Emily Zemler
View all posts by Emily Zemler April 8, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live Jimmy Kimmel reflected on what was “another crazy day here in the United States of America,” celebrating the fact that Donald Trump did not destroy an entire civilization as he had promised to do earlier in the day.
“We’re coming to you from Los Angeles for the local time’s just after 5 p.m., which was Trump’s deadline for Iran to ‘Open the f-ing straight or you’ll be living in hell,'” Kimmel said. “He gave a hard cut off time of right now. This morning he wrote, ‘A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.’ … This is the same man that was just bitching about losing the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he’s threatening a civilization with death. He went from Mahatma Gandhi to General Zod like that.”
He noted that the people of Iran spent all day wondering if they were going to die tonight. “Well, good news, they didn’t,” Kimmel said. “It was the Taco Tuesday of all Taco Tuesdays. Our president decided not to drop the chalupa for at least another two weeks.”
He added, “This is how it goes every single time Trump says something insane. He says, ‘I’m going to kill everybody tomorrow at 5 p.m.’ Then we all freak out and then he backs off. He’s like, ‘You know what? Actually, I’ll kill everyone in two weeks.’ Then we relax, and then he forgets he ever said it in the first place. He has the memory and the skin color of a goldfish.”
Kimmel observed that it’s “always two weeks” with Trump. “He’s like a conscientious employee,” the host quipped. “He always gives two weeks notice.”
