{"id":668001,"date":"2026-10-28T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668001\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T17:26:09","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-on-trumps-midterms-mindset-if-his-side-wins-elections-were-honest-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/668001\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel on Trump\u2019s midterms mindset: \u2018If his side wins, elections were honest\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts looked into Republicans\u2019 efforts to discredit election results ahead of the US midterms<\/a> and Donald Trump Jr<\/a>\u2019s questionable friendship with a Putin-aligned oligarch.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

On Tuesday\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> Live!, the host opened with the latest wrinkle in a scandal involving the president\u2019s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, and Umar Kremlev<\/a>, a Russian oligarch who paid<\/a> for<\/a> some of the cost of renting a private island and staging a fireworks display for Don Jr\u2019s Bahamas wedding in May.<\/p>\n

The latest report<\/a> is that in August, \u201cDJTJ and his bro-ligarch went on a hunting trip together to Mongolia\u201d, Kimmel explained. During the trip, Trump\u2019s son reportedly shot and killed an Altai argali, the largest sheep in the world that is also an endangered species, \u201cso of course Junior jetted in to kill it, as is the Trump way<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the bigger issue is, this buddy of his is a close friend of Putin,\u201d Kimmel continued. \u201cThe son of an American president is pal-ing around Mongolia with a known Russian security asset. It raises very serious concerns about counter-intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if you think about it, pretty much everything the Trumps do is counter to intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel offered a theory on the questionable relationship: \u201cI believe this whole thing \u2013 the wedding, the hunting, all of it \u2013 is a big conspiracy cooked up to make it look like Don Jr has a friend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel then turned to next week\u2019s midterms, \u201cwhich will decide whether the Republicans<\/a> maintain control of Congress or whether it was stolen by a caravan of woke, dog-eating transgender immigrants\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou must get out and vote,\u201d he urged. \u201cEvery vote counts, assuming the Trump administration allows the states to count the votes,\u201d especially given that Trump\u2019s justice department will deploy<\/a> thousands of employees to \u201cobserve\u201d poll workers<\/a> as they count the votes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will say, there is something funny about Republicans accusing Democrats of<\/a> cheating<\/a> while their leader is offering<\/a> everyone $5,000 to vote Republican,\u201d Kimmel noted. \u201cEveryone\u2019s worried Trump is going to do something crazy if there\u2019s a big, beautiful, blue wave next week, but does this to you sound like a man who might refuse to accept the outcome of an election?\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if he would respect the results of the election, Trump answered<\/a>: \u201cI will \u2013 if they\u2019re honest elections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel offered a translation: \u201cIf his side wins, the elections were honest. If they lose, they were not. It\u2019s really very simple. I don\u2019t know what you people don\u2019t understand about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seth Meyers<\/p>\n

And on Late Night, Seth Meyers<\/a> opened with disbelief that the midterm elections are only a week away. \u201cHard to believe, isn\u2019t it?\u201d he said. \u201cOnly two more weeks until there\u2019s two more years until there\u2019s 90 days until the next insurrection.\u201d<\/p>\n

During a rally in Iowa last week, the Republican congressional candidate Joe Mitchell gave Trump the \u201cman of the century award\u201d, which Meyers pointed out is \u201cnot a real award\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s coming from someone who hosted the Golden Globes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mitchell claimed that he came up with the honor, delivered via framed certificate, himself. \u201cSorry, that\u2019s the award?\u201d Meyers laughed. \u201cFor being the best man of the whole century? That looks like he graduated from an eight-week computer class at night school.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other campaign news, while speaking to reporters on Saturday after voting early in Florida, Trump said that his uncle invented radar. \u201cAnd you know what that means: time to ace another cognitive exam<\/a>!\u201d Meyers quipped.<\/p>\n

And during a rally on Friday, Trump again said that he wanted to change the name of New Mexico to \u201cNew America<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDude, you can\u2019t call it \u2018New America\u2019 when it\u2019s in America,\u201d Meyers corrected. \u201cDo you think that Rome has a neighborhood called \u2018Little Italy\u2019? If anything, they might have a New America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts looked into Republicans\u2019 efforts to discredit election results ahead of the US midterms and Donald Trump…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":["post-668001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668001","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=668001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}