ii📢 BREAKING NEWS: Midnight Meltdown — Trump’s New Attack On Jimmy Kimmel Backfires As Ratings And Punchlines Explode 🔥

Trump tried to cancel a talk-show host.
Instead, he handed Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert the best material of his careers.

Donald Trump once again went after Jimmy Kimmel in the middle of the night, firing off a tantrum tweet saying the late-night host “should be fired again.” Kimmel says he found out the way any dad would: lying in bed when his wife walked out of the bathroom, phone in hand, to read the insult aloud — then he shrugged, went downstairs and made bagels for the kids. On air, he joked that if a neighbor threatened you this many times, a judge would call them “nuts” and sign a restraining order on the spot.

This isn’t a one-off. Trump has spent months claiming Kimmel’s show should be cancelled for “bad ratings” and “lack of talent,” even trying to take credit when ABC briefly took Kimmel off the air after a controversy — only to watch the show roar back with some of its highest viewing figures in years. Every attack just proves Kimmel’s point: the ex-president is obsessed with a comedian he insists nobody watches.

Kimmel’s response is pure controlled demolition. He reads Trump’s insults line by line, then widens the frame: a former president so consumed by hurt feelings he’s cheering for Americans to lose their jobs and for a comic to be unemployed. The image is ugly, and Kimmel doesn’t soften it. A leader, he reminds viewers, is supposed to protect people’s livelihoods — not celebrate when they’re threatened.

Enter Stephen Colbert, stepping in like a late-night tag-team partner. In one government shutdown, Colbert opened his monologue by marveling that his show had “outlasted the United States federal government” — The Late Show still open while Washington literally closed its doors. He turns that absurd reality into a brutal metaphor: Trump promised to run America like one of his businesses, and now the country is discovering what “bankrupt” politics really feels like.

Where Kimmel goes straight for Trump’s ego, Colbert dissects the performance. He points out how Trump begs crowds to clap, complains when rooms are too quiet, and treats military leaders and world dignitaries like a restless studio audience. Every speech, no matter how serious, somehow loops back to his ratings, his genius, his victimhood. Colbert barely has to raise his voice; he just lays Trump’s words next to his record and lets the contradictions eat each other alive.

Together, the two hosts dismantle the myth Trump built around himself. The “master negotiator” who can’t keep the government funded. The “tough guy” who melts down over monologue jokes. The “ratings king” who spends more time hate-watching late-night TV than governing. They highlight how policy becomes punishment — like dangling New York City infrastructure funding to spite political enemies — and how the presidency shrank into a one-man show built on grievance, gold trim, and endless applause lines.

What makes their takedown sting isn’t exaggeration, it’s restraint. They barely need to embellish. Trump provides the rage tweets, the rambling speeches, the bragging about crowd sizes that don’t exist. Kimmel and Colbert simply press play, connect the dots, and turn the world’s most powerful office into a cautionary tale about what happens when a man mistakes a country for a captive audience.

Trump’s goal was simple: silence a critic and scare a network. Instead, he turned late night into a nightly referendum on his character — and gave his loudest opponents more power than ever. The bigger question now isn’t why Jimmy Kimmel still has a job. It’s how many more times Trump will try to cancel him and end up cancelling a little more of his own legacy instead.