President Donald Trump has done a lot of unbelievable things during his time in the White House, but there’s one reported move Jimmy Kimmel just didn’t buy.
That’s the letter Trump left for President Joe Biden as he left office in 2021, which Kimmel said was written after the Jan. 6 insurrection, “when Trump was probably worried he might need a pardon from old Joe.”
The letter, Biden noted in his upcoming book, “Promise Me, America,” was surprisingly gracious. Trump described working in the Oval Office as “a blessing beyond imagination” and spoke about the history that surrounds the president inside the White House.
“Not only are you joined by the past, but you carry the hopes and dreams of the entire nation on your shoulders,” Kimmel read aloud from Trump’s letter. “The gravity of that fact never leaves you; it is the anchor that grounds every decision you make.”
Kimmel continued:
“Your strength, your deepest reservoir of energy, comes from the knowledge that millions upon millions of people are depending on you. Their ambitions and aspirations are the reason you’re here, with so many counting on your success. May God bless you and Jill, and may God bless America.”
But Kimmel didn’t buy any of it.
“First of all, there’s no way he wrote that. I mean, not only is there no way he wrote it, I bet he didn’t even read it,” Kimmel said. “But what I want to know is where is the person who did write it? Why is that person not in charge of his tweets or speeches or anything for that matter?”
Although the letter was written on White House stationery and in his customary Sharpie, Kimmel said it lacked all of the other hallmarks of a message from Trump.
“It’s gracious. It’s poetic. There are no spelling errors. There are no words in all caps. No blobs of ranch dressing on the signature,” Kimmel pointed out. “Find the person who wrote that letter from the president and make that person chief of staff instead of Stephen Miller.”
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