zz đ˘ BREAKING NEWS: Trumpâs Thanksgiving rant backfires as Jimmy Kimmel slams him live on air â âTheyâre laughing at YOUâ đĽ
Donald Trump went to Mar-a-Lago for the holidays expecting soft lighting, loyal cameras, and a quiet news cycle. What he got instead was a late-night demolition job so sharp itâs still echoing across American media. Because when Jimmy Kimmel goes after Trump on live television, itâs not just comedy â itâs a public autopsy of a man who canât stop watching his own humiliation.
It began with Trumpâs Thanksgiving message. On the surface, it was supposed to be warm: a âvery happy Thanksgiving salutationâ to âgreat American citizens and patriots.â But then, in classic Trump fashion, the greeting twisted into a paranoid rant about the country being âdivided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at.â He wasnât thanking America. He was accusing it â and practically begging to be the center of attention.
Kimmel didnât even hesitate. He hit back with the kind of line that slices because itâs true: America isnât being laughed at. Theyâre laughing at you. It was a punchline that sounded like a diagnosis. And it set the tone for what has become a full-scale late-night siege on Trumpâs ego.
If you think Trump shrugs this stuff off, watch what happens next. Instead of ignoring Kimmel, Trump obsesses. He tries to punish him. He tries to cancel him. And every single time he does, Kimmel gets bigger â louder, sharper, more untouchable. The show isnât just living rent-free in Trumpâs head. Itâs renovating, expanding, and putting up neon signs.
Trumpâs thin skin cracked again when he went after Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, calling him âseriouslyâ wrong and doubling down when pressed. No apology, no pivot â just the same arrogant loop. Walz responded by calling on Trump to release the results of a âperfect MRIâ he had bragged about. It shouldâve been a simple moment. Instead, it became comedy gold.
On camera, Trump was asked what part of his body the MRI examined. His answer was pure fog: he didnât know. He didnât know why it happened. He didnât even know where it happened. Then he tried to rescue the moment by blurting out that it wasnât his brain because he took a cognitive test and âaced it,â adding that the interviewer could never do the same. Watching it felt less like a president speaking and more like a kid bluffing in a school hallway. Kimmel didnât have to invent a joke â Trump was the joke.
But that was only the warm-up.
Fast-forward to November 6, 2024. Trump defeats Kamala Harris, and Kimmel comes on air visibly shaken. The monologue wasnât a typical late-night rant. It was grief mixed with fury. Kimmel said America chose âbetween a prosecutor and a criminal, and we chose the criminal.â Then he went deeper â listing everyone he believed would be hurt: women, children, immigrants, science, justice, free speech, the middle class, seniors, allies abroad, and democracy itself. The room didnât laugh. They listened. It was one of those rare moments where comedy becomes a warning flare.
And then came the line that landed like prophecy: It was a bad night for everyone who voted against him. And it was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too â you just donât realize it yet. That wasnât a joke. That was a forecast. And it haunted Trump because it framed his win not as triumph, but as incoming damage.
By September 2025, Trumpâs obsession had curdled into something more dangerous. On September 15, 2025, Kimmel joked about Trumpâs reaction to Charlie Kirkâs assassination. Within 24 hours, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr called Kimmelâs remarks âthe sickest conduct possibleâ and issued ominous threats toward ABC â warning the network to âdo this the easy way or the hard way.â Hours later, major station groups pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air. Disney suspended him entirely.
Trump celebrated instantly, crowing online like a man whoâd finally crushed his enemy. He didnât stop there â he demanded NBC fire other late-night hosts too. He wanted the whole stage cleared.
But hereâs what Trump never seems to learn: humiliation doesnât disappear when you ban the comedian. It multiplies.
The backlash hit like a tidal wave. Celebrities signed a public letter defending Kimmel and free speech. Viewers reportedly canceled Disney+ subscriptions in protest. Disneyâs market value took a massive hit. And when Kimmel returned, his monologue didnât just trend â it exploded, racking up tens of millions of views in a day.
So Trumpâs grand censorship victory turned into a megaphone for the very man he tried to silence.
Thatâs the pattern. Trump attacks Kimmel. The audience rejoices. Kimmel grows. Trump spirals harder. And America watches a president who canât tolerate ridicule trying to fight a war he keeps losing on live TV â not because his opponent is stronger, but because Trump canât stop giving him ammunition.
