💥 BREAKING NEWS: Jimmy Kimmel Turns Trump’s Midnight Meltdowns Into the Biggest Ratings Revenge in TV History ⚡.CT
Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago doing what he does best: turning a holiday greeting into a meltdown.
On Truth Social, he posted a “very happy Thanksgiving” message to “great American citizens and patriots”… then immediately spiraled into a rant about the country being “divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at.”
Jimmy Kimmel had one simple reply: they’re not laughing at America — they’re laughing at him.
And that’s the core of this entire story. What’s been playing out on live TV isn’t just late-night comedy. It’s a one-sided war where a sitting president obsessively hate-watches a comedian who keeps exposing him — and every time Trump tries to shut Kimmel down, Kimmel comes back even bigger.
For months, Trump’s physical and mental state has sparked alarm. Cameras have caught him nodding off in cabinet meetings, drifting off in press conferences, and struggling to stay awake even while other officials speak. His right hand has repeatedly appeared bruised, bandaged, and strangely discolored — like he’s desperately trying to hide something.
Democratic Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove publicly asked the question millions are whispering: is Trump secretly on Leqembi (referred to as “Lembi” in the segment) — an Alzheimer’s drug administered via IV, often through the hand, which can cause brain swelling, fatigue, and requires regular MRIs?
Midas Touch breaks down a local news story about a patient on Leqembi: biweekly IV infusions, constant monitoring, and MRI checks for brain bleeds. Then they line that up with Trump — the covered hand, the bandages, the mystery “preventative” MRI his doctor claimed he took.
Dr. Vin Gupta, a leading physician and head of Midas Health, shreds that excuse. There’s no such thing, he says, as a routine “preventative abdominal MRI” for a man Trump’s age. Radiologists he consulted say the same thing: it doesn’t exist as standard practice. And if Trump did get a whole-body MRI, why are they only talking about his heart and abdomen — and not the brain?
Meanwhile, Trump won’t stop bragging about repeatedly “acing” cognitive tests. Gupta points out how bizarre it is: no neurologist recommends taking those simple screening tests as often as Trump claims. Boasting about it isn’t a flex — it’s a red flag.
But if you really want to understand why Trump is unraveling, you have to go back to March 10, 2024 — Oscars night.
Trump hate-watched the show and launched a Truth Social tirade: calling Jimmy Kimmel the worst host ever, saying he was “less than average” and “trying too hard.”
Instead of ignoring it, Kimmel did the unthinkable: he pulled out his phone on stage, read Trump’s post word for word to a packed Dolby Theatre and millions watching at home, then hit back with:
“Thank you, President Trump. I’m surprised you’re still up. Isn’t it past your jail time?”
The crowd exploded. Kimmel’s producers and even his wife begged him not to do it. He did it anyway. That moment became one of the most viral Oscars clips in history — Trump meant to humiliate Kimmel, and instead became the punchline.
The feud escalated from there. When Trump beat Kamala Harris in 2024, Kimmel went on air visibly shattered:
“We had the choice between a prosecutor and a criminal, and we chose the criminal,” he said, fighting back tears, before listing all the groups he believed would suffer — women, immigrants, the poor, seniors, allies, democracy itself.
Trump kept feeding him material: pardoning a Honduran ex-president tied to massive cocaine trafficking while ordering boats of alleged low-level smugglers blown up at sea; embracing a Fox host nicknamed “Pistol Pete” who reportedly ordered survivors of a strike to be killed; rambling, slurring, and nodding off while pretending everything is “perfect.”
Then came the breaking point.
In September 2025, after Kimmel joked about Trump’s reaction to the assassination of Charlie Kirk, FCC chairman Brendan Carr called Kimmel’s behavior “the sickest conduct possible” and threatened ABC. Within hours, conservative-owned station groups like Nexstar and Sinclair pulled Jimmy Kimmel Live from their airwaves. Disney suspended him.
Trump celebrated online, praising ABC for “finally doing what had to be done” and demanding NBC fire Seth Meyers and Jimmy Fallon next.
But the blowback was instant and volcanic. Hundreds of celebrities signed an ACLU-backed letter condemning the move. Disney+ was hit with a wave of cancellations. Disney’s market value dropped by billions. Even Republican Senator Ted Cruz compared the FCC’s behavior to the mafia.
Six days later, Kimmel came back. His return episode shattered records: over 6.26 million live viewers, and more than 26 million views on social media within 24 hours. Trump had tried to cancel him — and instead turned him into the most powerful late-night voice in America.
Since then, Kimmel has only hit harder.
He mocked Trump calling Illinois Governor JB Pritzker a “big fat slob” during a turkey pardon, ridiculed Trump’s Thanksgiving rant by noting that “gas station bathrooms on Yelp have higher approval ratings” than the president, and roasted him for literally falling asleep during cabinet meetings while still calling Biden “Sleepy Joe.”
And when Trump called a Bloomberg reporter “quiet piggy” for asking about Jeffrey Epstein, Kimmel threw it right back at him on national TV: “And until then… quiet piggy.”
Trump keeps demanding that Kimmel be fired. He posts in the middle of the night, 12:49 a.m., clearly watching live. Kimmel thanks him for the ratings and even offers a deal: “I’ll go when you go.”
Here’s the devastating truth:
Trump cannot stop watching the guy who makes the world laugh at him.
Every attack, every tantrum, every late-night Truth Social post just hands Jimmy Kimmel more material, more views, more leverage.
And for a man who needs applause more than oxygen, there is no worse punishment than being turned into a global joke — night after night, live on TV.
