Late-night hosts ridiculed Donald Trump ’s latest efforts to accuse Democrats of corruption while showing frustration over democratic behavior this week.
On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host started by reminding his viewers that with the latest historic victory in Mississippi, the Democrats now have 55 seats in the Senate and 255 in the House.
It’s taken Trump “a week to digest that massive defeat” and now he has hopped “onboard the bipolar express” to accuse Democrats of corruption and claim that he is the first president not to accept a salary, which is false.
Kimmel also noted that there’s only proof of him turning down his very first presidential paycheck and suggested that the following payments might have been applied to the ballroom.
Trump also suggested that “the caravans are back” despite his earlier warnings never leading to a mass arrival in the first place. “I guess those guys got lost in Tijuana for a few years,” Kimmel said.
The host said that Trump is “shrieking” but that “nobody’s listening”.
This week also saw the president make JD Vance the lead Iran negotiator before he “pulled the plug” and instead had him root out alleged corruption and crime in Democratic-run cities and states.
Kimmel speculated that he didn’t want Vance getting credit for ending the war, which would be his “nightmare”, and called the new job “so ridiculous for so many reasons”.
He joked that “Trump telling you to root out corruption is like Colonel Sanders telling you to root out cholesterol”.
Kimmel said that instead “his mantra is corruption” and that Vance “almost had a real job to do, he was so close”.
One of the week’s biggest stories has been the “tech-sex scandal” involving Nvidia’s Jenson Huang, who allegedly had an affair with two women including a Chinese spy.
Trump called him an “honorable man” yet Kimmel suggested that “his wife called him something else”.
The president was informed of the situation as early as October last year but has “dodged that allegation a few times”, and while Huang is “supposed to be a genius” there have now been “a lot of photos” surfacing of the pair in public.
Kimmel called them “a couple of Nvidiots”.
On Late Night, Seth Meyers also spoke about the midterm elections and replayed footage of Republicans who “kept insisting the polls were wrong” before the blue wave took place.
But Meyers added that “the results that came after the election were even crazier”, including this week in Mississippi, where Democrat Scott Colom became the first Black senator since Reconstruction.
Meyers called it “payback” given that Colom had previously been blocked from being appointed to a federal judgeship by his Republican rival, Cindy Hyde-Smith.
Meyers said it was “a beautiful story of revenge” and that it “sounds like something George would do in an episode of Seinfeld”.
He also noted that polling shows Pete Hegseth to be less popular than Trump, which means the president will keep him “around so he looks good in comparison”.
He played a montage of Hegseth saying variously vile things, including a viral list of the types he doesn’t want in the military. “Did you think people were gonna love your incel poetry?” he asked.
This week saw an impeachment attempt by Thomas Massie, whom Meyers called “a sassy Republican”, yet a number of Democrats just didn’t make the vote, leading to a frustrating lack of support.
Meyers played footage of those who did attend calling out the absentees with the word “raggedy” used to describe them.
“If one of your own colleagues calls you ‘raggedy’, that’s how you know you fucked up,” he said.
Meyers asked: “Seriously, Democrats, what the hell?”, before calling their behavior “insane”.
