Jimmy Kimmel on hurricane conspiracy theories: ‘What a
stupid time to be alive’
On Thursday evening, after Hurricane Milton made
landfall and knocked out power for over 3 million
Floridians, Jimmy Kimmel recapped “the lies that Trump
and his crack team of wingnuts have been spreading”
about recent natural disasters.
The far-right representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
“has been pushing this bonkers idea that Democrats can
somehow control the weather”, Kimmel explained. Greene
and others are targeting Republican voting districts.
“Not only are people believing this, meteorologists are
getting death threats and angry phone calls from
viewers who think they are covering it up,” Kimmel
marveled.
“Donald Trump has pushed us to the point where we can’t
even agree on the weather,” he continued. “What a
stupid time to be alive. Has anyone thought about
unplugging America and then plugging it back in again?
Because we could use a reset.
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“These poor local weather people, haven’t they been
through enough?” he added. “They get up at the crack of
dawn to help us figure out what jacket to wear, we
reward them by sharing screengrabs where they’re
standing next to a pattern that looks like a boner, and
now this. It’s so mind-bogglingly crazy.”
Kimmel then played clips of interviews with Maga rally-
goers where they avowed that the government – as in,
the Biden administration – controlled the hurricanes.
“Donald Trump should be forced to live on an island
with all these people,” said Kimmel. “Listen, dummies,
the government can’t control the weather. The only
person who can control the weather is Beyoncé.”
Kimmel also wondered why Trump was recently campaigning
in California, a state almost certain to go to Kamala
Harris, when the election will come down to a handful
of swing states. He explained his theory through the
old story of King Midas, with Trump as a narcissist
whose narcissism brought too great of success. “Now
that he’s up there alone, he can’t break the spell,
it’s too strong,” said Kimmel. “He can’t admit who he
really is, which is a sad, elderly con man farting on
stage. It would kill him.
“So now he’s sabotaging himself,” he concluded. “He’s
saying immigrants eat dogs, he’ll be a dictator on day
one, he’s selling God Bless the USA Bibles in China.
And he’s campaigning in states he has no hope of
winning – does he believe he can turn those states into
gold? Maybe, but I think it’s more likely that deep
down, he knows the only way to reverse this curse is to
lose the election. So let’s help this poor man do
that.”
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