Late-night show hosts Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon reacted to President Trump’s return to the White House on Monday, describing the president’s inauguration as a “long national nightmare.”
“Going to the news. Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and like Martin Luther King, I had a dream. I mean, it had to be a dream, right?” Meyers said at the beginning of his NBC show, “Late Night.” “It’s too weird to be real,” he added.
After joking about other headlines, Meyers said, “So that’s it, right? We’re done with the news and now we can move on? Oh s—, right, Donald Trump is now the president of the United States. Oh , yes, yes… me!”
Meyers also weighed in on Trump’s speech, describing it as a “disturbing low-energy mix of sinister fascism and weird s—t that no one but Donald Trump and his cronies care about.”
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Late night host Seth Meyers reacts to President Trump’s return to the White House. (Screenshot/LateNightSethMeyers)
Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. Late night hosts, who mostly expressed support for former President Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris did not hold back in mocking the ceremony and the new president.
On CBS’ “The Late Show,” Colbert said, “Well, ladies and gentlemen. It’s happened. Donald Trump is president again.”
“So how, how, where do we start? Let’s get going, first of all. Do you have any sense of today? How did we get here?” Colbert added.
Fallon was met with boos on NBC’s “Tonight Show” after declaring, “People, today Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th president of the United States.”
“We’re all united. That’s great to know,” he said, responding to the crowd’s reaction.
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President Trump delivers his second presidential inaugural address on January 20, 2024.
Kimmel told the story on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” about the start of the day, which included his son’s bedwetting and the dog pooping in the hallway, which he said was just an “appetizer” ahead of the inauguration.
“Today at noon Eastern, our long national nightmare was officially sworn in. For the second time. For the second time. Donald Trump became the first convicted felon to be sworn in as President of the United States,” Kimmel said, a frequent critic of the president.
Kimmel said during interview in October that he was not “mentally prepared” for Vice President Kamala Harris’ potential election loss to former President Trump.
“I told my wife, I don’t feel like I’m mentally ready for the possibility of losing. I’m not ready. I have to get to where I’m ready for both scenarios,” Kimmel said, telling MSNBC host Joe Scarborough, who asked if he was looking forward to a time when Trump is not talked about every day.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at Donald Trump’s return to the White House on Monday. (Screenshot/Kimmel)
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“You’re going to have to get up the next morning and talk about what happened or what didn’t happen and what message you want to send to the people watching the show,” Kimmel continued. “Most of my shows are not important. This one seems a little more important than the others because a lot of people ask me what I think and agree with what I think, and that’s a big responsibility,” he added.
