Jimmy Kimmel joked that Donald Trump is like “Dracula” and can “by no means die” after rumors unfold on social media over the weekend that the President had died.
Kimmel returned to Jimmy Kimmel Reside! after his summer time trip on Tuesday night time (September 2) and wasted no time diving into these rumors of Trump’s passing. Social media went wild this previous weekend with hypothesis that the President had died after he hadn’t appeared in public for just a few days. The rumors, after all, have been false.
“There was a rumor making the rounds this weekend that Trump was lifeless as a result of he hadn’t been in entrance of a digital camera for just a few days,” Kimmel stated throughout his opening monologue. “That’s how a lot he’s in entrance of a digital camera. After we don’t see him there, we assume he should be lifeless.”
The late-night host recommended these rumors stemmed from the “mysterious bruising” on Trump’s hand, “which they tried to cowl up with make-up.” He then confirmed photographs of the bruising and one other picture of Trump’s hand, clearly coated with make-up.
“This cover-up is even sloppier than the Epstein one,” Kimmel quipped. “How might anybody let him exit like this? He needed to have achieved that himself, proper? ‘Seems to be nice, sir. Nobody will discover a factor.’”
He continued, “The White Home claims the rationale for these bruises, and his large fats elephant ankles, is he suffers from a situation often called continual venous insufficiency.”
“Which in layman’s phrases means he’s acquired a really small venous,” the comic joked. “He’s acquired an inadequate venous.”
Trump downplayed the well being issues throughout a press convention on Tuesday morning, saying he was in “nice well being” and “by no means felt higher.”
“Even if he appears like a pumpkin that acquired left in a hatchback on a hundred-degree day, he’s undoubtedly not lifeless,” Kimmel added, earlier than noting that Vice President JD Vance was the one one smiling when the rumors of Trump’s dying have been introduced up through the presser.
“Good outdated JD,” Kimmel stated. “He hears the phrases ‘Trump lifeless,’ he lights up like a Christmas tree.”
As for his personal ideas on the rumors, Kimmel acknowledged, “Right here’s the factor: Donald Trump won’t ever die. Neglect it. He’s like Dracula: he’s going to maintain sucking the life out of us perpetually.”
Elsewhere on Tuesday’s present, the host introduced that he’ll be taking Jimmy Kimmel Reside! to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera Home in New York for 5 nights of tapings, working from September 29 by October 3.
And the primary visitor confirmed for these Brooklyn reveals? None apart from fellow late-night host Stephen Colbert, who’s getting ready for the previous few months of The Late Present after it was canceled by CBS in July.
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