It was nonetheless months earlier than the 2016 presidential election that Jimmy Kimmel says an early warning from then-candidate Hillary Clinton stopped him chilly.
The late evening host was chatting with the previous secretary of state on his TV program when he stated her remark about Donald Trump’s presidential prospects left him as shocked as when he heard O.J. Simpson was acquitted of homicide, in response to an interview printed Tuesday with Rolling Stone.
“I said to Hillary during a commercial break, ‘I hope Trump gets the nomination. I think he’ll be a slam-dunk for you,’” he recalled, suggesting that Trump could be a straightforward candidate for her to beat.
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“And she said, ‘Be careful what you wish for,’” he stated, calling that his “Oh, shit, this is serious” second.
“Listen, when O.J. was found not guilty, I was just absolutely shocked. I had that same feeling. I had this faith in America that was shaken, and I still am not over it. I thought that when it comes down to it, this country, we do the right thing. That’s obviously in the past,” he stated.
Kimmel, who right this moment routinely lampoons Trump and his administration on his TV program — reasoning “there’s always material” — stated his disillusionment with politics has solely grown lately.
Quite than hoping he can educate viewers who will not be being attentive to what’s occurring round them, as he could have completed a yr in the past, he stated, “Now I see myself more as a place to scream.”
One such early disappointment, he stated, was him feeling like he had made headway on his program in 2017 with Sen. Invoice Cassidy whereas discussing Republicans’ efforts to repeal the Reasonably priced Care Act. The Louisiana Republican on air assured Kimmel, whose son was born with a congenital coronary heart defect, that any well being care invoice proposed by his occasion would cross “the Jimmy Kimmel test.” Kimmel later accused Cassidy of mendacity to his face.
“When I spoke to Bill Cassidy on the air, I thought, ‘This man is a doctor. He understands this better than most politicians,’ and I felt that he was going to seize that moment and make himself a hero to Americans by doing the right thing, and I was quite surprised that he didn’t,” he advised Rolling Stone.
Kimmel stated he “will always be grateful” to the late Arizona Sen. John McCain (R) for breaking along with his occasion to vote in opposition to repealing so-called Obamacare, regardless of it drawing unending scorn from Trump.
It’s that unrelenting vindictiveness that Kimmel stated has left Republicans afraid of standing as much as Trump. However that’s to not say that he doesn’t suppose liberals additionally performed a job in giving Trump the facility that he has right this moment.
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Liberals’ fake outrage and use of cancel tradition, significantly with regards to criticism of comedians, is a “big part” of why Trump was elected a second time, Kimmel stated.
“I think a lot of the outrage is completely manufactured, and it’s like, a lot of these people who are angry aren’t really angry. I think these liberals who’ve done such a good job of viciously attacking comedians are a big part of the reason why Trump is the president right now,” he stated.
However the greatest motive he thinks Trump beat Kamala Harris, “more than anything,” he stated, is that Trump’s a celeb, “and it’s hard to compete with that.”
