{"id":416394,"date":"2026-04-25T05:13:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416394\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:13:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:13:12","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-on-trump-a-delicate-snowflake-with-the-thinnest-fat-skin-of-any-human-being-ever-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/416394\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel on Trump: \u2018A delicate snowflake with the thinnest fat skin of any human being ever\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts imagined an alternative White House correspondents\u2019 dinner roast and recapped Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s latest erratic threats on Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

On Thursday evening, Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> looked ahead to this weekend\u2019s annual gala hosted by the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association (WHCA), which Donald Trump promised would be the \u201cGREATEST, HOTTEST, and MOST SPECTACULAR DINNER, OF ANY KIND, EVER!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing hotter than this dinner are his diapers on the golf course,\u201d the host quipped.<\/p>\n

This will be the first time that Trump attends<\/a> the annual event for press and politicians as president, and the Daily Beast reported that his plan for the occasion is to lambast the media and leave, in an intentional \u201cmic-drop moment\u201d \u2013 \u201cwhich I think would be disappointing\u201d, said Kimmel.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the first time Trump is even going to the correspondents\u2019 dinner as president,\u201d he added, \u201cbut he doesn\u2019t have to worry about being made fun of, because the event isn\u2019t being hosted by a comedian this year.\u201d Instead, the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association hired mentalist Oz Pearlman to perform. \u201cIt breaks with many years of tradition \u2013 at the correspondents\u2019 dinner, typically someone funny shows up and roasts the luminaries and the president and everyone,\u201d Kimmel explained. \u201cBut our president is a delicate snowflake with the thinnest fat skin of any human being ever, and that means there\u2019s going to be no comedian this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I thought, why not take a page from the Kid Rock alternative half-time show, and do some of the jokes a comedian might do if our president wasn\u2019t a trembling drama queen who\u2019s scared of comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel then took the podium for his own alternative White House correspondents\u2019 dinner roast, targeting the president and his minions. \u201cWe\u2019ll get you all dressed up in formal wear, dresses, tuxedos. I haven\u2019t seen this much black since every page of the Trump-Epstein files,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re gonna have fun tonight, and I\u2019m happy you decided to stay, Mr President. And don\u2019t worry if we bruise your ego, it\u2019ll only make your hands look less disgusting.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the unfortunate event that our president has a medical emergency tonight, do we have a doctor in the house? I\u2019m sorry. I mean, do we have a Jesus in the house? I always confuse them, too,\u201d he added. \u201cI get why you think you\u2019re Jesus. This guy, every time he walks into a room, people say, \u2018Christ, he\u2019s back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Some other gems included: \u201cPresident Trump has accomplished so much during his second term. He passed new incentives for oil and gas. He put the brakes on solar and wind. That will be your legacy, sir, breaking wind and passing gas.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Kimmel also took aim at several in Trump\u2019s cabinet, including adviser Stephen Miller, who he called \u201cso racist. The reason he went bald is because his hair was black. Stephen Miller puts the \u2018cist\u2019 in white supremacist. He\u2019s like if baby Hitler traveled in time to kill us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert<\/p>\n

On the Late Show, former WHCA dinner roast comic Stephen Colbert<\/a> also addressed the upcoming gala. \u201cThe word is, after he rips the press corps a new one, Trump is going to immediately leave so that he will miss the annual presentation of press awards,\u201d he reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I can understand why he\u2019s going to dip, because one of these awards \u2013 and this is true \u2013 is going to the Wall Street Journal for its scoop about a certain birthday pube doodle for Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d he added, referring to the infamous birthday card Trump wrote the convicted sex offender with lines in the shape of a woman\u2019s body and his signature in the pubic region.<\/p>\n

Colbert also touched on the fact that, contrary to tradition, there will be no comic present this year to roast the president; instead of a comedian, the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association hired mentalist Oz Pearlman.<\/p>\n

In an interview before his performance, Pearlman hinted that Trump won\u2019t just be watching but participating in his act, as \u201creading Donald Trump\u2019s mind is arguably the most impressive thing you could ever do.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cReally? Reading his mind?\u201d Colbert mused. \u201cWhen has he not immediately blurted out whatever is just rattling around in his skull.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/p>\n

And on Late Night, Seth Meyers<\/a> checked in on Trump\u2019s disaster in Iran as his children enrich themselves with taxpayer money. \u201cSo the president\u2019s family is dining at the taxpayer trough,\u201d he said, \u201cmeanwhile the rest of us are getting hit with price hikes and supply shortages as a result of Trump\u2019s war with Iran.\u201d<\/p>\n

Average gas prices are up a dollar since 1 March; jet fuel prices have nearly doubled, a dozen major carriers have cut flights and Spirit airlines is nearing bankruptcy and a possible government bailout. \u201cMan, I knew Donald Trump was on tilt, but I didn\u2019t think he\u2019d buy Spirit Airlines,\u201d Meyers joked. \u201cImagine if things were going bad already and your spouse came home and told you that.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo now we might spend half a billion dollars to bail out an airline because of a war we started, and even Republicans are mad.\u201d On X, Ted Cruz called the potential bailout \u201can absolutely TERRIBLE idea\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd remember, this is Ted Cruz,\u201d said Meyers. \u201cTed Cruz has Donald Trump\u2019s back all the time, and even he can\u2019t go with him on this. He\u2019s like, \u2018Mr President, you need to focus on bringing prices down,\u2019 and Trump\u2019s, like \u2018I have a plan. The federal government is going to take over TJ Maxx. Ted, it\u2019s the Maxx for the minimum, Ted!\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump knows how much of a mess this is,\u201d Meyers continued, \u201cand he\u2019s so desperate to wriggle his way out of it that now he\u2019s threatening to shoot at Iranian ships in the strait of Hormuz, and generally just posting like a maniac.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a lengthy and erratic Truth Social post, Trump called for the sinking of ships in the strait at a \u201ctripled up\u201d level.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain, my man is on tilt,\u201d Meyers joked. \u201cHe sounds like a degenerate gambler who\u2019s losing at the craps table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts imagined an alternative White House correspondents\u2019 dinner roast and recapped Donald Trump\u2019s latest erratic threats on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-416394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}