Donald Trump was in a celebratory, vindictive mood on the day after the Senate acquitted him of impeachment charges, as “the only person who would celebrate almost being thrown out of the White House”, said Jimmy Kimmel.
Earlier on Thursday, Trump attended the National Prayer Breakfast to offer what Kimmel called his “Pettysburg Address” – a rambling, boastful speech shouting out Republican allies and punching at imagined enemies.
Top of his hit list was Mitt Romney, the only Republican to vote to convict him in the trial. “This tells you all you need to know about the president’s party: within hours of Romney’s vote, Trump tweeted a fully produced video attacking him, like presidents do,” said Kimmel.
Trump also brought up Hunter Biden, to make, according to Kimmel, “what might be his most ridiculous statement yet” – jabs at the Bidens for nepotism and corruption, using his children as counter-examples.
Kimmel found the comparison laughable – “The idea that Donald Trump would criticize anyone for any kind of nepotism … he put his son-in-law in charge of peace in the Middle East! His kids are the poster children of political privilege.”
