Jimmy Kimmel roasted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for sharing a rather impassioned speech about President Donald Trump after he was confirmed as secretary of health and human services.
Kimmel pointed out that the only Republican in the Senate who voted against Trump’s controversial pick is Mitch McConnell, who battled polio as a child; Kennedy has incorrectly suggested the polio vaccine has lead to cancer and has questioned its efficacy.
“Thanks to RFK Jr., polio might get another run at him,” Kimmel quipped on last night’s show.
And when he was being sworn in at the White House, Kennedy made sure to lay the flattery on thick for President Trump, or “suck up” to him, as Kimmel put it.
The late night host shared clips from Kennedy’s speech, where he proudly declared, “God sent me President Trump.”
“That’s some triple-A ass kissing,” Kimmel interjected. “What’s next? Trump is your hero on a white horse?”
Kennedy continued ranting, “We need a man on a white horse. We need somebody who is going to come in and has the spine, and the guts, and the strength, to challenge orthodoxies, to stand in the way of vested interest and break institutions that have turned against our democracy.”
Kimmel joked that Kennedy’s little speech was surely going to excite the president.
“That’s the way to get him going,” he said. “Melania couldn’t turn him on like that the first day they met.”
He then wished Kennedy and Trump a “happy Valentine’s Day.”
Kimmel recently called Mark Zuckerberg out for similarly “kissing Trump’s ass” by announcing Meta will be getting rid of fact checkers on Facebook and replacing them with community notes, just as Musk did on X.
“We call it the ol’ suck and Zuck,” Kimmel joked.
The late night host called Zuckerberg’s announcement “embarrassing” and said he couldn’t “decide which part is worse.”
“Mark Zuckerberg just flushing whatever dignity he had down Trump’s golden toilet, or the fact that he’s transitioning into one of the Golden Girls,” he added.
Jimmy Kimmel Live! airs on weeknights at 11:35/10:35c on ABC.