Jimmy Kimmel Is Having Fun Trolling Trump’s Escalator Tantrum
Jimmy Kimmel has been back on television (or, most TVs, anyways) for three nights since the Trump administration bullied ABC into suspending him, and the host has wasted no time digging back into the president. On Thursday night’s episode, for example, Kimmel used his monologue to rip into Trump’s latest multi-day tantrum.
On Tuesday, the president addressed the United Nations in a bizarre and over-long speech where he said, among other things, that some countries were “going to hell.” This followed a horrifying press conference on Monday where Trump incoherently linked pregnant women using Tylenol to autism. Trump’s busy week also included accusing the U.N. of sabotage, because an escalator stopped suddenly when he and the first lady attempted to ascend it.
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In a screed posted to Truth Social on Thursday, Trump wrote, “A REAL DISGRACE took place at the United Nations yesterday — Not one, not two, but three very sinister events! First, the escalator going up to the Main Speaking Floor came to a screeching halt. It stopped on a dime. It’s amazing that Melania and I didn’t fall forward onto the sharp edges of these steel steps, face first,” he began.
“I then proceeded to make a Speech without a teleprompter, which kicked in about 15 minutes later,” Trump continued. “The good news is the Speech has gotten fantastic reviews.”
The post goes on. And on. It gave Kimmel plenty of fodder for his monologue, especially because he will be heading to New York next week to film Jimmy Kimmel Live! The host wants to make his first stop in NYC that infamous offending escalator at the U.N. headquarters.
“I want to go see the escalator that tried to viciously attack the president this week,” Kimmel said. “Have you been enjoying Trump’s most ridiculous distraction from the Epstein files yet? The president claims he’s the victim of triple sabotage during his visit to the United Nations building in New York on Tuesday.”
I’m sure Trump is sitting in his hideously gold Oval Office, stewing that no matter what he does, talk-show hosts won’t stop telling millions of people about his many alleged connections to prolific child trafficker and sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
“The teleprompter wasn’t working,” Kimmel continued. “There were issues with the sound system. And most nefariously of all, his escalator stopped. The U.N. says they think it was Trump’s own videographer that accidentally kicked a safety mechanism. But MAGAtha Christie and his team of defective detectives don’t believe it. They are on the case. This was not just a minor incident. This was a harrowing escape.”
MAGAtha Christie is pretty good, I’ll say that. Moreover, I’m relieved that Kimmel is using his ratings boost to keep needling our thin-skinned authoritarian leader.
