Jimmy Kimmel voiced his help for the U.S. ladies’s hockey staff after they declined President Donald Trump’s reluctant invitation to his State of the Union tackle.
The comic weighed in on the athletes’ snub throughout Monday night time’s monologue for “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!,” the place he ripped into Trump for his odd telephone name with the U.S. males’s hockey staff following their gold medal win on the Olympics.
“So Trump dials in after the sport, Kash (Patel) has received him on his telephone to glom onto the glory,” Kimmel mentioned, “and invite the boys’s staff and begrudgingly the gold medal profitable ladies’s staff, who additionally received in extra time, to his State of the Union tomorrow.”
After enjoying a snippet of the telephone name, wherein Trump mentioned he needed to invite the feminine athletes or danger being “impeached,” Kimmel blasted the president as a “creep,” however made certain to additionally shout out the ladies’s staff for his or her response to the drama.
“The ladies’s hockey staff, by the best way, instantly refused the invitation,” he continued. “I imply, are you able to blame them? The final time Trump invited a girl with a medal to the White Home, he made her give it to him.”
Kimmel, after all, was referring to Venezuelan opposition chief Maria Corina Machado, who gifted Trump her Nobel Peace Prize after the arrest of Nicolás Maduro.
Although, as Kimmel highlighted, the ladies’s staff took the excessive highway, noting in a press release: “We’re sincerely grateful for the invitation prolonged to our gold medal profitable U.S. ladies’s hockey staff and deeply respect the popularity of their extraordinary achievement. As a result of timing and beforehand scheduled educational {and professional} commitments following the video games, the athletes are unable to take part. They have been honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgement.”
But, as Kimmel famous, that was seemingly “a pleasant means of claiming, ‘Puck off, Trump. We’ve received higher issues to do.’”
Watch Kimmel’s full monologue above.
“Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.
