Jimmy Kimmel said a single moment from President Donald Trump’s interview this week with ABC’s Terry Moran “might be the most disturbing moment yet.”
“Trump says crazy stuff every day,” Kimmel said. “But most of the time, you know he’s full of it. He’s bragging or he’s lying or whatever, he’s just throwing crap onto his vision board.”
But Kimmel said Trump’s conversation with Moran “went off the rails” when the topic turned to Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador.
Trump insisted that Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang. His evidence: A doctored photo in which someone had added “MS-13” to Abrego Garcia’s knuckle tattoos.
“To everyone else, this looks like it was created in Microsoft Paint on a Tandy 1000,” Kimmel said. “But to Donald Trump, this is irrefutable evidence.”
When Moran pointed out that the image was “Photoshopped,” Trump threw a fit.
“This is why people no longer believe the news,” the president said.
“This couldn’t look worse if Trump had written it in with a Sharpie himself,” Kimmel said. “Our president is falling for Facebook memes. Not even good Facebook memes. He’s like your aunt who texts you a picture of a Minion and asks ‘is this person real?’”
Kimmel said Trump is “not a rational person” and said there are some frightening possibilities here.
“Best case scenario: He needs glasses,” Kimmel said. “Worst case: We are about to be duped out of the presidency by a Nigerian prince.”
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