During the recent Thanksgiving week, Jimmy Kimmel’s famous late-night show turned into a real political comedy storm as the host held nothing back in targeting D.o.n.a.l.d T.r.u.m.p and key figures in the new administration. Kimmel kicked off his monologue with his signature sarcastic tone, declaring he was “most thankful that there are only five weeks left in this year” – a clear jab at the chaotic transition of power.

The first highlight was the traditional White House turkey pardon ceremony. The two lucky birds, named Gobble and Waddle, were spared, but Kimmel quickly turned them into weapons for a brutal roast. He called them “the only ones D.o.n.a.l.d T.r.u.m.p hasn’t pardoned this year” and linked their names to the President’s eating habits: “gobble and waddle” – gobbling down food and then waddling away. The audience roared with laughter as Kimmel recreated D.o.n.a.l.d T.r.u.m.p appearing beside the turkeys, trying to make them gobble on camera and cracking jokes like “I was going to name them Chuck and Nancy, but then I wouldn’t pardon them.”

Things truly exploded when D.o.n.a.l.d T.r.u.m.p used the occasion for personal attacks. Instead of keeping it light like previous presidents, he called Chicago’s mayor a “low-IQ incompetent” and Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker a “big fat slob.” Kimmel seized the moment, repeatedly imitating T.r.u.m.p’s voice as he tried to hold back a “joke about Pritzker’s weight” only to blurt out calling him a “fat slob” anyway. Jimmy also mocked T.r.u.m.p’s outlandish claims, such as “no murders in Washington D.C. in the past six months” (when there were actually 62) or gas prices soon dropping to $2 a gallon and Thanksgiving meals being 25-33% cheaper. Kimmel urged viewers to post photos of $2 gas pumps with the hashtag #gasolini to prove the President’s words “aren’t always true.”

The most shocking part of the show was the extended skit about Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. After referencing reports that RFK Jr. sent erotic poems to a journalist nearly 40 years younger, Kimmel brought out a wildly exaggerated impersonation of RFK Jr. as a deranged poet laureate. The “poet” recited real quoted lines like “I mean to squeeze your cheeks to force open your mouth. I’ll hold your nose as you look up at me to encourage you to swallow. Don’t spill a drop” and improvised horrific verses such as “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art hot and sticky, and you make my little nuts sweat” or struggling to rhyme “goo cannon” because “Steve Bannon isn’t romantic.”

The sketch escalated when “RFK Jr.” explained a “dirt whistle” – a grotesque act in a graveyard – and screamed that doctors are “liars and cowards” while his crotch smoked from being “chafed from doing sit-ups in jeans.” The entire studio audience was in stitches, applauding nonstop at the bold and unrelenting nature of the bit.

Additionally, Kimmel touched on D.o.n.a.l.d T.r.u.m.p threatening to investigate and even court-martial Senator Mark Kelly and other Democratic lawmakers simply for reminding service members they don’t have to follow illegal orders. He also ridiculed the White House pressuring Paramount to make Rush Hour 4 at T.r.u.m.p’s personal request and arranging the comeback of director Brett Ratner despite sexual harassment scandals.

With a perfect blend of sharp humor, spot-on impressions, and timely political insider details, this monologue has quickly become one of the most talked-about late-night segments of the holiday season. Jimmy Kimmel didn’t just make the audience laugh hysterically – he cleverly exposed the controversial underbelly of the incoming administration right in the midst of Thanksgiving’s traditionally warm and unifying atmosphere. Once again, late-night TV proves its power to both entertain and awaken American public discourse.