Late-night hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon responded to President Trump's return to the White House on Monday, calling the president's swearing-in a “long-running national nightmare.”
“I'll check the news. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and like Martin Luther King, I had a dream too. I mean, it had to be a dream, right?” Myers said at the beginning of his NBC show “Late Night.” “It's too strange to be true,” he added.
After joking about other headlines, Myers said: “So, that's it, right? We're done with the news and we can move on now? Oh, right, Donald Trump is now president of the United States. Oh.” , Yes, correct.
Myers also expressed his opinion on Trump's rhetoric, calling it “a disturbing, low-energy mix of ominous fascism and weird stuff — that no one cares about except Donald Trump and his followers.”
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Late night host Seth Meyers reacts to President Trump's return to the White House. (Screenshot/LateNightSethMeyers)
Trump was sworn in as the forty-seventh president of the United States on Monday. Late night hosts, who mostly… He expressed his support for Former President Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris did not hesitate to mock the ceremony and the new president.
On CBS's “The Late Show,” Colbert said, “Well, ladies and gentlemen, it's happened. Donald Trump is president again.”
“So, how, how, where do we start? We'll go first. Do you understand what happened today? How did we get here?” Colbert added.
Fallon on NBC's “Tonight Show” was met with boos after announcing, “Guys, today, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th President of the United States.”
“We are all united. That's great to know,” he said in response to the crowd's reaction.
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President Trump delivers his second presidential inauguration address on January 20, 2024.
Kimmel told the story on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” On ABC! About the start of his day, which included his son urinating his bed and his dog defecating in the hallway, which he said was just an “appetizer” before the inauguration.
“Today at noon Eastern, our longstanding national nightmare was officially sworn in. Again. Again. Donald Trump became the first convicted felon to be sworn in as President of the United States,” Kimmel said. A frequent critic of the president.
Kimmel said during In an interview in October, he said he was not “mentally prepared” for the possibility of Vice President Kamala Harris losing the election to former President Trump.
“I was telling my wife that I don't feel mentally prepared for the possibility of losing,” Kimmel said. “I'm not ready. I have to get there where I'm ready for either scenario.” to MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who asked if he looked forward to a time when they wouldn't talk about Trump every day.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Donald Trump's return to the White House on Monday. (Screenshot/Kimmel)
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“You're going to have to wake up the next morning to talk about what happened or didn't happen and what message you want to send to the people watching the show,” Kimmel continued. “Most of my shows aren't important. This one seems to be more important than the others because I have a lot of people asking my opinion and agreeing with what I think, and that's a big responsibility.” He added.
