Jimmy Kimmel has returned from a one-week break, diving straight back into our ongoing hellscape by addressing President Donald Trump‘s behaviour during the Easter holiday. On Easter Sunday, Trump published a post on Truth Social threatening a large-scale attack on Iran’s power plants and bridges this Tuesday. He subsequently followed it up with a post that simply read, “Tuesday, 8 P.M. Eastern Time!”
“He’s the only president who teases a bombing the same way ABC promotes new episodes of Will Trent,” quipped Kimmel.
Trump was also his usual verbose self at the White House’s annual Easter Egg Roll. In a moment Kimmel considered among the “most preposterous” in the event’s history, Trump gave a speech about the U.S.’ war with Iran while standing next to a person in an Easter Bunny costume. The president then griped about former president Joe Biden to a group of literal children.
“I want to assure you the words you are about to hear coming out of the president’s mouth were not altered,” said Kimmel. “We did not script this. This is not AI or a Donald Trump impersonator.”
Specifically, Trump complained to the children about Joe Biden’s use of an autopen, a machine that can sign documents on an individual’s behalf. Though it is legal for presidents to sign bills with an autopen, last March Trump cited its use as justification for voiding pardons that Biden had issued. Under the U.S. Constitution, a pardon does not need to be written or signed to be effective.
“It’s hard to believe it was only a week off,” said Kimmel. “It seems like we’ve been gone for a year. So much stuff happened while we were off.”
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