Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday snarked that President Donald Trump “seems to be in a very good mood” ahead of next week’s midterm elections, which could see his party lose control of both houses of Congress.
Kimmel rolled a clip of the president losing his temper at a reporter who asked if he canceled Saturday’s planned rally in Kansas because he’s “sick of traveling.”
Trump replied, “You are a sick guy,” before launching a series of personal attacks on the reporter. “Look at this dope, look at this guy,” he said, “he’s way out of shape.”
The president added: “You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape, you look like hell.”
Kimmel fired back: “Imagine him calling someone else out of shape. Is it possible they don’t have any mirrors in the White House? Maybe somebody should take him out to that Reflecting Pool, let him get a look at himself.”
Trump suddenly canceled two rallies he had scheduled for this weekend. And the rallies he has held lately keep getting interrupted by hecklers ― including one who sang out “Trump went on the Jeffrey Epstein plane.”
Kimmel referred to Epstein as Trump’s “BFJeff,” given that the two were once close friends. At the rally, however, Trump claimed he tossed Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago resort for being “a whack job.”
But Kimmel said that story doesn’t add up.
“I know for a fact he didn’t throw him out because he was a ‘whack job,’” Kimmel said. “If you wanna know the real reason... ask this guy.”
Kimmel played footage of Trump last year saying he kicked Epstein out for hiring away the staff at his spa at Mar-a-Lago.
Trump said he told Epstein to stop.
“He was fine, and then not too long after that, he did it again and I said, ‘outta here,’” Trump recalled.
“That’s right,” Kimmel said. “The minute his pedophile best friend started poaching his massage girls, that was it. He was out!”
Check it out in his Thursday night monologue: