Jimmy Kimmel used his Monday-night monologue to sneer at President Donald Trump’s Iran diplomacy, and in the process said more about himself than he probably intended.
The punchline was naturally not intended to be funny. It was that, in Kimmel’s view, the repressive Iranian regime holds moral superiority over the president of the United States.
Kimmel told his audience, “We are on week eight of Trump’s little excursion into the Middle East,” before mocking the president’s announcement that Iran had agreed to terms and that oil was flowing again via the Strait of Hormuz.
He then delighted in the follow-up message from Tehran, telling viewers, “Then on Saturday, Iran contradicted that moment of triumph, saying the strait was not open for business. It was closed for business, and that they had in no way agreed to hand over their uranium or any of this stuff.”
He added, “The statement was
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