For someone who complained a lot about snowflakes, Donald Trump seems pretty delicate. Per a Rolling Stone report, the former president was once so insecure about Jimmy Kimmel’s jokes that his administration tried to pressure Disney into censoring Jimmy Kimmel Live! On Monday night’s episode of his late-night talk show, Kimmel ripped into Trump, calling him “President Karen” and pointing out the ex-president’s hypocrisy.
According to Rolling Stone, Trump was so upset about Kimmel’s jokes in 2018 that Trump allegedly instructed his staffers at the White House to call Disney, ABC’s parent company, and told them to “rein in the…ABC host.” Per the report, at least two separate phone calls meant to “convey the severity of [Trump’s] fury with Kimmel to Disney” were made, and news of these phone calls apparently became the talk of Washington.
Naturally, Kimmel had an absolute field day with the news. “President Karen demanded to speak to my manager,” Kimmel quipped at the top of his Monday night monologue. “You’d think the guy who fathered Eric and Don Jr. would know how to handle jokes, but I guess not.”
Kimmel homed in on Trump’s narcissism, noting that the former president often relishes being the center of attention. “The first time Donald Trump ever tries to stop someone from talking about him on television, and it’s me,” said Kimmel. He then made an allusion to Trump paying off adult-film star Stormy Daniels in 2016 as part of a settlement about their alleged 2006 sexual encounter. (Trump has denied having an affair with Daniels.) “Usually when he wants somebody to stop talking about him, he pays them $130,000,” Kimmel said, “but he wanted me to do it for nothing!”
Kimmel continued making fun of Trump for his “Trumper tantrum,” wondering aloud which joke of his pushed the former president’s buttons the most. “Maybe it was the time I had Stormy Daniels look at a plate of carrots and size them up, and she picked the little one,” he said. He then launched into a list of practically every nickname he has used for Trump on the show, including but not limited to “Tan’y Soprano,” “Mar a Lardo,” and “Pumpkin McPornhumper.”
“I only have 100 more,” Kimmel quipped to a round of applause, before launching into more nicknames for the former president.
“What a fragile little snowflake. What a blowhard. He’s a blowhard and a snowflake,” Kimmel joked. “He’s a blowflake.”
Kimmel went on to draw a parallel between Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, two of the only people who have tried to censor him. “When you think of all the people who I’ve regularly made fun of, it’s a lot of people. The only two who’ve tried to stop me are Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene who actually called the cops on me,” he said. “I made fun of OJ [Simpson] one thousand times; he hasn’t tried to kill me once.”
Toward the end of his roast of Trump, Kimmel called out the former president’s well-documented history of insults. “He makes fun of disabled journalists. He calls our veterans prisoners of war, even losers,” said Kimmel. “He insults his opponents, his friends, his family. But if I point out that he’s so fat they renamed the plane Air Force Wonder Bread, I’m the bad guy?”
Kimmel even found a way to get in a dig at Trump’s reportedly crumbling relationship with his wife, Melania Trump. “Maybe this is why Donald and Melania sleep in separate bedrooms: She was laughing too hard at my monologue at night.”
Kimmel ended the segment by pointing out the hypocrisy of Trump and news channels like Fox News that claim to champion free speech. “Joking aside, this is a blatant abuse of power. I wonder if Fox News—you know, they’re always screaming about censoring comedians—will they defend me on this? I doubt it.” He then played a clip package featuring the ex-president regaling the virtues of free speech. “It’s almost like he’s a hypocrite.”
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