Last month, comedian Jimmy Kimmel devoted most of the night’s monologue to Ted Cruz’s “despicable” and idiotic defense of Trump’s unfounded electoral challenge. It is an empty crusade that Cruz, despite making the president call his wife ugly and accuse her father of being involved in the assassination of JFK, has done everything possible, presumably with the cynical hope that some day he could become the candidate to represent the MAGA. Republican Party side in 2024.
And Wednesday night, after President Trump incited a treacherous assault on the Capitol, in which his followers effectively held Congress Halls hostage for several hours while security police and the National Guard were nowhere to be found. , Kimmel addressed the illegal insurrection.
“Thank you for joining us at the end of the betrayal of the Donald Trump era. This was one of those days that I always assumed was left behind. This is not what I imagined would happen in this country for my life, ”Kimmel announced.
He continued: “The president of the United States, because he is too angry, too insecure and too incompetent to deal with the fact that he lost an election: a fair election; elections that were no different from any other election; an election he lost was 7 million votes and 70 voters: he turns an angry crowd against members of Congress and his own vice president, not to mention the danger of the Capitol police, these blue lives he claims he care so much about .
Calling him “Benedict Arnold,” Kimmel followed the rally that Trump spoke of earlier in the day, where he stormed the U.S. Capitol, telling his faithful MAGA chiefs, “And after that, we’ll walk there.” , and I will be there with you, we will walk … to the Capitol and cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women … And we will probably not be so excited for some of them, because you will never recover our country with weakness. You have to be strong and you have to be strong. ”(Parts of Trump’s rally later invaded the Capitol.)
“His speech was historic: never before have so many people come together to watch a president masturbate,” Kimmel joked.
He then focused his attention on the others who allowed the assault on the Capitol. “The police were very unknown compared to the Black Lives Matter protests. Some were seen taking selfies with criminals; others seemed to welcome them through the doors. It was a terrible day in the history of this country, “said Kimmel. Our president and the shit who kept this ‘stolen election’ scam, and you’re Josh Hawley, you’re Ted Cruz, lit these fires intentionally or irresponsibly to start a war just to distract us from the fact that Donald Trump lost the election. ”
“Ted Cruz, this guy doesn’t even think the election was stolen,” he added. “He knows better than that. He is very hungry for political power. He is so desperate to be liked and supported by these atrocities that they think Joe Biden is a Chinese agent and Satan is trying to force them to wear masks to the mall so that one day he can be president and is willing to roll the dice in a war. ” .
He concluded: “These people are not American. There is no “us people.” Here is ‘I the people’ “.