Jimmy Kimmel had plenty to say Monday night about Donald Trump’s contentious Meet the Press interview — and he saved some of his sharpest jokes for the moment Trump abruptly walked away from the conversation.
During Sunday’s interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker, recorded Friday in Wisconsin, Trump faced repeated questions about his claims that California elections and the 2020 presidential race were tainted by fraud.
Welker repeatedly asked the president to provide evidence supporting those allegations.
When she challenged him on the issue, the exchange quickly unraveled. Trump accused both Welker and NBC of being “crooked” before ultimately ending the interview and walking off.
The confrontation became one of the centerpieces of Kimmel’s Monday night monologue.
After showing a clip of Welker pressing Trump to substantiate his claims about the Los Angeles mayoral election being “crooked,” Kimmel paused to deliver one of the night’s biggest punchlines.
“You’re either crooked or you’re stupid,” Trump said in the clip.
The audience inside Jimmy Kimmel Live! responded with boos.
“This is why he mostly dated women who don’t speak English,” Kimmel joked.
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He continued by poking fun at the interview’s unusual setting and the weather complications that repeatedly interrupted the discussion.
“This interview, first of all, was interrupted several times by rain,” Kimmel said. “And I don’t know if he was worried about the cotton candy on his head getting wet or he just didn’t like the fact that he was being taken to task by a woman.”
“Either way, their talk ended in a full-blown Trumper tantrum,” he added.
Kimmel then replayed the moment Trump decided to end the interview. In the edited version shown during the monologue, the president was depicted through an AI-generated effect as wearing an oversized adult diaper while standing up to leave, drawing loud laughter from the studio audience.
“You know what? When that dinner bell rings, he’s gone,” Kimmel quipped.
Closing out the segment, Kimmel expressed disbelief at the spectacle of a president ending a television interview in such dramatic fashion.
“Can you imagine any other president in the history of any other place doing that?” he asked.
“That was a hissy fit!”
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