Jimmy Kimmel on Monday fact-checked President Donald Trump over his newest election conspiracy.
“Trump’s particularly mad on the Democrats in our state, California, as a result of it will seem that his glorious alternative for mayor of L.A., Spencer Pratt from ‘The Hills,’ is about to be headed for them,” Kimmel stated.
Certainly, Pratt landed in third place within the state’s jungle major. Since solely the highest two finishers will advance to the November runoff election, Pratt is projected to overlook the minimize ― and Trump has cried foul, as he’s carried out in nearly each election that hasn’t gone his means.
However Kimmel stated there’s a cause Pratt fell additional behind because the votes had been counted.
“Most individuals in L.A. vote by mail,” Kimmel defined. “And quite a lot of us waited till the final minute to ship in our ballots as a result of we’re attempting to determine which candidate upset us the least. That meant Spencer Pratt bought out of the gate in second place as a result of they counted all of the in-person votes first. However because the mail-in votes got here in, he dropped to 3rd.”
Trump, nevertheless, claimed that Democrats ― whom he known as “Dumocrats” ― had been attempting to “steal” the election with “very late and large numbers of mail-in ballots.”
Kimmel tore into the logic of the president’s declare.
“All proper, let me get this straight: The ‘Dumocrats’ rigged the election, and so they rigged it by having Republicans take the lead at first?” Kimmel stated. “I imply, for a bunch of ‘Dumocrats,’ they positive are sensible about stealing each election.”
Kimmel stated this was a preview of issues to return because the nation heads to the midterm elections in November.
“You’re gonna be listening to rather a lot about this over the approaching months,” he predicted.
See extra in his Monday evening monologue: