{"id":544270,"date":"2026-03-25T11:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544270\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T11:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T11:56:08","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-nails-trumps-biggest-lie-with-an-easy-fact-check","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/544270\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Nails Trump&#8217;s Biggest Lie With An Easy Fact Check"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMail-in voting means mail-in cheating,\u201d the president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/donald-trump-mail-voting-strategy-experts_l_68a5db47e4b08e59891e86a0\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"falsely\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69c36a98e4b081f8eb138eae\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"68a5db47e4b08e59891e86a0\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"buzz\" data-vars-type=\"web_internal_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">falsely<\/a> claimed earlier this week. \u201cI call it mail-in cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right. He prefers in-person cheating,\u201d Kimmel cracked. \u201cPreferably <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/news\/topic\/stormy-daniels\" target=\"_blank\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-internal-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"with a porn star\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"69c36a98e4b081f8eb138eae\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"\/news\/topic\/stormy-daniels\" 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=\"4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">with a porn star<\/a> shortly after his wife gives birth.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Trump also claimed this week \u2015 as he has before \u2015 that the United States is \u201cthe only country that does mail-in voting.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>But as Kimmel noted, that\u2019s flat-out false. <\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s not even close to the biggest problem with Trump\u2019s claims. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOK, so here\u2019s where the real magic comes in,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cGuess what he did today? That\u2019s right: He voted by mail today for the special election in Florida.\u201d (Palm Beach County voter records showed his mail-in ballot had been received and counted for Tuesday\u2019s special election for state legislative seats.)<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel called it \u201cunbelievable.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump claiming he wants to protect election integrity is like Bill Cosby telling you he\u2019ll watch your drink for you,\u201d Kimmel said.<\/p>\n<p>See more in his Tuesday night monologue: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMail-in voting means mail-in cheating,\u201d the president falsely claimed earlier this week. \u201cI call it mail-in cheating.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[23365,12,88,17114,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-544270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-bill-cosby","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}