After taking a week off opposite the Winter Olympics, Jimmy Kimmel had a lot of catching up to do with his Monday night monologue—and he started off by responding to a Trump insult that, he quipped, “hit me personally.”

“Over the break, a fundraising email, from one of his many money grabs, was sent to a number of followers,” the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host explained. “The subject line was, ‘DJT: Get Trump Out of Your Mouth!’—which somehow is not a line from the Trump-Epstein files.”

In that February 19 email, President Donald Trump called ABC’s late night host a “ratings-starved hack,” and told supporters that Kimmel’s jokes an attack on “YOU and our movement.”

Kimmel proceeded to read the email in full, including a part where Trump wrote, “He thinks he can sit in his Hollywood studio and laugh at the greatest political movement in the history of our country.”

Kimmel paused to remark, “Yeah! Sometimes I stand, something I sit and laugh, but….”

Trump’s fundraising pitch also said, “[Kimmel] thinks his tired jokes can stop us. HE IS WRONG! While he’s busy reading a teleprompter for a tiny audience of coastal elites, I’m getting ready to address a massive crowd of MAGA PATRIOTS at the State of the Union.”

There, Kimmel paused to note that “we will have a special show [Tuesday] night,” taping later than usual, “to laugh at all the stupid things he says at that MAGA State of the Union. But I digress….”

Trump’s email went on to promise, “Join my MAGA Rally Blitz now and I’ll add you to my exclusive 2026 MAGA Membership!”

A MAGA Rally Blitz? “What even is that?” marveled Kimmel. “It’s like something you’d order at Dairy Queen, right?”

Kimmel finished reading off the email, then got to the big question stemming from its very existence:

“Why is the president, in his second term, even sending fundraising emails?” he asked.

Kimmel quickly posited that given last week’s damning Supreme Court ruling against Trump, “Maybe he needs it to pay all the big, beautiful tariffs he has to give back now?”

Watch that segment of Kimmel’s monologue, cued up above.