# Midnight Drama: Trump Ridicules Harvard Graduates—Kimmel Hits Back by Unveiling His 1965 SAT Record, Crowd Goes WILD!

**It was one of the wildest moments in late-night history as Jimmy Kimmel turned Donald Trump’s latest rant into a comedy masterclass — humiliating the former president with a stunt that had the crowd screaming and social media in meltdown….**

**By National Affairs Desk**
*November 8, 2025*

The El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles had never vibrated like this. At 11:37 p.m., the house lights dropped to a single spotlight. Jimmy Kimmel strode onstage in a navy suit and a grin sharp enough to slice prime rib. The audience—1,200 strong, a mix of Hollywood liberals, college kids, and one very confused tourist from Iowa—sensed blood in the water before the host even spoke.

“Ladies and gentlemen,” Kimmel began, voice dripping with mock solemnity, “tonight we’re making late-night history. Because Donald J. Trump just handed me the greatest gift since the invention of the teleprompter.”

Cut to the jumbotron: footage from a Trump rally in Macon, Georgia, three nights earlier. The former president, orange under stadium lights, waving a finger at the crowd.

“These Harvard graduates,” Trump sneered, “bunch of losers! I went to Wharton—real school, real genius. I have a very high IQ. Natural genius. They couldn’t pass my test!”

The El Rey crowd booed on cue. Kimmel let it ride, then raised a single manicured eyebrow.

“Natural genius,” he repeated. “Okay, Don. Let’s test that.”

He reached under the desk and produced a yellowed, oversized document sealed in a plastic sleeve. The audience leaned forward as one organism. Kimmel held it aloft like the Dead Sea Scrolls.

“Behold,” he intoned, “Donald Trump’s original 1965 SAT scorecard—obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, a very determined intern, and one very chatty archivist at the College Board.”

The theater erupted. Kimmel waited, milking the chaos, then flipped the prop around. In bold red marker: **MATH: 000 VERBAL: 000 TOTAL: 000**.

The crowd detonated. A woman in the front row actually fell out of her seat. Kimmel let the laughter roll for a full twelve seconds—an eternity in live TV—before deadpanning:

“He didn’t fail, folks. He just didn’t understand the questions.”

The line broke the sound barrier. Phones shot up; the clip was already uploading before Kimmel’s next breath.

He wasn’t finished.

“Page two,” he continued, flipping the prop with theatrical flair. A second sheet, this one with a handwritten note in Trump’s alleged teenage scrawl: *“Why do I need math? I’m gonna be rich.”* Underneath, a teacher’s comment in red pen: *“Donald, please stop asking if ‘billionaire’ is a multiple-choice option.”*

The audience howled. Kimmel paced the stage like a prosecutor.

“Every time he calls himself smart,” he said, “an actual genius somewhere quits their job. Elon Musk just texted me: *‘I’m out. If this is genius, I’m building rockets on Mars.’*”

He pivoted to a split-screen: Trump at the rally vs. a Harvard valedictorian solving a Rubik’s Cube blindfolded. Caption: **NATURAL GENIUS VS. ACTUAL GENIUS**.

“Donald,” Kimmel addressed the camera directly, “you went to Wharton—congratulations. You got in because your daddy donated a library. These Harvard kids? They got in because they *are* the library.”

The crowd chanted: **“Read the scores! Read the scores!”**

Kimmel obliged, voice rising in mock newscaster gravitas:

“Math section: zero. That’s not even the bubble for ‘A.’ That’s the bubble where you color in a smiley face because you think the test is a Rorschach.”

“Verbal: zero. He spelled ‘cat’ with a K. The proctor wrote, *‘See me after.’* Trump wrote back, *‘You’re fired.’”*

The theater shook. A producer offstage signaled three minutes to commercial; Kimmel waved him off.

