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Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump’s new plaques in his Presidential Walk of Fame, many of which attack Trump’s former adversaries
“It takes a special kind of lunatic to get his insults cast in bronze,” Kimmel said on the Dec. 17 show
Kimmel has been a longstanding foe of Trump’s, as the president has repeatedly called for Jimmy Kimmel Live! to be canceled
Jimmy Kimmel is taking a swing at Donald Trump‘s new Presidential Walk of Fame.
The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host, 58, gave his two cents on the president’s latest White House alteration: new partisan plaques added below the presidential portraits in the Presidential Walk of Fame he had installed earlier this year. The plaques contain numerous insults and baseless accusations, attacking Trump’s past adversaries.
“It takes a special kind of lunatic to get his insults cast in bronze,” Kimmel said on the Dec. 17 show, adding, “Can we please put this man in a home before he completely destroys the one he’s in now?”
Before delving into some of the plaques’ contents, Kimmel ensured viewers that “this is not a bit,” and that these words are legitimately hanging in the White House.
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Trump’s ‘Presidential Walk of Fame’ in the White House.
Throughout the numerous plaques, Trump’s rhetoric contains many falsehoods and attacks rooted in his disdain for each president, like his claim that former President Barack Obama “spied” on his campaign and that former President Joe Biden “brought our Nation to the brink of destruction.”
Trump’s plaque for Biden includes his “Sleepy Joe” nickname for the former president, and accuses him of overseeing “a series of unprecedented disasters” and causing “the highest inflation ever recorded.” In addition, Biden’s portrait has been replaced with one of an autopen, a device commonly used by presidents but for which Trump repeatedly attacked Biden for using.
Obama’s plaque accuses him of bringing about a “stagnant Economy” and crippling small businesses, and being “one of the most divisive political figures in American history.”
Kimmel said that the “vapid Sephora goblin Karoline Leavitt,” the White House press secretary, said Trump — a “student of history” — wrote many of the plaques himself. “Yeah, no kidding! Who else would write that?” Kimmel quipped.
“It’s like Dickipedia, each entry,” Kimmel said, drawing applause from an enthusiastic crowd. “I will say, in fairness, they weren’t all unflattering. The plaques he made about himself are very positive.”
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Barack Obama’s plaque in Trump’s ‘Presidential Walk of Fame.’
In most plaques, the description circles back to Trump’s opinion of the political figure. Trump “even worked himself into the Reagan plaque,” Kimmel shared. The last two sentences explain that former President Ronald Reagan and Trump were mutual fans of each other, “long before President Trump’s historic run for the White House.”
“Ronald Reagan died in 2004. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, 10 years before that,” Kimmel remarked. “What was he a fan of, exactly? Trump’s Pizza Hut commercials?”
Kimmel has been a longstanding adversary of Trump’s, due to his unfiltered political commentary on the president, with Trump repeatedly calling for Kimmel’s show to be canceled. Their feud was exacerbated when Jimmy Kimmel Live! was briefly pulled from air in September following the death of one of Trump’s allies, late conservative podcaster Charlie Kirk.
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