Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s new press secretary: ‘attorney in the way George Santos was volleyball champion’

Jimmy Kimmel used his Thursday monologue to mock President Donald Trump's sagging political standing and the shaky start of his new press secretary, Katie Zacharia. Kimmel noted that Fox News, once a favorite of Trump, now projects that Democrats will take the House in the midterms, and that its latest poll puts the president's approval at 36%, the lowest it has recorded. He added that traffic to Truth Social has dropped 30% from a year earlier, joking that he and Trump may be the only people engaged with it, since Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump have gone quiet there, according to The Guardian.

Kimmel also covered Trump's decision to scrap Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the former army major and psychiatrist who killed 13 people and wounded 32 at Fort Hood in 2009. The execution had been scheduled for 3 December. Kimmel suggested Trump backed off on learning Hasan uses a wheelchair, and joked about advertising revenue.

Finally, Kimmel turned to Zacharia, whose credentials as a lawyer are in doubt.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →