{"id":631549,"date":"2026-10-15T16:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631549\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T16:32:12","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-on-trumps-ai-generated-social-media-content-i-guess-maybe-hes-bored-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/631549\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel on Trump\u2019s AI-generated social media content: \u2018I guess maybe he\u2019s bored?\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

With other hosts on holiday, Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> checked in on Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s antics, online and off, with just three weeks to go until the US midterm elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re three weeks away from the midterm elections, and the president is laser-focused,\u201d joked Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday evening. In reality, the president \u201cspent part of his afternoon yesterday posting videos of humans getting attacked by animals\u201d, including a real clip of a man getting mauled<\/a> to death by a tiger at a South Yorkshire zoo last week, after he scaled a fence and entered the enclosure.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure the guy\u2019s family was thrilled to see Trump having fun with it,\u201d Kimmel continued. \u201cBut he needed it to set up this delightful AI video \u2013 I\u2019m sorry, SI video \u2013 of himself wrestling and ultimately taming a tiger of his own.\u201d In the AI-generated clip, Trump chases, tackles and eventually hugs a tiger. \u201cThe most unrealistic part of that video is him running,\u201d Kimmel quipped.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess maybe he\u2019s bored?\u201d he added. \u201cHow could you be president and be bored, I have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, as congressional races heat up across the country, Trump resumed his preferred mode: on the campaign trail. The president held two rallies on Wednesday, in Arizona and Montana. \u201cYou know, it used to be when an 80-year-old traveled between Montana and Arizona, it was to beat their tuberculosis,\u201d Kimmel joked.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut if anyone was worried about his brain, don\u2019t,\u201d he added. \u201cHe\u2019s good. He\u2019s giving himself cognitive tests and he\u2019s passing them with flying colors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though no one was asking for it, Trump reassured attenders at his Arizona rally that he was continually acing a cognitive test in which the subject repeats a list of five words back to the doctor. He provided an example: \u201chat, hair, logo, white, black,\u201d which he then repeated before claiming he \u201caced\u201d the test.<\/p>\n

\u201cSir, you aced this test you just made up,\u201d Kimmel deadpanned. \u201cThis is the test you would give your grandfather after he fell off his stepladder.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later in his speech, Trump again boasted about his cognitive test abilities. \u201cThey say very few people can do it, and almost none can do them in order like that,\u201d he said. \u201cBut I can, you know why? Because I\u2019m a frickin\u2019 genius, that\u2019s why.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd if you believe that, then you will also believe I\u2019m sending you $5,000 apiece,\u201d Kimmel added. \u201cWho wants to see a genius dance to the Village People, huh?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With other hosts on holiday, Jimmy Kimmel checked in on Donald Trump\u2019s antics, online and off, with just…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-631549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631549","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=631549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}