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Jimmy Kimmel reflected on “another crazy day here in the United States of America” and celebrated the fact that Donald Trump hadn’t destroyed an entire civilization – even though he had promised exactly that that same day.
“We’re broadcasting from Los Angeles, where it’s just after 5 p.m. – Trump’s deadline for Iran to ‘open the damn road or you’ll live in hell,'” Kimmel said. “He had set a hard deadline: right now. This morning he wrote: ‘An entire civilization will die tonight and never rise again.’ … This is the same man who was just whining about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize. And now he is threatening a civilization with death. From Mahatma Gandhi to General Zod – faster than you can see.”
He noted that people in Iran spent the entire day wondering whether they would survive that night. “Well, good news: You have it,” Kimmel said. “It was the Taco Tuesday of all Taco Tuesdays. Our president has decided not to drop the chalupa for at least another two weeks.”
Trump’s pattern of threats
He added: “That’s what happens every single time Trump spouts some kind of madness. He says, ‘I’m going to kill everyone tomorrow at 5 p.m.’ Then we all go crazy and then he rows back. He’s like, ‘You know what? I’ll kill everyone in two weeks.’ Then we relax, and then he forgets he ever said that. He has the memory and skin color of a goldfish.”
Kimmel noted that with Trump it’s “always two weeks.” “He’s like a conscientious employee,” the host joked. “He always gives two weeks’ notice.”
Kimmel explained that despite Trump’s continued threats, “no one can see any plan.”
War crimes and Mar-a-Lago
“In the afternoon, the White House press secretary said that only the president knows how things are and what he will do,” Kimmel said. “And I don’t even think he knows that himself. Trump said he’s going to devastate Iranian power plants so that they burn and explode and can never be used again. Just like the toilets at Mar-a-Lago. And attacks on civilian power plants are a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. I guess he’s thinking: He’s already committed all the other crimes – he can add the war crimes too.”
