kimmel Live on YouTube.
