đ„ BREAKING NEWS: Trump MELTS DOWN After Jimmy Kimmel and Bill Maher Turn His Turkey Pardon Into a National Roast on Live TV âĄ.CT
Donald Trump wanted a feel-good Thanksgiving moment.
What he got instead was a two-front televised humiliation from Jimmy Kimmel and Bill Maher that turned a turkey pardon into a full-blown national roast.
It all started with what shouldâve been a corny, forgettable White House tradition: pardoning two turkeys named Gobble and Waddle. Trump steps up to the mic and instantly makes it weird. He jokes he was going to name the birds âChuck and Nancyâ but decided he âwould never pardon those two people,â even if Melania begged him.
Cute? Not exactly.
Kimmel immediately seized on it.
He replayed the clip and mocked Trump for dragging his grudges into a turkey ceremony, then imagined Melania asking him, âDarling, why do you throw up when I open my robe?â The audience lost it. In a few seconds, Kimmel turned a presidential moment into a sitcom scene about a man who loves resentment more than he loves reality.
And that was just the warm-up.
Bill Maher Turns the Press Conference Into a Psych Evaluation
On his show, Bill Maher picked up the baton. He zeroed in on Trumpâs wild press conference claims â especially the one where Trump insisted there had been no murders in Washington, D.C. in six months because of him.
Reality: there had been dozens.
Maher shredded the fantasy. He joked about Trump gazing in the mirror and genuinely seeing a âthinâ man, then compared his worldview to a movie where the main character rewrites the script as he goes. The crowd roared as Maher dismantled the delusion, line by line.
He didnât treat it like politics. He treated it like what it was:
a man starring in his own imaginary film.
From there, Maher moved to the next level of absurdity: Republicans trying to rename airports after Trump, push his face toward Mount Rushmore, and cosplay his look â the long red tie, the stiff suit, the exaggerated swagger. He said the movement now looked less like a party and more like a traveling Trump tribute act, complete with uniforms.
Kimmel Turns Turkeys, Grudges and Crypto Into Viral Gold
Back on Kimmel, the turkey ceremony got replayed again â this time with extra venom. Trump, dramatically pardoning Gobble and Waddle as if heâs freeing political prisoners, became late-night gold.
Kimmel mocked the moment where Trump proudly declares the birds âhereby unconditionally pardoned,â then joked that theyâd probably be indicted for crypto fraud in six months. The line hit social media like a grenade.
Kimmel also tore into Trumpâs habit of padding every ceremony with an insult. He highlighted how Trump used even this lighthearted event to call a Democratic governor a âfat slob,â then pretended he doesnât talk about peopleâs weight â while literally doing it in the same breath.
âI donât know if thatâs sarcasm or short-term memory loss,â Maher quipped later. Either way, the picture was clear: Trump couldnât decide if he was playing president, stand-up comic, or internet troll.
Epstein, Prince Andrew and the Photos He âDoesnât Rememberâ
Then the tone shifted.
Kimmel dug into Trumpâs âI donât know himâ defense about Prince Andrew, pointing to photos showing Trump, Andrew, and Ghislaine Maxwell all in the same frame â complete with Epstein looming in the background.
He mocked Trumpâs sudden empathy for the royal family while his policies hurt families back home, likening it to Bill Cosby feeling bad for someone losing a TV deal. It was dark, uncomfortable, and brutally effective.
Maher built on it, calling out Trumpâs selective compassion: concern for princes and billionaires, indifference toward people losing food stamps, benefits, or basic stability. The jokes landed â but so did the implication: Trumpâs priorities are as upside-down as his facts.
Everything He Touches Tanks â Even the Kennedy Center
Maher then brought up a more obscure but devastating example: ticket sales at the Kennedy Center plummeting after Trump installed himself as chairman of the board. Sales reportedly dropped from around 93% to 57%.
Maher branded it part of the âeverything he touches diesâ effect.
Kimmel followed by mocking Trumpâs bizarre bragging posts about âmagnificent columnsâ and âLincoln toiletsâ at the Kennedy Center, as if slapping his aesthetic on a cultural institution somehow made it great again. The visual: a man proudly redecorating a building while the audience quietly stops showing up.
A President as an Unwilling Comedy Franchise
By the end of the night, Kimmel and Maher had done something unusual: two separate shows, two different styles â but one perfectly synchronized demolition job.
They painted Trump as:
- A man who inserts petty vendettas into turkey pardons
- A leader who lies with total confidence, even when reality is one Google away
- A performer trapped between strongman fantasies and accidental slapstick
- The center of a movement that now dresses like him, talks like him, and sinks like him
Their combined monologues left viewers laughing, stunned, and sharing clip after clip.
The message underneath the comedy was clear:
Trump isnât just a politician anymore. Heâs a running joke with real power â and late night is done pretending otherwise.
