Late evening comedy speak present host Jimmy Kimmel, who hosts “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on ABC, was lowered to tears Wednesday as he scolded the voters who elected President-elect Donald Trump to a second time period.
“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard-working immigrants who make this country go,” Kimmel mentioned as his voice broke with emotion. “For health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.”
A teary-eyed Kimmel continued his listing of teams he claimed would bear the brunt of one other Trump presidency.
“It was a terrible night for poor people, for the middle class, for seniors who rely on Social Security, for our allies in Ukraine, for NATO, for the truth, democracy and decency,” he mentioned.
“And it was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him, and — guess what? — it was a terrible night for everyone who voted for him, too, you just don’t realize it yet.”
Jimmy Kimmel tries to not cry in his newest tirade in opposition to Donald Trump:
“It was a terrible night for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hard working immigrants… for health care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech.” pic.twitter.com/FDgIXejhsT
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Kimmel additionally mentioned “it was a really good night for [Vladimir] Putin, and for polio, and for lovable billionaires like Elon Musk, and the bros up in Silicon Valley, and all the wriggling brain worms who sold what was left of their souls to bow down to Donald Trump.”
“But you know what?” Kimmel mentioned. “I’m going to say something Trump would never say unless it favored him: The people voted, and this is the choice we made. In January, Donald Trump becomes president and that’s that. He won. It doesn’t mean we give up, but it also doesn’t mean we storm the Capitol because we don’t like the result.”
Kimmel additionally mentioned he was struggling to discover a silver lining in Trump’s victory, which brought about him to query the knowledge of most People.
“I’ve been trying to come up with something positive, the best I can come up with is we’ve been through this once before and, yes, this time it’s probably gonna be worse, maybe a lot worse,” Kimmel mentioned.
“I’m disappointed. I know a lot of you are too. I thought common sense would prevail. I’m so stupid, I always think it’s gonna, but for a lot of people this just isn’t important. It’s not high on their list.”
Kimmel likened Trump to Emperor Palpatine, the hooded villain of the “Star Wars” movies.
“He’s old, he’s evil, and he keeps coming back with no reasonable explanation whatsoever,” Kimmel mentioned. “Just when they finally scrubbed the last of the ketchup off those White House walls!”
Feelings additionally ran excessive throughout Wednesday’s episode of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on CBS, with Colbert joking throughout his opening monologue that he had changed his “I Voted” sticker with one which learn, “I am questioning my fundamental belief in the goodness of humanity.”
“The majority has spoken and they said they don’t care that much about democracy,” Colbert added.
Later within the present, CBS Information anchor John Dickerson fought again tears fascinated about “his boys” after Colbert requested him how he would clarify a Trump victory to a 14-year-old.
“Late night ‘comedy’ has devolved into grown men crying because Donald Trump won the election,” one X person wrote.
Late evening “comedy” has devolved into grown males crying as a result of Donald Trump received the election. pic.twitter.com/v145w5vnKZ
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“Well bless their hearts.”