Jimmy Kimmel mocks “dumb” Donald Trump for bizarre ballroom comment
Jimmy Kimmel has poked fun at President Donald Trump once again, this time for his outlandish comments on the controversial White House ballroom.
In the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host used his monologue to share comedic footage of the president boasting about the $400 million project in front of a noisy construction site.
Part of the footage showed Trump holding a poster for the finished building, deightfully suggesting that the image made him look slimmer: “You don’t have to look at my waist, you can look at this,” the politician said, referencing the poster.
In response to the curious comment, Kimmel retaliated satirically: “Smart, smart. Instead of horizontally, he built the columns vertically. It’s more slimming that way. Everybody knows that.”
He added, “Can you imagine the Iranians watching that this morning? Minutes before his deadline to bomb them, he’s showing off plans for the new dance floor, where he’s going to cha-cha to ‘YMCA’.”
The comic concluded, “I mean, if he wasn’t so dumb, it might be diabolical. But it isn’t. He’s dumb.”
Previously, Kimmel exposed the dodgy finances behind the expensive operation, after Republicans in the Senate pushed a bill that would allocate a billion dollars of taxpayer money to go toward this project.
Kimmel said at the time, “After saying he and his teeth sucklers would pay for it personally, Team Trump now wants us to foot the bill, which is now five times what he said it would be. What can you say? The man loves to dance.”
In his new monologue, Kimmel also turned his attention to Trump’s political tactics: “Have you noticed he always seems to back down on Tuesday? Every Tuesday it’s like a new episode of NCIS.”
He joked, “I think it’s because he has more free time on the weekends to make threats and then Monday comes he’s like, ‘Hey, I don’t want to deal. Just cancel until next week.’ This war feels like a series of millennial business meetings.”
Kimmel is on a reduced schedule this week, taking May 21st off air in order to pay respect to Stephen Colbert’s final episode of The Late Show.
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