Late-night hosts take aim at ex-president’s latest vicious remarks and ridicule his refusal to undergo a medical exam
Guardian staffTue 15 Oct 2024 10.56 EDTLast modified on Tue 15 Oct 2024 14.02 EDTShareLate-night hosts looked back at Donald Trump’s most recent, unhinged rallies and at the damage that some of his more harmful comments have had.
Jimmy KimmelOn Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host said that it “feels like the longest election campaign of all time” with just a few weeks left. He joked that we are now in the “somebody please put Trump in a home stretch”.
Kimmel said that at this stage “it’s hard to believe that anybody is going along with” the former president given his recent behaviour.
Trump recently visited Aurora, Colorado, a city he has demonised by claiming that Venezuelan immigrants have turned it into a war zone. He visited to “double down on his thoroughly debunked claims”.
Kimmel said that his latest round of fearmongering over immigrants should cause an update of his slogan to “make America Germany in the 1930s again”.
Trump has referred to immigrants as criminals and rapists and as Kimmel said, “that’s a man who knows rapists”.
He has also been calling his opponent Kamala Harris a range of vile things, including mentally disabled and, according to a New York Times report, retarded. “When they go low, they go really low,” he said.
In response to Trump being called a fascist, Kimmel added: “When is he gonna grow that little moustache already? There’s only three weeks left.”
Trump has recently doubled his support among Black men which led to him rambling at rallies about how much he loves Black men, “as long as they don’t try and live in one of my buildings”, added Kimmel.
Stephen ColbertOn The Late Show, Stephen Colbert started by talking about the medical report that showed Harris to be in excellent health. “It’s great that just the words excellent health kinda feel like a dig at Donald Trump,” he joked.
Trump has refused to undergo the same exam, which led Harris to claim at a recent rally that the reason was that he was “too weak and unstable to lead America”.
Colbert replied “yeah probably” and then added: “Or hear me out, it’s possible they just can’t find a doctor who is willing to do the exam.” At 78, Trump is the oldest man ever nominated by a major party.
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Colbert said that Trump had been telling “a lot of lies about a lot of things” including the conspiracy theories about Venezuelan immigrants in Aurora. He said that Trump went to Aurora “so he could threaten immigrants to their face”.
He also criticised him for “spreading vicious lies about Fema” during the two recent hurricanes and called his input “dumb, unhelpful and dangerous”.
