Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart both tore into Donald Trump this week after the president made an unprompted remark about Nicki Minaj’s a** at a Michigan rally. The late-night hosts used the moment to question how such comments keep happening with only days left before the midterms.
Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart react to Donald Trump’s comment on Nicki Minaj
Trump sparked the uproar while stumping in Port Huron, Michigan, alongside Minaj, who has become one of his loudest celebrity supporters. Mid-speech, he told the crowd, “By the way, I looked at one hell of a beautiful a** before — Nicki Minaj. That’s hard to miss.” He then caught himself and added, “I hope Nicki wasn’t insulted, but we love Nicki.”
Jimmy Kimmel opened his monologue by declaring, “Horny Donald is my least favorite Donald of all of them.” The ABC host then imagined the fallout if Joe Biden had said the same thing, asking how Fox News would spin it and joking that a host would “have to eat the Bible on camera.” Kimmel also floated the idea that Minaj could serve as White House press secretary, arguing that Trump always finds a way to make any situation stranger.
Jon Stewart took the same material to The Daily Show on Monday, framing it around the issues voters actually care about: the economy, the cost of living and the war in Iran. After rolling video of Trump’s remarks, Stewart stared at the camera and asked, “How the f**k is this real?” He then mocked the president’s expression while Minaj spoke, describing him as completely fixated on her.
The rally landed one week before the midterms, with government corruption polling as the top concern for Americans. Trump has spent the final stretch relitigating a war he claimed to have ended on day one eight months ago, while Barack Obama campaigned in Detroit for Abdul El-Sayed. Against that backdrop, the Minaj moment dominated headlines instead, proof, as Kimmel put it, that Trump “will find a way to make them weirder and worse.”
