Jimmy Kimmel disses “Captain Cankleroo” Donald Trump
Despite his recent warning that late-night television is being “poisoned”, Jimmy Kimmel has fired back at Donald Trump once more after the president reaffirmed his commitment to taking down talk-show hosts.
Kimmel recently clarified his stance on the president, insisting that he doesn’t “hate” the politician, but rather he feels “sorry for him”. Despite this civility, Kimmel has returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! with a monologue that called out Trump’s strange social media usage.
The late-night host called out Trump’s “nonstop nonsense” on the social media app Truth Social, citing a Daily Beast report that the president posted “an average of 27 times a day” on the site in May.
Kimmel quipped, “I don’t know anyone who does anything 27 times a day. He’s posting more than once an hour now—all day and night, around the clock.”
The comic continued, “How does this man have the time to be a doctor and Jesus and also our most out-of-control relative on social media? But I guess that’s what you have to do if you want to make it as an influencer.”
Kimmel added with a smile, “If Donald Trump did one sit-up every time he posted something, he’d look like Jacob Elordi right now.”
Though Trump touches on a vast array of subjects in his Truth Social posts, plenty of them pertain to Kimmel and his profession.
Kimmel went on, “Last night, Re-Post Malone fired off 47 posts in 31 minutes, including another threat against late-night television.”
The comedian then read aloud a specific post in which Trump boasted that he had “taken out many bad Political ‘Leaders’ and Pundits,” including “REALLY DUMB Stephen Colbert of CBS“.
Trump added that he had “Three more limping Late Night Talk Show Hosts, including Low Ratings Bill Maher and his Fake ‘Laughing Machine,’ to go.”
Kimmel took issue with Trump’s “limping” jab, quipping, “I’m not sure I’d be calling us ‘limping’ when you got cankles like this, honey!”
The recording then cut to a picture of Trump’s swollen ankles, as Kimmel joked, “Look at that! It’s like they put a shoe on a balloon animal made out of sausage links.”
Attempting to find the root of Trump’s agitation, Kimmel shared, “I think Captain Cankleroo might be upset because our show won a Peabody Award on Sunday night. And it wasn’t a FIFA Peabody, it was a real one.”
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