ABC’s Los Angeles-based Jimmy Kimmel got his first chance to respond to the riots in his city and President Trump’s response to them on his Tuesday show. Kimmel insisted that there is nothing to see and any violence is the “mentally ill” Trump’s fault because he “wants there to be a war” and desires to create “protest porn” for Fox News.
Kimmel sarcastically began, “I just want to say thank god for President Trump and the heroes at ICE for protecting us from these bloodthirsty fruit stand vendors spreading their dangerous pineapple chunks and mangos with a squirt of lime all over the city. We are so grateful for what you have done.”
Turning serious, Kimmel denounced the idea that immigration law might be enforced, “I'm very angry, I have to say. I cannot believe what's going on. I knew it was going to be bad. I did not know it was going to be this bad. People who have lived here their whole lives, people who have been in this city longer than I have, the vast majority of whom have never done anything wrong, are being abducted, which is the correct word to use, by agents in masks, hiding their identities, grabbing people off the street and at work. Sending people to detention centers.”
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