On Tuesday night time, Jimmy Kimmel boldly went the place the LA Occasions, the Washington Submit and USA As we speak have feared to go: The late-night host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Reside! delivered what amounted to a 19-minute anti-endorsement for Donald Trump.
Earlier than launching an extended sequence of clips utilizing Trump’s personal phrases, Kimmel stated, “Tonight’s monologue is for Republicans” and requested his viewers to ship the video to the Republicans of their lives.
“Ask them to look at this complete factor as a private favor to you,” he stated, explaining that most individuals don’t have time to look at each Trump speech or sustain with the previous president’s social media outbursts. “However that is all I’ve to do,” he joked.
“We’re very divided,” Kimmel stated, “and never simply due to Donald Trump, due to individuals like, if I’m being trustworthy, me. I do a whole lot of mocking and belittling, and it isn’t all the time productive. … Am I biased towards Donald Trump? Sure. Do I believe I’ve good causes for being biased towards him? Sure. And I’m in all probability fallacious, however I believe while you hear a few of these causes, you would possibly agree with me, even just a bit bit.”
At one level early on, Kimmel stated, “Possibly there’s somewhat voice within the again your head saying, ‘I won’t need this man driving the bus.’ And in the event you’re a kind of individuals who assume Democrats are controlling the climate or Beyoncé eats child pores and skin, overlook it. This isn’t going to assist in any respect.”
Kimmel’s monologue was loaded with video clips of Trump promising an finish to Obamacare, the consuming cats and canines stuff, anti-immigrant messages and the weird, nonexistent apply of intercourse change operations in public faculties. “That is an imaginary downside,” Kimmel stated.
Kimmel additionally displayed a big wall of pictures of outstanding Republicans who’ve turned towards Trump together with his vice chairman Mike Pence (as if “milk turned on cookies”) and “Dick F*cking Cheney!”
“Most elections are about coverage,” Kimmel stated. “This one shouldn’t be. This one is about sanity and safety and democracy.”
Kimmel ended the monologue by saying that irrespective of who wins, the outcomes needs to be accepted and the loser “goes away.” He then shared a beer with sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, who Kimmel identified was an immigrant and now an American citizen, and toasted all “fellow Individuals” with “God bless America.”
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