{"id":166360,"date":"2025-12-03T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166360\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:13:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-on-the-trump-administration-they-have-better-quality-cabinets-at-ikea-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/166360\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel on the Trump administration: \u2018They have better-quality cabinets at Ikea\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts tore into Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s five-hour Truth Social posting spree and his inability to stay awake during cabinet meetings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> wasted no time in returning to his favorite target \u2013 Donald Trump \u2013 on Tuesday evening. \u201cI know I\u2019ve said this before, but for real this time: he went completely off the rails last night,\u201d the host began. \u201cThe man who is allegedly running the country banged out an onslaught of posts and reposts in a furious social media blitzkrieg that started at 7.09pm, went nonstop until almost midnight.\u201d<\/p>\n

In that five-hour span on Monday night, Kimmel noted, the president posted 116 times, at an average of every two minutes. \u201cDo you know how long you have to be on the toilet to post that much?\u201d he laughed. \u201cI mean, what is he eating?\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel then mocked Trump\u2019s press-friendly cabinet meeting on Tuesday, in which he baselessly and impossibly claimed that revenue from his tariffs would lead to the elimination of the US income tax. \u201cWell, he would know \u2013 he hasn\u2019t paid income tax in, what, 50 years?\u201d Kimmel noted. \u201cDoes anyone believe we\u2019re not going to have income tax to pay? This is like the kid running for student council who promises soda in the drinking fountains. It makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

During the meeting, Trump also pushed back on a recent New York Times report that he had cut back on public appearances because he\u2019s showing signs of fatigue. \u201cWhich is ridiculous. Does this look like a man who is showing signs of fatigue?\u201d Kimmel joked before clips of Trump appearing to fall asleep at the meeting, even dozing off during a presentation by the gravelly voiced Robert F Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, if you can sleep through that voice, you are tired. You are fatigued,\u201d he said. \u201cOf course he\u2019s tired \u2013 he was up all night posting!\u201d<\/p>\n

Kimmel then launched into a blistering summary of the Trump cabinet in attendance: \u201cWe have a twice-baked RFK Jr, who is now embroiled in a sex-and-drug scandal with a reporter nearly 40 years his junior. Our secretary of war is murdering unidentified civilians and trying to throw the admiral who is following orders under the boat. The director of the FBI is reportedly using a private jet for personal travel with his country music star girlfriend and delayed a murder investigation until somebody brought him an FBI jacket that fit his little body.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got the attorney general turning the justice department into the Keystone Cops,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have a wrestling magnate running the Department of Education who wants to get rid of the Department of Education. Our director of homeland security somehow has made killing a puppy the least controversial thing she\u2019s done. She\u2019s busy rounding up college girls and deporting them to God knows where. And our healthcare is in the vitamin supplement-powered hands of Dr Oz.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey have better-quality cabinets at Ikea,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n

Stephen Colbert<\/p>\n

The year 2025 has \u201cbeen a rough one\u201d, said Stephen Colbert<\/a> on Tuesday\u2019s Late Show. \u201cI mean, obviously, there\u2019s no one to blame for that, other than Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd a lot of people are,\u201d he said, citing a new Gallup poll that found the president\u2019s approval rating has dropped to 36%, with 60% disapproval. \u201cWhich is why Trump has started wearing a new hat: \u2018More Popular Than Syphilis\u2019,\u201d Colbert joked.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo Trump is underwater in every category,\u201d he continued, showing specific disapproval numbers on the economy, healthcare, the Epstein files, education and the environment. \u201cDonald Trump is also the most hated Zootopia character, the lowest-rated midsize sedan and the least popular Oreo flavor, double-stuffed cankle,\u201d Colbert quipped.<\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s worst bugbear as president remains the cost of living for average Americans. \u201cHe has been trying everything he can think of, which is not much,\u201d said Colbert. On Tuesday, in one of his \u201cweird cabinet meetings\u201d that lasted three hours, Trump \u201caddressed the affordability crisis head-on\u201d.<\/p>\n

Specifically, Trump dismissed the concept of \u201caffordability\u201d as a \u201ccon job by the Democrats\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of the many con job words made up by the Democrats, like democracy, dementia and da-Epstein files,\u201d Colbert joked.<\/p>\n

Colbert also commented on Trump appearing to nap during his own cabinet meeting. \u201cLet\u2019s be fair \u2013 maybe he\u2019s so old that he fell asleep in an afternoon meeting, or maybe he just closed his eyes to better concentrate on filling his adult diaper,\u201d he speculated. \u201cThen, he fell asleep.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Daily Show<\/p>\n

And on The Daily Show, Desi Lydic checked in on the self-proclaimed \u201csecretary of war\u201d, Pete Hegseth, now in hot water for authorizing strikes on supposedly suspected drug-runner boats off the coast of Venezuela. Members of both parties and experts have said that the strikes constitute war crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s one thing we know: if somebody did something wrong, he\u2019s going to man up and take responsibility as the secretary of war,\u201d Lydic deadpanned.<\/p>\n

Hegseth, naturally, placed the blame squarely on his commander, Adm Mitch Bradley. On X, Hegseth wrote: \u201cI stand by him and the combat decisions he has made \u2013 on the September 2 mission and all others since.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a little bitch,\u201d said Lydic. \u201cBlaming someone by pretending to praise them? \u2018I stand by him and all the decisions he made on his own, while I was out of the room. If you want to get to him, you\u2019re going to have to get through me \u2013 and I will let you do that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI also love how Pete\u2019s pre-blaming Bradley for \u2018all the others since\u2019,\u201d she added. \u201cSo yeah, things are starting to look a little dicey for the secretary of defensiveness, but Pete is fighting back the way a true warrior does: with memes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hegseth posted an image of Franklin the Turtle, a children\u2019s character, shooting at a boat from a helicopter. \u201cThis whole image is deeply disturbing,\u201d said Lydic. \u201cEspecially the part where the turtle is wearing a helmet \u2013 why is he wearing a helmet? His whole body is a helmet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts tore into Donald Trump\u2019s five-hour Truth Social posting spree and his inability to stay awake during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-166360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}