Jimmy Kimmel isn’t holding back when it comes to President Donald Trump’s critical remarks about late-night entertainment.
The 57-year-old Jimmy Kimmel Live host returned after a two-month summer break on Tuesday, Sept. 2, and opened his first program with an unedited monologue over 10 minutes long directed directly at the president, covering everything from viral health rumors to contentious White House renovations.
Kimmel’s critical statements come weeks after Trump, 79, began frequently assaulting the most renowned late-night shows, beginning in July with his glee at CBS canceling the top-rated Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
During the monologue, Kimmel addressed the persistent online claim that Trump had died over Labor Day weekend and poked fun at the president’s “big fat elephant ankles” and damaged hand, which had frequently been hidden with a cover-up that was, in Kimmel’s words, “even sloppier than the Epstein one.”
“Trump said he’s in great health, and he’s never felt better,” Kimmel added. “Despite the fact that he looks like a pumpkin that looks like it got left in the hatchback on a 100-degree day, he is definitely not dead.”
“Donald Trump will not die. Forget it!” He’s like Dracula,” Kimmel said. “He’s going to keep sucking the life out of us forever.”

Kimmel began the monologue with an edited clip of a Cabinet meeting in Washington, D.C., which featured a slew of over-the-top compliments for Trump from his top advisers, as well as an added-in Kimmel, who mirrored the rhetoric of the politicians at the table and claimed that Trump’s image made him “sexually aroused.”
Kimmel then began reading from his pre-written list of Trump’s moves this summer, each “crazier than the next,” including planning a UFC fight at the White House, sparring with the Smithsonian for documenting America’s slavery history, petitioning other world leaders to help him win the Nobel Peace Prize, and traveling to Alaska “to bend over for Putin.”
Kimmel then directly addressed Trump’s claims that Jimmy Kimmel Live will be the next late-night program to be canceled.
“Oh, you delicate, chubby little teacup,” Kimmel said. “Have we damaged your feelings? You want us to be canceled because we joke about you?”
“I thought you were against cancel culture?” he said. “I thought that was their entire thing. “When did you get so woke?”