{"id":200886,"date":"2025-10-09T17:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200886\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T17:16:07","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-on-trumps-national-guard-deployments-incredibly-dangerous-and-unnecessary-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/200886\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel on Trump\u2019s national guard deployments: \u2018Incredibly dangerous and unnecessary\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts assessed Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s deployment of the national guard for nonexistent crises and government dysfunction amid the ongoing shutdown.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> took a moment to acknowledge his home base of Los Angeles on Wednesday. \u201cWe are safe, we are sound, thanks to our president who saved us from ourselves by calling in the national guard to stop a conflict that never started \u2013 but could have! Had he not acted to prevent an entirely fabricated crisis from spilling out of his imagination and on to our streets,\u201d he said, referring to Trump\u2019s deployment of the national guard in LA to prevent a nonexistent insurrection.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you, Mr President,\u201d he continued. \u201cThank you for sending troops to occupy all of these Democrat-run cities, whether we want them or not. And we do not.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter his successes stopping nothing here and in Washington,\u201d Trump has sent the national guard to Portland and Chicago, over the objections of mayors and governors. Trump responded by calling for them to be jailed. \u201cThat\u2019s a normal thing to do, right?\u201d Kimmel deadpanned.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis campaign to own the libs and deport everybody with a vowel at the end of their name is the passion project of a sick bald individual named Stephen Miller,\u201d Trump\u2019s deputy chief of staff who is \u201cdoing everything he can to turn this country into a militarized zone\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kimmel then played a clip of Miller pausing weirdly in the middle of an appearance on CNN, appearing to freeze up for several seconds. \u201cSometimes the batteries on dildos run out,\u201d Kimmel joked. \u201cYou have to find a USB cable and you have to recharge him.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot only is this incredibly dangerous and incredibly unnecessary, it\u2019s also just dumb,\u201d he added. Trump, Kimmel noted, is reportedly considering invoking the Insurrection Act, a law from 1807 that would allow him to use the military to enforce his rules. \u201cThis guy can\u2019t keep his insurrection in his pants any more,\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump and his buddies in the rightwing media are talking about Portland like it\u2019s a scene from the Last of Us, when the reality is, this is what these troops are being called in to stop,\u201d he said before clips of a handful of protesters, some wearing cute animal costumes, dancing outside an Ice detention facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s really important that we know what\u2019s going on,\u201d Kimmel concluded. \u201cSo if you live in Portland, Chicago, Memphis, DC, any of the cities where Trump is sending the national guard to protect you from \u2026 squirrels, I don\u2019t know, we want to see what\u2019s going on. So please, make a video of your war-torn community and post it to YouTube with the hashtag #showmeyourhellhole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re in the second week of the shutdown, and if it goes on much longer things could break down quickly,\u201d said Seth Meyers<\/a> on Wednesday\u2019s Late Night. Previous government shutdowns have stalled food inspections, cancelled immigration hearings and delayed travel, as air traffic controllers and TSA workers were forced on the job without pay. Trash is already piling up in national parks.<\/p>\n

Meyers emphasized that the shutdown was all about healthcare. \u201cPremiums are about to skyrocket, and Democrats just want to extend the subsidies that will prevent that from happening,\u201d he said. \u201cRepublicans admit it\u2019s a problem and claim they\u2019ll negotiate after the government reopens, but Senator Bernie Sanders isn\u2019t so sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Appearing on CNN, the progressive senator from Vermont said he would not agree to reopen the government because he does not trust them to negotiate. \u201cThey have had months and months to negotiate, and they have chosen not to,\u201d he said. \u201cThe speaker of the House has said to his members: \u2018You don\u2019t even have to come back to Washington DC.\u2019 Before any Democrats, sane Democrats, would agree to anything, it has to be explicit, written down, cross their fingers and so forth and so on. You can\u2019t: \u2018Oh open the government, we\u2019ll negotiate with you.\u2019 Really? Who believes that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBernie always shoots it straight,\u201d said Meyers. \u201cMaybe we should hire him as an air traffic controller.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meyers added: \u201cThe president could easily solve this by negotiating with Democrats in Congress, but he refuses. So now our government is descending into chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily Show<\/p>\n

And on The Daily Show, guest host Josh Johnson checked in on the state of air traffic control without pay. \u201cThings are getting a little hairy in the skies, but don\u2019t worry,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause we\u2019ve got Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, former Real World cast member and somehow most qualified cabinet member. And he is on the case.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Duffy posted a video on social media from Newark airport, where he went up into the tower to meet some air traffic controllers and ask them how the shutdown affected their work. One said: \u201cIt\u2019s just a distraction that we don\u2019t need.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, if there\u2019s one thing I don\u2019t need in a job like this, it\u2019s a distraction,\u201d Johnson responded. \u201cThe only thing more distracting than a shutdown would be if my boss showed up with a camera crew and made me do an interview facing away from the windows while I\u2019m trying to land planes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The man went on to say that he needed pay soon to continue to support his family, prompting Duffy to suggest different types of things he owed: \u201cmortgage, car payments, utility bills, food, all issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNot helping!\u201d Johnson laughed. \u201cDamn Duffy, he knows what bills he has to pay. You don\u2019t need to make a whole Destiny\u2019s Child song about it. He\u2019s up there like: \u2018You\u2019ve got your mortgage, your car payment, your roof needs to be replaced. Man, I\u2019d be stressed if I was you!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts assessed Donald Trump\u2019s deployment of the national guard for nonexistent crises and government dysfunction amid the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-200886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}