Jimmy Kimmel fires back at Trump: ‘Quiet, Piggy!’ after new attack on his show

Los Angeles, CA – Jimmy Kimmel opened Thursday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! with a ten-minute, laugh-filled evisceration of President Donald Trump after the commander-in-chief posted a furious all-caps demand at 12:49 a.m. Thursday — exactly eleven minutes after Kimmel’s Wednesday show ended — screaming that ABC should “get the bum off the air IMMEDIATELY!”

Kimmel walked onstage to a standing ovation and immediately addressed the elephant in the Oval Office.

“A special hello to those of you who are watching from the White House,” he began, staring straight into the camera with a grin. “And you know who you are… because you’re still up.”

He held up a giant screenshot of Trump’s Truth Social post, timestamp glowing in red: 12:49 a.m. EST.

“He watches us live,” Kimmel gloated. “Live! Not on YouTube the next morning. Not clipped on Fox & Friends. Live. Hi, Mr. President! How are you? Thanks for watching us on actual television instead of that bootleg stream you use for Newsmax. We appreciate the ratings boost.”

The audience roared as Kimmel continued: “I’lltell you something — it’s viewers like you who keep us on the air. Ironically.”

He then rattled off the timeline of Trump’s late-night obsession with him.

“Let’s see… this is the seventh time in the second term alone he’s tried to get me fired. Seventh! There was January after the inauguration cold open, March after the State of the Union bit, May after the Melania ‘Be Best’ joke, twice in July, September over the Charlie Kirk thing, and now this. Every five weeks he flips out and wants me gone. I mean, talk about a snowflake. If you got this many unhinged threats from a neighbor, you’d have no problem getting a restraining order. The judge would be like, ‘Yeah, sounds like the guy’s nuts. Here’s your paperwork.’”

Kimmel noted that Trump’s latest meltdown came after Wednesday’s monologue in which he mocked the president’s reversal on the Epstein files, the “piggy” incident with the Bloomberg reporter, and the ongoing construction of the gold-plated East Wing ballroom.

“He stayed up past midnight — past his bedtime — just to rage-post about me,” Kimmel said. “That’s commitment. That’s love. Also, that’s obsession.”

Then he made the offer.

“Mr. President, I admire your tenacity. You never give up. So here’s a deal. If you’re watching tonight — which I presume you are, because it’s 11:35 p.m. on the East Coast right now and you’re definitely not asleep — how about this: I’ll go when you go. Okay? Deal? We’ll ride off into the sunset together like Butch Cassidy and the Suntan Kid. You can be the Suntan Kid. I’ll be Paul Newman — classy, handsome, and still employed.”

The studio erupted.

Kimmel paused for the applause, then leaned in with the kill shot.

“And until that glorious day,” he said, pointing directly into the camera, “if I may borrow a phrase from you… Quiet, piggy.”

The line — a direct callback to Trump’s widely condemned remark last week when he pointed in a female Bloomberg reporter’s face and snarled “Quiet, piggy” — brought the house down.

TOP STORIES

• Psychologists hint karoline Leavitt could lose it entirely if she continues working for Trump
• ‘Something’s Fishy’: Jimmy Kimmel Drops Eye-Opening Revelation About Trump’s Real Plan for Epstein Files
• Karoline Leavitt Brought to Tears After Savage Impression Mocks Her Defense of Trump’s Lies

The White House had defended the comment as “playful banter,” with Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt saying the president “often uses colorful language with the press corps.”

Trump has not responded publicly to Thursday’s monologue, but White House aides told reporters Friday that the president was “in a great mood” and “didn’t watch any late-night television last night — he was busy winning.”