“Let me let you know, that was the worst Taco Tuesday of my complete life,” the Jimmy Kimmel Dwell host mentioned on the prime 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 prison, and we selected the prison to be President of the US. Greater than half of this nation voted for the prison who’s planning to pardon himself for his crimes.”
That is Trump’s third election. He received 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“Donald Trump is just like the Emperor from Star Wars: he’s outdated, he’s evil, and he retains coming again with no cheap rationalization in anyway,” Kimmel quipped.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 trustworthy. It was a horrible evening final evening,” he mentioned. “It was a horrible evening for girls, for kids, for the a whole lot 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, totally free speech. It was a horrible evening for poor individuals, 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 towards him. And guess what? It was a nasty evening for everybody who voted for him, too. You simply don’t notice 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 12 months.
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 mentioned, explaining that he doubtless is on Trump’s enemies checklist.
Guillermo urged him to remain: “We want you to assist us get by this; you have got an important voice.”
Kimmel finally agreed, admitting, “You’re proper, I want to remain right here. We now have unfinished enterprise.”
Watch the chilly open and the monologue above.
