Jimmy Kimmel noticed a pattern in President Donald Trump’s way of negotiating on Tuesday night. He made fun of the president after Trump suddenly announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran just hours after saying he would “wipe out” the country’s “whole civilization” if Iran didn’t meet his demands.
Trump had warned early Tuesday that he would destroy the entire civilization of Iran by 8 p.m. E.T. that night.
He threatened to bomb power plants unless Iran opened the Strait of Hormuz “fully and without threat.” But just hours before that deadline, Trump announced a “double-sided ceasefire” for two weeks, saying it was based on a “10-point proposal from Iran.”
After these events, Kimmel made fun of Trump during his opening monologue on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“Another wild day here in the United States of America.
Probably the most dangerous episode of the celebrity president yet. Today it was D-Day. In this case, the D stands for dementia, but it was D-Day today,” he started, as the
He mocked Trump’s angry and rude threats since Sunday, saying, “Realize this is the same man that was just complaining about losing the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now he’s threatening a civilization with death.”
“He went from Mahatma Gandhi to General Zod like that,” the host joked, clicking his fingers.
Kimmel also joked that it had been “the TACO Tuesday of all TACO Tuesdays,” referencing the acronym Wall Street executives use to deal with market chaos: Trump Always Chickens Out.
But he focused on a pattern the president often follows: setting a strict deadline and then changing his mind.
He said it happened every time.
“This is how it goes, every single time,” he said.
“Trump says something crazy. He says, ‘I’m going to kill everybody tomorrow at 5 p.m.’ We all get scared. Then he says, ‘You know what, actually, I’ll kill everyone in two weeks.’”
“Then we relax, and then he forgets he ever said it in the first place,” Kimmel added.
“And maybe the worst part, we know he’s nuts, but maybe the worst part of all this is how relaxed the congressional Republicans are about it. Now he threatens to destroy a civilization. They’re like, ‘Well, you know how he is. He’s a big talker. He yaps!’ And it’s always two weeks. He’s like a responsible employee. He always gives two weeks notice.”
The comedian then played back clips of Trump’s speeches, showing how he often promised major announcements “in two weeks” that never happened.
“I’ll add another ‘two week’ to the reel because it’s ‘two weeks,’” Kimmel quipped.
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