(OPINION) Jimmy Kimmel’s attempt to sway Republicans with a 19-minute anti-Trump monologue has backfired with viewers.
The talk show host delivered a special plea to those thinking of voting for the former president, in which he promised to avoid, ‘liberal virtue signaling’.
But the almost 20-minute rant ended up irritating some viewers so much they pledged to vote Trump anyway, just to spite Kimmel.
The comedian used clips from the former president’s speeches, interviews and rallies to try and illustrate several aspects he believes make Trump unfit to lead.
‘Am I biased against Donald Trump? Yes,’ Kimmel admitted. ‘Do I think I have good reasons for being biased against him? Yes.
‘And I’m probably wrong, but I think when you hear some of those reasons, you might agree with me, even just a little bit.’
However, many viewers were left alienated by Kimmel’s sermonizing, with some even suggesting they were now voting Trump to spite him.
‘I was on the fence, but since Hollywood elites like Jimmy Kimmel are supporting Harris, I’ll cast a vote for Trump,’ one person wrote.
‘Kimmel fell off and has gone woke,’ another added.
”Remember when Johnny Carson and Jay Leno were hosts and it was all about class and entertainment? Jimmy is a clown,’ one person wrote.
‘All this MF does is every flipping night! Rip off on Trump. Do you have any other material? Yikes. Switch channels,’ one viewer fumed.
The segment saw Kimmel attack Trump over his ‘concepts of a plan’ for healthcare, his obsession with transgender children and his Chinese-made ‘God Bless the USA’ Bible.
‘Now those Bibles weren’t even made in the USA they were made in China,’ Kimmel joked. ‘That’s how tough he is on China, he forces them to make his Bibles for him.’
He also called out the fact that Trump previously appeared unable to answer what his favorite Bible passage is, as well as his proliferation of rumors that Haitian migrants were eating pets in Ohio.
‘He has no plan to grocery prices, or to make us safer or to protect the border,’ Kimmel summarized
‘The only plans he has is file lawsuits, legal challenges, settle scores and punish his enemies. That’s all he has planned he’s going to pull all the same tricks he pulled last time and more.
‘This is not my opinion, this is happening right out in the open.
‘The one thing that makes this country a democracy more than anything else are free and fair elections of the people by the people and for the people. He wants to turn it of me, for me by me.’
