If four years of Donald Trump as U.S. president taught the global population anything, it’s that the former reality star loves to spout a contrarian opinion. This flair for the antithetical was on full display on Wednesday night, according to Jimmy Kimmel, when Trump “addressed the horrific terrorist attack on Israel by attacking Israel.”
While appearing at a rally in West Palm Beach, Trump gave what Kimmel described as “a doozy of a speech” in which he unloaded a litany of anti-Israel opinions to a crowd of his ride-or-die supporters. Among the many abominable comments he dropped, according to Kimmel: “Hamas would never have gone into Israel if his election hadn’t been rigged; he called Israel’s defense minister a jerk; he did some ax-grinding about Netanyahu; and had some complimentary words about Israel’s enemies in Lebanon.”
“He’s really angling for that Nobel Piece of Shit Prize,” Kimmel observed.
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Trump’s very public comments forced Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi to offer a comment on Trump’s attacks—and one sick burn: “We don’t have to bother with him and the nonsense he spouts.”
Kimmel countered: “Unfortunately, we do have to bother with it,” he said, before sharing a clip of Trump praising Hezbollah as being “very smart”—then noting that he would likely catch hell for saying such a thing. Rather than back the comment up or try to give it further context, he doubled down on the unpopular opinions by reminding the crowd of the time he called Chinese President Xi Jinping “very smart,” too.
“Poor Eric,” said Kimmel. “Trump never said he was smart.”
