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\u00a0<\/a> <\/p>\n Jimmy Kimmel flipped President Donald Trump\u2019s long-deployed dismissal of anti-ICE protesters as \u201cpaid agitators\u201d by landing the accusation squarely back on the president himself on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n Trump has repeated<\/a> the claim nearly half a dozen times through January while decrying the protests against immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, pushing the claim that demonstrators are \u201cpaid\u201d<\/a> by political opponents \u2014 without providing evidence \u2014 on social media, in speeches, and during cable interviews.<\/p>\n Opening the Jimmy Kimmel Show! on Tuesday night, the host challenged the president to do something he rarely does to \u201cprove\u201d his charge.<\/p>\n The studio audience jeered and booed as Kimmel played back a clip of Trump calling protesters \u201cpaid insurrectionists\u201d and \u201cpaid agitators.\u201d He followed:<\/p>\n I believe he believes it. He can\u2019t imagine anyone ever doing anything without getting paid for it. Paid. These are not paid agitators. These are concerned Americans. If they\u2019re paid agitators, by the way, prove it. Quit saying they\u2019re paid agitators, prove it. You know who is a paid agitator? You are!<\/p>\n The audience cheered as the comedian continued:<\/p>\n You literally sold a crypto coin that says \u201cfight, fight, fight\u201d on it. You\u2019re a paid agitator surrounded by a bunch of greasy little paid agitator-tots, OK?<\/p>\n Watch above via ABC.<\/p>\n