Jimmy Kimmel eviscerated Donald Trump‘s State of the Union address during his Tuesday late-night monologue, summarizing his feelings on the president’s 108-minute “rambling” speech by quipping: “I have to say, Trump’s dementia really makes me miss Joe Biden’s dementia. It was a much friendlier dementia.”
The late-night host was especially appalled over Trump’s accusation that Somali residents in Minnesota are “plundering America.” Trump urged attendees to stand up if they agreed that “the first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens,” and yet he failed to mention how government-backed ICE agents were responsible for the shooting deaths of U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minnesota earlier this year.
“You should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up!” Trump said to the Democrats who remained seated. “These people are crazy, I’m telling you, they’re crazy.”
Kimmel fired back during his monologue: “Here’s the real State of the Union, OK? We have a nutjob wannabe king who’s doing everything he can to censor opinions he doesn’t want to hear. He has his goons arresting, incarcerating and killing American citizens. He’s cut funding for cancer research and children’s hospitals while he rakes in literally billions of dollars for himself and his family. He’s coming after our right to vote. He’s protecting pedophiles and won’t explain it. He’s lining the pockets of billionaires, all while neglecting the sick, the poor, the hungry. In the name of Jesus, by the way, who you could read all about in a Donald Trump edition of the ‘God Bless the USA Bible’ that is made in China and available for $99.99. That is the State of the Union.”
“When you ramble mostly incoherently for two hours, is that technically still a speech or does it at some point become a conniption thing?” Kimmel later quipped.
Kimmel regularly uses his late-night monologue to condemn Trump’s actions. He roasted the president earlier this month for complaining about Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Half Time show not being predominantly in English by saying: “This is a man who paid off a porn star who spanked him with his own face on a magazine.”
Watch Kimmel’s latest monologue in the video below.
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