Jimmy Kimmel continued to unpack President Donald Trump‘s tackle to Congress on Wednesday’s (March 5) Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!, the place he known as out the size of the speech and the quite a few lies inside it.
“[Trump] spoke for 99 minutes final night time with no intermission. It was the longest Presidential tackle in additional than 60 years,” Kimmel mentioned on the high of his opening monologue. “Why is it that the orchestra can play off an Oscar winner however not the president?”
He quipped, “Trump’s speech went on so lengthy, his speech was ten minutes longer than The Lion King. True, and had twice as a lot lyin’ in it.”
Talking of the lies Trump advised in his speech, Kimmel mentioned it was a lot that “three reality checkers died including it up.”
“Not everybody was a fan of the King’s Speech,” the late-night host continued. “One gentleman on social media, I feel, summed it up fairly properly. He wrote, ‘Which may be the Angriest, Least Compassionate, and Worst State of the Union Speech ever made. It was an Embarrassment to our Nation!”
He then revealed that the quote was really from Trump’s response to former President Joe Biden’s speech final 12 months.
Kimmel highlighted Trump’s “Biden-bashing”, together with one particular declare he made that, “underneath Biden, the federal authorities was spending 8 million {dollars}, on this,” throwing to a clip of Trump saying Biden’s authorities was “spending 8 million {dollars} on making mice transgender.”
“You already know, you hear the President of america say, ‘We’re spending 8 million {dollars} to do intercourse change operations on mice,’ you say, ‘Properly, I’m certain he’s exaggerating, however there have to be one thing there,’” Kimmel continued. “Turns on the market’s not. It’s not actual.”
He added, “The federal government spent cash on transgenic mice, that are genetically modified mice they use in lab checks to check illness. Has nothing to do with being transgender apart from the phrase, the trans a part of the phrase.”
“You suppose they know this and simply ignore it, or are they so dumb they don’t know the way to Google?” the comic mentioned. “Or possibly they suppose we’re so dumb, we don’t know the way to Google. I don’t know.”
“‘They’re turning Mickeys into Minnies and Minnies into Mickeys,’” Kimmel mocked earlier than including, “No, they’re simply making an attempt to remedy dementia and coronary heart illness. Which you’d suppose Trump could be for, seeing as how they’re each coming for him actual quickly.”
Elsewhere in his monologue, Kimmel turned his consideration to Elon Musk and his X-based AI device Grok, which Musk and his DOGE division have allegedly been utilizing to determine which federal workers to fireplace.
Kimmel identified how somebody, Arizona Republic columnist EJ Montini, requested Grok, “What’s the chance from 1-100 that Trump is a Putin-compromised asset? Use all publicly accessible data from 1980 on and his failure to ever say something destructive about Putin however has no problem attacking allies.”
The device estimated 75-85% chance that “Trump is a Putin-compromised asset, leaning towards the upper finish” of that vary.
“Properly, I imply, if that’s ok to fireplace someone, Grok him up,” Kimmel said. “As a result of 85% could be very excessive.”
You possibly can watch Kimmel’s full opening monologue within the video above.
Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!, Weeknights, 11:35 pm ET/PT, ABC