Jimmy Kimmel laid into Donald Trump after the president suggested the protests in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of a woman by ICE were “fake.”
The comedian blasted the president’s latest comments on the growing situation in Minnesota during Tuesday’s monologue for “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” During his address, Kimmel sounded off on Trump giving “another bananas speech” and accused the president of trying to twist the truth.
“First they want us to believe that we did not see what we all saw happen to [victim] Renee Good,” he said. “Now he wants us to believe the protests aren’t real. It’s like the ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ in reverse. He’s telling us we’re the ones who are naked while they do their best to cover everything up.”
As Kimmel went on, he ripped into Trump’s Tuesday morning rant, in which the president asked if the people of Minnesota wanted to live in a “community in which there are thousands of already convicted murderers, drug dealers and addicts, rapists, violent released and escape prisoners, dangerous people from foreign mental institutions and insane asylums, and other deadly criminals too dangerous to even mention.”
The late night host was noticeably baffled by Trump’s social media post, as he compared the president to “the Undertaker at Wrestlemania.”
He added: “I mean, seriously, would somebody get this hypoglycemic 5-year-old a fidget spinner? He needs something to do with his hands. I really don’t know what this old nut is rambling about, but the protests in Minneapolis are real enough for the MAGA-verse media to descend upon them.”
Watch Kimmel’s full monologue above.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.
