🔥 HOT NEWS: Trump reignites his feud with Jimmy Kimmel onstage — and Kimmel’s response flips the spotlight back on Trump ⚡.CT

Jimmy Kimmel opened his show with jokes about warm Los Angeles weather and kids obsessing over the number “67”—then slammed the brakes into something darker: a Trump rally speech in Pennsylvania that, in Kimmel’s words, barely resembled an economic message at all.

Kimmel described the event as long, rambling, and stuffed with familiar rally catchphrases — the kind of speech where the topic is “the economy” in name only, while the energy is pure grievance.

Late-night recaps noted the Pennsylvania appearance stretched close to three hours, and Kimmel zeroed in on what landed as the most tone-deaf line of all: Trump advising struggling families that their kids don’t need so many things — “a couple dolls” and “one or two pencils.”

To Kimmel, it sounded like a billionaire in a gold-plated room lecturing working parents about school supplies.

But the monologue wasn’t mainly about awkward budgeting advice. It was about how quickly the speech slid into offensiveness.

Kimmel highlighted Trump’s repeated claims about support from Black voters, mocking the way Trump framed it and calling it insulting. Then he moved to the moment that triggered an international backlash: Trump’s derogatory comments about Somalis and Somalia.

This wasn’t just late-night exaggeration. Reuters reported that Somalia’s defence minister publicly condemned Trump’s remarks after Trump insulted Somali migrants at the Pennsylvania rally, describing Somalia in demeaning terms and leaning into stereotypes around crime and piracy.

The blowback wasn’t subtle — it was government-level pushback, with Somalia rejecting what it viewed as sweeping, racist generalizations.

And just when the rally couldn’t get more volatile, Kimmel said Trump pivoted to one of his favorite hobbies: picking fights with comedians.

Onstage, Trump reportedly took a jab at late-night hosts and singled out Kimmel again — treating the host like a recurring villain in his political storyline.

Kimmel’s response was basically: “You’ve mentioned me multiple times in a few days… I’m thinking about you too.” The subtext was obvious: Trump can’t stop watching, can’t stop reacting, and can’t stop feeding the machine that mocks him.

Then came the part that made Kimmel drop the jokes and raise his voice: Trump’s health.

According to reporting summarized by The Daily Beast, Kimmel went “nuclear” over Trump’s condition and mocked a lengthy Truth Social post where Trump insisted he’s doing great, works harder than any president, and even bragged about taking multiple cognitive tests — as if taking three of them is a flex instead of a red flag.

Kimmel compared the post’s length to famous historic text, and ridiculed the idea that repeated testing signals strength rather than concern.

Kimmel also referenced the recurring public speculation about Trump’s visible hand bruising and bandaging — something that has drawn attention in photos and entertainment coverage throughout 2025.

Whether it’s serious or benign, the political problem is perception: when a leader is defensive about health while visibly “covering something up,” people don’t relax — they speculate harder.

By the end of Kimmel’s segment, the message was clear: Trump didn’t deliver a normal campaign-style address. He delivered a swirling cocktail of grievance, provocation, and self-mythology — with real-world fallout attached. The economy didn’t dominate the story. The insults did. The controversy did. The health brag did.

And in late-night terms, that’s the worst kind of “dominance”: not controlling the narrative — becoming it.