Jimmy Kimmel didn’t pull any punches on Thursday night time’s (January 30) version of Jimmy Kimmel Reside! as he blasted President Donald Trump‘s feedback on the lethal midair collision between an American Airways flight and a helicopter on Wednesday night time (January 29).
The business flight was carrying 60 passengers and 4 crew members when it collided with a Black Hawk helicopter carrying three troopers because it ready to land at Reagan Nationwide Airport round 9 p.m. ET. There have been no survivors, officers mentioned.
“This was the deadliest air crash in 24 years,” Kimmel mentioned on the prime of Thursday’s present earlier than addressing Trump’s 40-minute press convention, through which “he spent two of these minutes providing phrases of consolation and sympathy to the victims and their households and 38 minutes blaming Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg and variety.”
Kimmel continued, “Keep in mind when he waited ten minutes after the wildfires began right here in L.A. earlier than he began blaming DEI (Variety, Fairness, and Inclusion)? Effectively, I assume he realized from that lesson as a result of this time he slept on it after which began pointing that little orange nub.”
The late-night host then aired a clip from the presser the place a reporter requested Trump how he might conclude that variety had something to do with the crash, to which the President responded, “As a result of I’ve frequent sense.”
“Take it from a person who regarded straight into an eclipse; you want frequent sense,” Kimmel quipped earlier than including, “Trump, he hears the phrases Black Hawk, and he’s like, ‘Effectively, if that hawk had been white.’”
Taking a extra severe flip, Kimmel mentioned all Trump needed to do was “go on the market and say ‘It is a tragedy,’ supply some consolation to the households to the navy households, promise to resolve it.”
“However he can’t try this,” the comic continued. “As a result of he’s callous, he’s racist, he’s sexist, and most of all, he’s silly. He’s a deeply silly man.”
“In charge this on DEI is like blaming 9/11 on humus,” Kimmel joked. “It is senseless. I believe perhaps [Trump] will get jealous when a catastrophe will get extra protection than him. He’s like, ‘I’m the largest catastrophe; you level that digital camera at me proper now.’”
You may watch Kimmel’s full opening monologue within the video above.
Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, Weeknights, 11:35pm ET/PT, ABC