One week before the election, Jimmy Kimmel passionately entreated moderate Republicans on Tuesday night to rethink their vote for Donald Trump. To boost his argument, he referenced the former president’s own statements against his potential return to office.
On his late-night show on ABC, “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” he spent his opening monologue recalling many of the odd and preposterous statements Trump has made in the last nine years. He implored his viewers to consider the 2024 presidential election as a vote for sanity, security, and democracy.
“Now see, it can be amusing, these whimsical nonsensical tirades of his. If he were hosting a podcast or peddling knives at local farmers market, it would be fine. However, he’s supposed to be our leader. People are actually listening to him causing chaos to increase. After all, he’s giving people the notion that this frenzy is normal,” opined Kimmel.
“Think about all those bodies that gathered in Dallas, anticipating the resurrection of JFK Jr. and his father. They believed the father and son would run as Trump’s Vice-Presidential nominees in ’24,” pointed out Kimmel, referring to one of the strange conspiracy theories that orbit Trump, “Donald Trump elegantly bridges QAnon and QVC.”
Kimmel took a moment to request his viewers to urge their Republican friends and relatives to watch his speech as a personal favor. He then introduced himself, harking back to “The Man Show,” the humorous, pubescent, reality show he and Adam Carolla helmed on Comedy Central from 1999 till 2004
“If you never tune in to my show, it’s I, Jimmy Kimmel here. I think you might remember me from ‘The Man Show’” he said. “Good old times, right? Beer, trampolines…we had a blast, don’t we?”
As Kimmel weighed in on the current state of political and cultural schism in the country, he put himself in the spotlight.
“Time has become less joyous. We are a week away from the election, and we are deeply divided. Not just due to Trump but people like me if I am being honest,” he said. “I do a lot of sneering and demeaning, and it’s not always useful. Am I prejudiced against Donald Trump? Certainly. Do I think my prejudice is justified? Absolutely. I might be wrong, but I believe when you hear some of my rationale behind my bias, you might agree with me, even if it’s just a tad bit.”
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