ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel used his Wednesday night monologue to call on President Donald Trump to resign, days after Democrats won back control of both the House and Senate in the midterm elections.
Kimmel’s comments came after he showed his audience a post from the Trump White House’s official X account featuring a photo of the president in the Oval Office with the caption “PSA: Trump is still your president.”
“That is such crap,” Kimmel said. “You were on the ballot. You’re like dog hair; you’re on everything. You’ve infected every nook and cranny of our lives. You divided this country like no one else ever divided it before.” He added, “The only time you ever brought us together was yesterday, when we all teamed up to get rid of you!”
Trump himself struck a different tone following the results, congratulating Democrats on their wins, suggesting he could work with the party on legislation, and acknowledging that the conflict with Iran had cost Republicans votes.
Kimmel nonetheless pressed his case, referring to Trump at one point as “Nappy Gilmore.”
“The verdict is in, and there’s only one thing left for Nappy Gilmore to do: Resign,” Kimmel said. “Quit already, just quit. Nobody wants you. Even you don’t want to be president anymore. Take that billion dollars worth of crypto, buy an island. Maybe Epstein’s island? Wouldn’t that be a perfect end to this story!”
The exchange followed earlier criticism from the White House, which had attacked Kimmel over his pre-election monologue, describing the ABC host as a “no-talent loser who has beclowned himself with tanking ratings.”
Kimmel responded to that characterization on air. “Which is kind of the point of the show, but apparently I’ve beclowned myself once again. And that, by the way, almost word-for-word the same statement they’ve issued about me two times in the past year. I got a third beclowned, which I think is the last warning,” he said, adding, “The last thing I want to do is tell you how to do your job, Danny Dingle, but today seems like a bad day for you to call me a loser.”
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