Jimmy Kimmel ‘Can’t Help’ but Enjoy the ‘Confederacy of Dunces Running This Country’ After Signal Chat Fiasco | Video
Jimmy Kimmel was, like a lot of people, interested in the news this week that Trump administration officials openly discussed apparently classified military plans in a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal — a chat that included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
But because of the details about how such a huge screw-up happened, Kimmel confessed during his monologue on Tuesday that he was actually enjoying it.
“Quick question for the audience – did anyone else get a group chat invite from the National Security Adviser today? Just me?” Kimmel joked. “I know we shouldn’t enjoy the fact that we have a confederacy of dunces running this country. But I’ll be honest. I can’t help it. I’m enjoying it right now.”
“This week, in the race between dumb and evil, dumb’s in the lead! Dumb has a big lead!” Kimmel said with glee.
The ABC host then caught his audience up on the details about the ongoing scandal — specifically how Goldberg was invited to the Signal chat by Trump National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, how the chat included Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and more. Who spent days talking about plans to bomb Yemen, and also talking smack about American allies — while unaware Goldberg could see it all.
“And just to add another ‘also’ to the mix, one of the people on the chain – was in Russia at the time of the texts,” Kimmel explained. “Not that they would ever try to look at those, but, so you would think, one would think that the administration would say, ‘hey, oops, we screwed up,’ and hold the people accountable. Oh, that’s where you would be very wrong.”
Kimmel noted how the Trump administration’s response has been to deny the facts, downplay the risks associated with the breach, and also smear Goldberg. This enabled Kimmel to talk about how nearly everyone who participated in the chat previously criticized Hillary Clinton over her use of a private email server when she was Secretary of State.
“In any other world, these people would be fired or worse for something like this. Instead, they keep saying, ‘oh this information wasn’t even classified,’ as if they wanted people to know about it,” Kimmel added. He then ran clips demonstrating this.
Eventually Kimmel mentioned how Trump himself has weighed in — and downplayed the matter considerably.
“What happened to this guy? He used to fire people on a daily basis. He fired Meat Loaf for less than this,” Kimmel joked. “Firing used to be his favorite thing. It’s kind of sad. He’s like an old dog who doesn’t chase the ball anymore.”
You can watch the whole monologue below:
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