Jimmy Kimmel on Monday said President Donald Trump spent months pressuring Republicans to block a discharge petition that would force the release of files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
“Which is exactly what someone who’s totally innocent and has nothing to hide would do,” Kimmel said.
With the discharge petition now expected to easily pass in the House, the president shifted tactics, claiming he supports the release of the files related to Epstein, who was once his friend.
The issue has even driven a wedge between Trump and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), who was once one of his biggest supporters. Trump pulled his endorsement of Greene and attacked her on Truth Social as “Wacky Marjorie ‘Traitor’ Brown (Remember, Green turns to Brown when there is ROT involved!)”
The late night host said, “He’s so upset he couldn’t even come up with a decent nickname for her.”
Kimmel also spotted something even more unusual: Music at the White House being played so loud it could be heard around the area.
“Nothing to see there,” Kimmel said. “Just the president alone in the White House blasting ‘Phantom of the Opera’ at full volume while rage tweeting about how everybody’s out to get him.”
The White House has a new speaker system that Trump can control from an iPad, and reportedly took full advantage of it on Friday. In addition to “Phantom of the Opera,” he also played other tunes ― including an Elton John classic.
“The music he’s playing is ‘Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me,’” Kimmel pointed out. “But don’t read anything into that.”
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Kimmel wasn’t done. He said the bizarre soundtrack blasting through the White House was only the warm-up for what witnesses claimed happened next.
According to staffers, Trump spent the rest of the evening wandering from room to room “conducting” the music with a gold Sharpie while aides quietly debated whether to cut the power or just pretend nothing was happening. One anonymous source told Kimmel, “We figured as long as he wasn’t ordering missiles or firing Cabinet members by tweet, we’d let Andrew Lloyd Webber keep him occupied.”
Then came what Kimmel described as “the real show”: Trump opening Truth Social and launching into a late-night tirade accusing the “deep state,” the media, two former contestants from The Apprentice, and an unnamed “ghost that lives in the Lincoln Bedroom” of conspiring against him.
Kimmel joked that Trump’s posts were so frantic, “it looked like someone duct-taped a phone to a raccoon and shoved it into a vending machine.”
But the monologue took a sharper turn as Kimmel addressed the political fallout surrounding the Epstein files.
“This is the first time we’ve seen MAGA-world publicly eat itself in years,” he said. “Marjorie Taylor Greene versus Donald Trump — it’s like watching two fire alarms argue about who’s louder.”
He added that Greene firing back at Trump only fueled the spectacle, creating what he called “the world’s worst reality-show crossover — Real Housewives of the Capitol meets The Apprentice: Paranoia Edition.”
Kimmel concluded by imagining the president, still pacing around the Executive Residence, turning up the speakers even higher as drama unfolded on Capitol Hill.
“If tomorrow we hear ‘Memory’ from Cats echoing through the National Mall,” he said, “we’ll know he’s truly lost it.”
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