Jimmy Kimmel On Trump Verdict: “No President Has Ever Been Convicted More” – Watch Video

Denise Petski

31 May 2024 at 11:05 am·2-min read

Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time weighing in on the Trump verdict Thursday night, revealing he “had to rewrite his entire monologue” following the announcement.

“It was a big afternoon in New York and for the United States of America. We have a verdict in the case of the People vs. OJ..I mean DJ…Donald John Trump is guilty of 34 felony charges. After seven long weeks the courtoom is empty and Donald Trump’s diaper is full,” Kimmel joked to a cheering audience.

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Kimmel noted it played out “in a strange way”, which led to the last-minute monologue shift. “It was a mess,” he said.

He then enlisted Guillermo to play the foreman and Kimmel played the judge as they re-enacted the announcement of the 34 guilty verdicts.

“Poor Donald Trump, seven weeks of sleep-farting all down the drain,” he remarked. “All for nothing.”

Kimmel cut to a a video of Trump outside the courtroom after the verdicts were announced, where the ex-POTUS said, “The real verdict is going to be November 5 [Election Day], by the people…. We’re going to keep fighting to the very end, and we’ll win.”

I have bad news…,” Kimmel countered. “”The only thing you’re going to be fighting to win is the Jell-O cup on your prison cafeteria tray.”

Kimmel noted the only Trump relative in court for the verdict was “stupid Eric” who posted on X (fka Twitter) that May 30 would go down as the day that his father won the 2024 election.

Kimmel then put up on the screen a social media post by Eric Trump — the only family member on hand for the verdict reading — which read, “May 30, 2024 might be remembered as the day Donald J. Trump won the 2024 election.”

“Or,” Kimmel joked, “it will be remembered as the day a jury in New York spanked your dad even harder than Stormy did with that Forbes magazine.”

Trump was found guilty of all 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a conspiracy to keep a potential sex scandal from derailing his first presidential campaign.

He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 11, just days before the start of the Republican National Convention.

Watch Kimmel’s entire monologue above.

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