Jimmy Kimmel broke down in tears during his opening monologue Wednesday night (November 6) after Donald Trump regained the presidency.
Kimmel began the broadcast in a light-hearted, almost encouraging tone with a skit about packing up his office to leave the country. “You heard, he has a list of enemies, do you think I'm not on that list?” he asked his buddy Guillermo Rodriguez.
But the monologue turned emotional as Kimmel choked up as he lamented what a “terrible night” it was for democracy.
“To be honest, last night was a terrible night. It was a terrible night for women, it was a terrible night for children, it was a terrible night for the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who keep this country going,” he said with tears in his eyes. spoke.
“For health care, for climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech,” he continued through tears. “It was a terrible night for the poor, the middle class, the elderly who rely on social security, our allies in Ukraine, and NATO.”
“It was a terrible night for everyone who voted against him,” he concluded his message to Trump supporters. And guess what? It was also a bad night for those who voted for him. They just don't realize it yet. ”
But Kimmel wasn't the only one who reportedly had a bad night. “It was a really miserable night for Melania,” he joked.
Despite the election results, the late night host added that this does not mean “storm the Capitol because you don't like the results.”
“I've been trying to come up with something positive. The best I can come up with is, we've been through something like this once before, and yes, this time it's probably worse, maybe “It would have been much worse, but I also think that maybe we'll look back and realize in the long run that this was what we needed to wake up to,” he told viewers.
But he came to a pretty frank conclusion about how he feels about Trump's re-election. “Perhaps the good part of all this is that he can't run again in 2028.”
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