{"id":472925,"date":"2026-02-13T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472925\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:47:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-on-maga-its-such-a-delicate-balance-between-stupid-and-evil-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/472925\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel on Maga: \u2018It\u2019s such a delicate balance between stupid and evil\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> talked about Pam Bondi<\/a> and this week\u2019s judiciary hearings as well as the latest climate-destroying victory for the Trump administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The late-night host said that Donald Trump \u201cmight be feeling a bit lonely this Valentine\u2019s Day\u201d as his recent fundraising email<\/a> leads with the question: \u201cDo you still love me?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel said that then, \u201clike a lot of dirtbag boyfriends, it asks you for money\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said that for Valentine\u2019s Day, Donald and Melania Trump will be enjoying dinner \u2013 \u201cseparately of course\u201d \u2013 before speculating that over at JD Vance<\/a>\u2019s household, the vice-president won\u2019t be getting his wife a gift as \u201che likes it when she makes him go sleep on the couch<\/a>\u201d. Kimmel joked: \u201cThat\u2019s his sexy time.\u201d<\/p>\n

This week Vance has been \u201cweakly defending his boss\u201d with yet more anger over \u201cwhat are now known as the Trump-Epstein files\u201d given how many times<\/a> the president is mentioned in them.<\/p>\n

Bondi, the attorney general, put on \u201ca nearly five-hour Karen-thon\u201d in front of the House judiciary committee as she was put to task<\/a> over the handling of Epstein.<\/p>\n

A photographer managed to take a picture of her notes, which showed that she has been tracking the search history of Congress members without their knowledge, aiming to use it against them during the hearings.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

She even printed it out and put a title on top, leading Kimmel to note that \u201cit\u2019s such a delicate balance between stupid and evil\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said it was a \u201cdeeply disturbing\u201d discovery, yet when asked about it, House speaker Mike Johnson guessed it was a mere oversight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a bad guess,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cYou mean somebody forgot to not track and document everything elected members of Congress were privately looking up? That is a hell of an oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that for the 535 members of Congress, there are only four computers available to look through the 3m pages<\/a> of the recently released files.<\/p>\n

\u201cPam Bondi has spent more time investigating the people who are reading the Epstein files than the people who are in the Epstein \u2013 I mean Trump-Epstein \u2013 files,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

This week the House also voted<\/a> to nix Trump\u2019s Canada tariffs<\/a>, which led to anger from the president. \u201cTrump has really had it in for Canada ever since he heard about that gay hockey show<\/a>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Kimmel said that \u201cunless he\u2019s able to cheat<\/a> his way through the next election\u201d, it\u2019s looking like Democrats will take back control of Congress in midterms.<\/p>\n

It would make Trump \u201ca lame duck with greatly diminished influence\u201d.<\/p>\n

Kimmel said that he also earned the title of \u201cgreenhouse gas-hole of the year\u201d as he scored \u201ca great Maga victory\u201d with an order<\/a> that allows for people to pump whatever they want into the environment without regulation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He also mentioned the latest bizarre interview with RFK Jr, who said he once snorted cocaine off a toilet seat. \u201cThat\u2019s how he killed the brain worm<\/a>,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n

This weekend might also see a partial government shutdown<\/a>, which would pause funding<\/a> for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats want Immigration and Customs Enforcement to revise policies with some \u201cvery basic requests\u201d, essentially the \u201csame guidelines that police have to follow\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel talked about Pam Bondi and this week\u2019s judiciary hearings as well as the latest climate-destroying victory…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-472925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}