On Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel boldly went where the LA Times, the Washington Post and USA Today have feared to go: The late-night host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!
delivered what amounted to a 19-minute anti-endorsement for Donald Trump. Before launching a long series of clips using Trump’s own words, Kimmel said, “Tonight’s monologue is for Republicans” and asked his viewers to send the video to the Republicans in their lives. “Ask them to watch this whole thing as a personal favor to you,” he said, explaining that most people don’t have time to watch every Trump speech or keep up with the former president’s social media outbursts. “But this is all I have to do,” he joked. “We are very divided,” Kimmel said, “and not just because of Donald Trump, because of people like, if I’m being honest, me.
I do a lot of mocking and belittling, and it isn’t always productive. … Am I biased against Donald Trump? Yes. Do I think I have good reasons for being biased against him?
Yes. And I’m probably wrong, but I think when you hear some of those reasons, you might agree with me, even just a little bit.” At one point early on, Kimmel said, “Maybe there’s a little voice in the back your head saying, ‘I might not want this guy driving the bus.’ And if you’re one of those people who think Democrats are controlling the weather or Beyoncé eats baby skin, forget it.
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