Over the weekend, Donald Trump Jr. picked a fight with Jimmy Kimmel. On Monday night, Kimmel finished it.
It all started early Saturday when President Trump started tweeting about late-night hosts and their âunfunnyâ material about him. âShould we get Equal Time?â the president wrote.
âWhich is an interesting question, especially since the president tweeted this demand for equal time after watching Fox & Friends breathlessly drool about how great he is for three hours straight,â Kimmel said.
Kimmel took it upon himself to respond to Trump, writing, âExcellent point Mr. President! You should quit that boring job â Iâll let you have my show ALL to yourself #MAGA.â And moments later, Trump Jr.âor âDJTJâ as Kimmel called himâdecided to enter the fray, asking, âThoughts on Harvey Weinstein?â The first son was referring to the lack of jokes from late-night hosts like Kimmel about the sexual-harassment allegations against the Hollywood mogul.
Noting that Weinstein is ânot the presidentâ and ânot particularly well-known outside of L.A. and New York,â Kimmel explained that the âinsinuation was that we, as part of the biased left-wing propaganda machine, wouldnât say anything about him because heâs a Democratânever mind the thousands of jokes about Bill Cosby and Bill Clintonâ that he has told over the years.
Kimmel responded to Trump Jr. by calling Weinsteinâs alleged behavior âdisgustingâ and sharing the 2005 Access Hollywood tape of his âdaddyâ bragging about sexual assault. Trump Jr. went conspicuously silent after that.
âPeople are pointing to the fact that Harvey Weinstein was a Clinton supporter, and listen, itâs true, Iâm not defending Hillary Clinton,â Kimmel said. âFact is her campaign did take money from a high-profile man who has been accused of sexual harassment multiple times.â But, he added, Clinton also took money from another accused sexual harasser: Donald Trump, who famously donated to her Senate campaign.
To Trump Jr., Kimmel said, âNext time youâre defending your father and you think itâs a good idea to draw a comparison between him and a freshly accused sexual predator, donât. It doesnât help.â
And because he promised Trump Jr. a Harvey Weinstein joke, he delivered this one to his audience: âWhatâs the difference between Harvey Weinstein and the Pillsbury Doughboy? When the Pillsbury Doughboy offers you a roll, he doesnât ask you to watch him take a shower for it.â