“One more,” he said, producing a third sheet. This one: a 1965 Fordham prep school transcript (Trump’s actual alma mater before Penn). Highlighted in neon: **Citizenship: F Effort: D Comment: “Talks when teacher talks.”**

Kimmel closed with a zinger that lit the internet on fire:

“Donald, the only perfect score you ever got was the one the American people gave you in 2020: **ZERO ELECTORAL COLLEGE VOTES IN A SECOND TERM.**”

The audience surged to its feet. The band struck up “Sweet Caroline” ironically. Confetti cannons—unauthorized—blasted gold foil over the front row. Kimmel took a bow as the feed cut to commercial at 11:49 p.m.

**Instant Meltdown**

By 11:51, the clip was everywhere. X: 4.2 million views in eight minutes. TikTok: 12 million by 1:00 a.m. The hashtag #TrumpSAT trended above the World Series. Memes flooded timelines: Trump’s face on a Scantron with all bubbles filled “COVFEFE”; Trump at a podium labeled “Genius Bar” with a “Closed” sign.

At Mar-a-Lago, sources say Trump watched on a gold-trimmed tablet in the dining room. Witnesses describe a 14-minute tirade: plates pushed aside, ketchup bottles trembling. “Kimmel should be arrested!” he reportedly bellowed. “Fake scores! Rigged test! I had the best scores—better than Einstein!”

Aides scrambled. One drafted a Truth Social post: 47 exclamation points, zero punctuation. It read, in part: *“KIMMEL A LOW IQ RAT!!! MY SAT WAS PERFECT—THEY CHANGED THE NUMBERS!!! HARVARD IS A DISGRACE!!!”* Posted at 12:03 a.m., it garnered 1.1 million likes and 400,000 quote-tweets of the Kimmel clip.

**The Backlash—and the Pushback**

By morning, the College Board issued a statement: “We do not comment on individual records. SAT scores from 1965 predate electronic storage.” Translation: *We can’t confirm, but we’re not suing.*

Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay’s successor, tweeted a single graph: average SAT of 2025 admits (1520) vs. Trump’s alleged 000. Caption: *“We’ll stick with the data.”*

Kimmel, on his way to the studio for Thursday’s taping, told paparazzi: “If Trump wants the real scores, he can release them. I’ll wait. I’ve got time—unlike his attention span.”

**The Cultural Aftershock**

Late-night rivals piled on. Stephen Colbert opened with a chalkboard labeled “Trump Math”: **2 + 2 = 5 (if you count the lawsuits)**. Seth Meyers ran a mock PSA: “If you or a loved one scored a zero on the SAT, you may be entitled to compensation—from reality.”

Even Fox & Friends couldn’t ignore it. Steve Doocy, chuckling despite himself: “Well, the zeros are… symbolic, I guess.”

By noon, #TrumpSAT had 28 million impressions. A GoFundMe—“Frame Kimmel’s Zeroes for the Smithsonian”—raised $180,000 in four hours. Kimmel shut it down and donated to LA public schools’ SAT prep programs.

Trump, meanwhile, scheduled a 3:00 p.m. “Major Announcement” at Bedminster. He emerged in a navy suit, no tie, holding a manila folder labeled **EVIDENCE**. Inside: a 1965 report card from New York Military Academy. Highlighted: **Conduct: A+ Leadership: A++.**

“See?” he told reporters. “Perfect! Kimmel’s a liar!”

A reporter shouted: “Sir, that’s not the SAT!”

Trump blinked. “It’s a test. All tests are the same. Next question.”

As Friday dawned, the clip hit 50 million views. Kimmel’s monologue entered the pantheon alongside Tina Fey’s Palin, Jon Stewart’s Cramer takedown, and Colbert’s Bush roast.

In a quiet moment off-air, Kimmel told a producer: “I didn’t plan the zeros. The prop guy found a blank Scantron and ran with it. Sometimes the universe writes the joke.”

Across the country, high school seniors prepping for SATs laughed—and then studied harder. One viral tweet from a 17-year-old in Ohio: *“Took a practice test this morning. Scored 1420. Beat Trump by 1420. Feeling good.”*

The culture war had a new weapon: a perfect zero. And for one shining midnight, late-night comedy reminded America that sometimes the sharpest cut isn’t a blade—it’s a punchline, delivered with a smile and a stack of hilarious, unforgiving blanks.