Jimmy Kimmel Turns White House’s Nasty Brain Insult Against Trump — Then Plays One Clip That Makes It Backfire

Jimmy Kimmel is continuing to provoke the Donald Trump administration.

With each monologue, the late-night host seems to agitate the president and his staffers to the point that they lash out at him in the press.

No matter the response, the comedian ribs them with unforgiving punchlines.

Jimmy Kimmel mocked Donald Trump’s self-anointed leadership of the Kennedy Center, linking plummeting ticket sales to his “everything he touches dies” curse. (Photos: "Jimmy Kimmel Live"/YouTube, Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Jimmy Kimmel mocked Donald Trump’s self-anointed leadership after a White House aide called him a “peanut brain.” (Photos: “Jimmy Kimmel Live”/YouTube, SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

On Nov. 9, the Emmy Award winner served up another brutal display to hit back at low-brow comments intended to dissuade viewers from tuning in.

Kimmel heckled Trump for mispronouncing genome during a keynote speech at Cape Canaveral during a recent pisode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

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He then targeted the White House’s response to his post-election jokes, saying, “The White House got back to the important business of attacking me.”

He was responding to White House spokesman Davis Ingle, who took issue with the heckling in a statement shared with Newsweek.

“Jimmy Kimmel’s case of Trump Derangement Syndrome is so advanced that it has completely rotted his peanut-sized brain. He’s far more entertaining when you’re laughing at him than with him, but unfortunately his real talent is his failing ratings. This statement took more braincells to write than the average Jimmy Kimmel joke.”

“Sick burn, bro. You know what, you should enter a rap battle spittin’ dope rhymes like that,” replied Kimmel on stage Nov. 9.

The audience erupted with laughter and applause when he said, “Trump now has interns insulting me. It’s like that sad day when your cat gets too fat to chase mice.”

Kimmel wasn’t done roasting Ingle. He called it “impossible” to operate a human body with a peanut-sized brain. The he played the actual clip of Trump mispronouncing “genome” to drive home his point.

“He has a brain like a pu-nut,” Kimmel joked. That was five minutes into the monologue, which continued for another 10 minutes with even more jabs at Trump and his Cabinet.

On Facebook, a Trump supporter quipped, “How hard did Jimmy cry this time?”

The comment was met with the following response, “All you MAGAluke dips–ts still crying over the Midterms? Can’t admit that Jimmy Kimmel is your intellectual superior?”

An X user trolled Ingles in the comments of an unrelated post. The individual tweeted, “Have to say, I watch @jimmykimmel every night, and to see him DECLOWN YOU @davis_ingle is funny as hell.”

They also mentioned, “We’re waiting for your next write up Blue Boy. Jimmy Kimmel OWNS YOU, AND OWNS THAT NARCISSISTIC ORANGE CLOWN you work for! Have a nice day doofus.”

During the Nov. 4 taping, Kimmel suggested Trump “resign. Quit already.”

“Just quit. Nobody wants you. Even you don’t want to be president anymore,” he continued.

Kimmel has been eviscerating the politician, his enablers, and supporters since Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

Last September, Trump publicly demanded that ABC indefinitely remove him from the airwaves. The network temporarily suspended him over his comments about Trump loyalist Charlie Kirk.

The Republican has consistently referred to the jester as a “loser” for the sharp digs at the presidency, failed Nobel Peace Prize campaigns, his physical decline, marriage to Melania Trump, and more.

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