Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel delivered a scathing monologue on the March 3 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, mocking supporters of President Donald Trump who defended recent U.S. military strikes on Iran.
Kimmel, 58, spent much of the show’s opening segment criticizing Trump, 79, after the U.S. launched attacks on Iranian targets over the weekend a move that reportedly killed Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei and sparked global political backlash.
The comedian noted that the decision could be politically complicated for Trump because many of his supporters had expected him to avoid new military conflicts.
“This is all very tricky for Trump because his followers in the MAGA-verse most definitely did not vote for this war. This was the opposite of what Trump promised he would do,” Kimmel said during the monologue.
During the segment, Kimmel mocked political allies defending the strikes and gave them a blunt nickname. He joked that Trump’s “nut jugglers were working overtime to spin” the military operation as a positive development. The host then played a clip of Senator Lindsey Graham discussing the conflict during an appearance on Fox News. In the clip, Graham compared Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to historic wartime leaders.
He claimed the pair were the modern “[Teddy] Roosevelt [Winston] Churchill combination,” adding that “Bibi and Trump are Roosevelt [and] Churchill.”
After the clip aired, Kimmel sarcastically responded with another jab. “That’s right take it from Henry a–kissinger, they are Roosevelt and Churchill,” he joked, referring to Graham as “Henry a–kinger.”
Kimmel also revisited comments he made during the previous night’s show, where he said Trump had broken a promise to keep the United States out of new wars. “When we left you last week on Thursday night, we were not at war,” Kimmel said during Monday’s broadcast. “But today we are at war.”
He added that he once credited Trump for avoiding military conflicts while in office something he said no longer applies. “I used to say the one thing that surprised me about Trump in a good way is that he hadn’t gotten us to any wars,” Kimmel said. “Now that he has, there’s nothing good about him. It’s zero.”
Later in the monologue, Kimmel showed a montage of Trump in past interviews promising to prevent World War III and act as a global “peacemaker.” Before playing the video, Kimmel asked viewers, “Wasn’t Donald Trump supposed to be the president of peace?”
The criticism comes as lawmakers from both major political parties have raised concerns over the military operation, dubbed “Operation Epic Fury,” which targeted Iranian military sites.
The strike has intensified debate in Washington over U.S. involvement in the Middle East and the potential risk of a wider regional conflict.
Source: Irish Star