{"id":472814,"date":"2026-05-29T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472814\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T09:38:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-hits-trump-with-a-damning-reality-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/472814\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Hits Trump With A Damning Reality Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTrump\u2019s approval numbers, like his testicles, have sunk to an all-time low,\u201d Kimmel said, citing a new <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=38395X987171&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=6a190d18e4b005ae417fab71&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fyougov.com%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F54850-donald-trump-drops-to-a-new-low-for-presidential-job-approval-may-22-26-2026-economist-yougov-poll\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Economist\/YouGov poll\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a190d18e4b005ae417fab71\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=38395X987171&amp;xs=1&amp;xcust=6a190d18e4b005ae417fab71&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fyougov.com%2Fen-us%2Farticles%2F54850-donald-trump-drops-to-a-new-low-for-presidential-job-approval-may-22-26-2026-economist-yougov-poll\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Economist\/YouGov poll<\/a> that finds the president at 34%. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has the same approval rating as \u2018Paul Blart: Mall Cop,\u2019\u201d Kimmel said, citing the much-maligned 2009 Kevin James movie with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/paul_blart_mall_cop\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"34% on Rotten Tomatoes\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a190d18e4b005ae417fab71\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/paul_blart_mall_cop\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">34% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not the only indignity hiding in the data. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s also two points behind JD Vance,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cI don\u2019t have a joke for that. I just want to make sure he knows he\u2019s two points behind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/jd-vance\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"JD Vance\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a190d18e4b005ae417fab71\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/jd-vance\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"feed\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"11\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">JD Vance<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>See more in Kimmel\u2019s Thursday night monologue:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTrump\u2019s approval numbers, like his testicles, have sunk to an all-time low,\u201d Kimmel said, citing a new Economist\/YouGov&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[969,93,61,60,80773,3484,41878,282],"class_list":["post-472814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-j-d-vance","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-rotten-tomatoes","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472814","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=472814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}