Jimmy Kimmel
On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host talked about the increased discussions over banning TikTok in the US, an app he said shows videos of “someone carving soap” followed by “a comment section asking what your feet look like”.
It’s based on a fears that the Chinese company ByteDance could be ordered by the communist government to turn over all the information it has on users. “If China figures out how to make spaghetti on a countertop, they’ll be unstoppable,” he joked.
He added that the Chinese don’t allow any of our social media platforms in their country, and only has a sanitised version of TikTok.
Kimmel moved on to say that “the clock is ticking on Donald Trump”, with the former president still at risk of being indicted over the hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
He said that Trump’s lawyers have told him to be “prepared to lose the case”. Kimmel joked that meant “he’ll spend the next three years claiming he won the case”.
He called it “day three of To Catch a President” since the president had claimed he would be arrested on Tuesday. Since then he has “demanded the removal of every top official investigating him” and ranted on social media about the corruption involved with the case. He referred to Michael Cohen as a “convicted nutjob” who shouldn’t be trusted.
Kimmel noted that the “convicted nutjob with zero credibility is his former lawyer, fixer and closest confidant for more than 10 years who was only convicted because he did something illegal for Donald Trump”.
Trump has also been raging against the Manhattan district attorney, Alvin Bragg. “I love the idea that a guy named Bragg might send him to jail,” he said. “The thing he loves to do most could send him up the river!”
Trump has also been speaking to his followers in a suggestive manner, hinting at a repeat of what happened on January 6 – yet Kimmel said he was deluded for thinking they were “going to fight a civil war over him”.
The past week has seen the Trump campaign receive $1.5m in donations, however. Kimmel joked that it was enough to pay off “12 more porn stars”.
