Jimmy Kimmel slams Trump’s primetime speech as ’18 straight minutes of him yelling’

Jimmy Kimmel gave an emotional speech on his show to end a turbulent year, including his late show being targeted by Donald Trump and Kimmel and his colleagues suffering a tragic personal loss.

Meanwhile, the night’s major topic for late-night show hosts was the president’s primetime address from the White House on Thursday, an 18-minute speech that Kimmel also opened with.

“The President had limited time – his speech was interrupting the season finale survivor – So he went a mile a minute. he was crying. He was running through the script. It took him 18 minutes of continuous screaming. It was like the whole country got to experience what it’s like to be Eric in eighth grade.”

During the speech, Trump repeated false claims that have been debunked, from his statement that “inflation has stopped, wages have gone up, prices have gone down,” to his claim that he has “solved eight wars in 10 months.”

“There were a lot of lies,” Kimmel said. “Eleven fact checkers died watching that speech last night. They packed a lot of nonsense into 18 minutes.”

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