It was the late-night massacre everyone is still talking about. Jimmy Kimmel, armed with his signature smirk and zero mercy, invited Arizona Senator (and actual American hero) Mark Kelly to the couch, and together they turned the entire monologue into a 16-minute surgical strike on Donald Trump that left the studio audience in tears of laughter and the former President reportedly screaming at a 75-inch television in Palm Beach.
From the opening second, Kimmel went straight for the jugular. He replayed Trump’s cozy White House dinner with Mohammed bin Salman – you know, the guy U.S. intelligence says green-lit the brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi – and delivered the line of the night: “Things happen… like when a journalist gets sawed into pieces with a bone saw. Things happen!” The crowd erupted so loud the control room thought the fire alarm went off. Senator Kelly, cool as ever in his astronaut-turned-senator vibe, piled on: “This is the same guy who two months ago said we have to stop political violence… he couldn’t even make it to Thanksgiving without flip-flopping.”
The hits kept coming faster than Trump changes policy on a Tuesday. Kimmel roasted the SNAP benefits threat (“The man who never missed a Happy Meal in his life is now deciding who gets to eat”), the Epstein birthday letter drama, the Prince Andrew sympathy tour, and even Trump’s Medal of Honor gaffe. Every clip was perfectly timed, every punchline landed like a tomahawk missile. Kelly, usually the calm one, couldn’t resist: “The words of a coward from a man who dodged Vietnam with fake bone spurs.” The audience gave him a standing ovation that lasted a full 28 seconds – yes, someone counted.
Cut to Mar-a-Lago, where multiple insiders (the kind who’ve seen everything and fear nothing anymore) say Trump was watching live on his bedroom TV. What followed was described as “the most unhinged meltdown since the 2020 election night.” Plates flew. A Diet Coke can reportedly dented a wall. Sources say he paced in circles screaming “That washed-up clown Kimmel is finished!” and “Sue ABC! Sue Disney! Sue the senator!” for over an hour. At one point he allegedly demanded the network be “pulled off the air immediately” while aides frantically tried to change the channel to Newsmax. One staffer finally yanked the plug – yes, literally unplugged the television – to stop the spiral.
By morning, the full segment was already rocketing past 22 million views across platforms, trending #1 worldwide on YouTube, TikTok, and X. Twitter is calling it “the single greatest Trump takedown in late-night history,” with side-by-side clips of Kimmel’s jokes and Trump’s red-faced rage racking up another 50 million impressions. Even Stephen Colbert tweeted a single fire emoji and the words “I tip my mug.”
Late-night insiders say Trump’s team spent the entire morning in crisis mode, trying to figure out how to respond to something that was, let’s be honest, fact-checked in real time by a comedian and a combat pilot-turned-senator. One ABC executive reportedly told staff, “We haven’t seen numbers like this since the 2016 election.” Translation: Jimmy Kimmel just delivered the most watched, most shared, most devastating 16 minutes of television in 2025 – and we’re only a few weeks into the year.
The clip is still pinned at the top of Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s YouTube channel, the comments are disabled (for obvious reasons), and the internet has already crowned it legendary status. Political commentators, meme lords, and even some Fox News hosts privately admit: they’ve never seen Trump get roasted this cleanly, this brutally, this hilariously on live television.
So grab the popcorn, hit that share button, and watch the full segment below – because moments like this don’t just make television history… they make Donald Trump throw remotes in 4K. Jimmy Kimmel and Mark Kelly didn’t just burn the house down last night. They turned Mar-a-Lago into a five-alarm meltdown, and America can’t stop watching the flames.
