Jimmy Kimmel addressed the U.S.-Iran ceasefire in his monologue Tuesday night, pointing to a recurring pattern in President Donald Trump’s negotiating tactics.
“The president has decided not to withdraw for at least another two weeks,” the host said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “He announced that he would give Iran two weeks to live, at the request of Pakistan, which has been facilitating the negotiations. It’s always like this. Trump says something insane. He says, ‘We’re going to kill everyone tomorrow at 5 p.m.,’ and we all freak out, and then he’s like, ‘Look, we’re actually going to kill everyone in two weeks.'” Then we relax, and he forgets he said it in the first place. He has the memory and skin color of a goldfish. ”
Kimmel later joked that Trump was like a “good employee” in that he “always gives two weeks’ notice.” It then cut to a series of videos in which Trump reiterated that he would follow through on his promise or learn more about sensitive topics within two weeks.
The late-night show host then quoted press secretary Caroline Leavitt as saying, “Only the president knows what’s going on and what he’s going to do.”
“And I can’t believe he knows that,” Kimmel joked. “President Trump said he would burn down and explode Iranian power plants and destroy them so they could never be used again. Just like the toilets at Mar-a-Lago.”
Kimmel added that if President Trump destroyed an Iranian power plant, it would be a “war crime under the Geneva Conventions.” Kimmel also pointed to President Trump’s remarks, saying, “Allowing a sick country with a crazy leader to have nuclear weapons is a war crime.”
Kimmel then quipped, “Then lock them up now, because that’s the ship we’re floating in right now.”
Watch the full monologue below.
