Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel appeared to hold back tears Wednesday as he addressed President-elect Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
Kimmel opened the segment with a skit showing him packing up his office. Co-host Guillermo Rodriguez entered and asked if Kimmel was preparing for a vacation.
“No, I’m not going on vacation, I’m leaving the country,” Kimmel said.
“Why are you leaving the country?” Rodriguez asked.
“I can’t stay for another four years of this,” Kimmel replied. “Who knows what he’s going to do?”
Kimmel added that he believes he is on Trump’s supposed “list of enemies.”
After cutting to a live studio shot, Kimmel told viewers Election Day was the “worst Taco Tuesday of my whole life.”
“Those of you who are hate-watching this show right now wanting to watch me suffer, you will be happy to know there was no joy in my life last night,” Kimmel said. “I was all over the place.”
He then walked viewers through the events following the election, including Vice President Kamala Harris’s phone call to Trump to concede the election.
“She conceded and then explained what concede means,” Kimmel said of Harris. “Trump’s like, ‘that means you’re stuck up, right?’”
“Let’s be honest, it was a terrible night last night,” Kimmel added. He then paused as his voice wavered, and the audience responded with applause.
“It was a bad night for everyone who voted against him, and it was a bad night for everyone who voted for him too—you just don’t realize it yet,” Kimmel warned. “It was a really good night for Putin and for polio and for lovable billionaires like Elon Musk and the bros up in Silicon Valley.”
He then made an appeal for Trump to let him “share a prison cell” with singer Taylor Swift “when the great talk show host roundup begins.”
The late-night host made headlines in January after engaging in an argument with New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers.
Rodgers had suggested, without proof, that Kimmel’s name would appear on documents naming nearly 200 associates of sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
“Dear ***shole: For the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any ‘list’ other than the clearly phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality,” Kimmel wrote.
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