Donald Trump and the White House may still be recovering from the result of the election, but that hasn’t stopped them from taking aim at Jimmy Kimmel yet again. The late-night host responded to the latest barb from the White House on Monday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“And then the White House got back to the important business of attacking me,” Kimmel explained of the election aftermath. “I got another statement from White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, who wrote, ‘Jimmy Kimmel’s case of Trump Derangement Syndrome is so advanced that it has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain. He’s far more entertaining when you’re laughing at him than with him. But unfortunately, his real talent is his failing ratings.’”
“Sick burn, bro,” Kimmel replied. “You know what? You should enter a rap battle spitting dope rhymes like that.”
He added, “Trump now has interns insulting me. It’s like that sad day when your cat gets to fat to chase mice. This guy says I have a peanut-sized brain. Let me explain something: I know you’re young. That’s impossible. You know what happens when you try to run a full human body with a peanut-sized brain?”
Kimmel then cut to a clip of Trump giving a speech where he pronounced “human genome” as “human g-nome.” “You start saying things like that guy,” Kimmel confirmed. “He has a brain like a p-nut.”
The host continued of Trump’s current demeanor, “I don’t think we’re prepared for the amount of insanity that this drama queen president is about to pump on us. Donald Trump right now is a raccoon in a duffel bag. He’s been cut off at the cankles. And there are two possible paths he can take. The first one is to check out. No more meetings. Lots of trips to Mar-a-Lago. Lots of golf with Natalie running behind the cart. Every once in a while he’ll host a Super Bowl team. That’s the best case scenario.”
However, Kimmel noted, there is a worst case scenario. “Scenario number two is he goes nuts. Like Jack Nicholson in The Shining nuts. Everybody who works for him gets the axe. He turns on anybody who might possibly want to succeed him, whether that be Lil Marco or JD Vance. Even his own son. Even if Don Jr. decides to run for president, his father will say and do anything he can to destroy him. Because he wants to make sure no one but him will ever live in the White House again. He might knock down the rest of it for all we know.”
He concluded, “They’ll have to wheel him out of the Oval Office in a straight jacket and mask like the late great Hannibal Lecter.”
Trump and Kimmel have continuously exchanged barbs over the past few years. While hosting the Oscars in 2024, Kimmel read one of Trump’s Truth Social posts during the ceremony, quipping, “Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for watching, I’m surprised you’re still up — isn’t it past your jail time?” Trump later called Kimmel a “dope” and “one of the dumbest human beings ever.” Last month, the president described Kimmel as a “loser” during a rally, leading Kimmel to criticize the sparse attendance of the rally itself.
