Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has ripped into a series of Truth Social posts made by Donald Trump.
The 58-year-old comedian would tear down a post made by the president which included his Thanksgiving message and a controversial attack on Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Speaking in the opening address of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host suggested one of Trump’s posts in particular had people laughing at him, not at the country.
Trump’s post reads, “A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at…”
Kimmel would take aim at the “laughed at” section of the post, using it as a segue into people mocking the president and his later comments on Truth Social. The talk show host said, “‘Murdered, mugged, beaten, and laughed at?’ I hate to be the one to tell you, our country isn’t being laughed at, they’re laughing at you.”
Kimmel would then turn his attention to later in the Truth Social tirade where Trump had called Gov. Walz a leader who “does nothing, either through fear, incompetence, or both”. Kimmel joked this was Trump being “presidential when he wants to be.”
He continued, “I wonder why he didn’t get that Nobel Peace Prize. It makes no sense. Trump posted that little blessing on Thanksgiving and caused quite an uproar, even among some Republicans”. Trump would double down on his claim that Walz was “seriously retarded”, a statement he made as part of his Thanksgiving post.
The president would then tell Air Force One reporters he believed there is “something seriously wrong” with the Governor of Minnesota. Kimmel dubbed Trump “President of the Eighth Grade” following these comments on Walz.
Later in his address, Kimmel would joke the president “can’t read” when it comes to polling numbers. Trump claimed he was doing well in the polls but figures across the board are not on the president’s side.
It was reported earlier this week that Trump was losing ground not just in general polling but in Republican support too. Kimmel said, “According to every major poll, it’s [Trump’s approval rating] the lowest we’ve ever seen since we flushed him out of office the first time.”
“His negative rating is now at sixty percent. There are gas station bathrooms on Yelp with higher approval ratings than Donald Trump right now. We are not in an upwards trajectory.”
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