Jimmy Kimmel on the midterms: ‘We can’t have an election soon enough’ | Late night TV report

The late night hosts covered disturbing new comments made by Donald Trump as well as his anger at a heckler in Michigan.

Jimmy Kimmel

On Jimmy Kimmel Live! The host said that in the first two weeks of 2026, “everything opened up” and “if this was Jenga, there would be blocks of wood all over the house.”

He spoke about Trump’s threat to invoke the Insurrection Act as a result of his Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers causing chaos in Minneapolis. “He hasn’t been able to do an insurrection in years,” Kimmel joked.

The host said that instead of trying to calm the situation, he is doing the opposite, and that he is “raising the temperature on everything except his wife.”

Trump claimed there were only paid protesters because it was “incomprehensible to him” that people would do something for a reason other than money.

Kimmel also joked that protesting is “an exciting new business sector right now.”

In a new interview with Reuters, Trump commented on skipping the upcoming elections because he clearly realizes that Republicans will likely lose the midterm elections at the end of the year.

“We can’t have an election soon enough,” Kimmel said to applause.

Kimmel said it was “upsetting even for him,” although his press secretary, Carolyn Leavitt, claimed he was joking and was saying it as a joke. Kimmel said that was “a word he couldn’t spell or define.”

Trump also revealed his so-called “Great Health Care Plan” but with few details because Kimmel said “there is no plan.” He said some prices would be reduced by as much as 500%, prompting Kimmel to remind viewers that it is “mathematically impossible to reduce prices by more than 100%.”

“This is what happens when your father buys you your business administration degree,” he added.

Kimmel also talked about Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado awarding Trump the Nobel Peace Prize and how he may now be “sucking it like a pacifier.”

He said giving him an award was “the only way to get him to do anything,” so he made an offer: If Trump drove ICE out of Minneapolis, he would donate one of his awards.

Stephen Colbert

On the Late Show, Stephen Colbert talked about Minnesota being “under siege by masked, armed goons who are victimizing American citizens” and also talked about how Trump threatens the Insurrection Act.

“Okay, this will calm everyone down,” he said.

Colbert said Trump and his ICE officers were “inflaming the population with their fear and violence tactics” and that many of them “have no idea what they are doing.”

One report showed that hiring 10,000 new agents resulted in an error in the application process, meaning many were hired without proper training.

He also expressed shock that the maximum training required was only eight weeks.

Trump also continues to threaten to seize Greenland, prompting NATO to get involved and Germany to send troops to help. Colbert said it was the first time anyone had said, “Good news, German troops are on the way.”

Germany sends only 13 soldiers, which Colbert joked: “It’s because of German efficiency.”

Colbert also spoke about Machado presenting her award to Trump. “This is so sad and senseless because he didn’t deserve it!” He said.

Seth Meyers

On Late Night, Seth Meyers talked about how Trump’s approval rating has been “underwater for months” and showed a montage of the many times he’s been booed in the past year.

This week he was harassed at a Ford plant in Michigan, where one worker described him as a “protector of pedophiles.” The president responded with the middle finger and insults.

Myers said it was strange that this particular repression immediately made Trump think: “Oh, he’s talking to me!”

He also played a video of Trump cursing and said, “Trump curses a lot. It’s like me watching Trump.”

While grocery prices have been rising, Agriculture Secretary Brock Rollins was ridiculed this week for claiming that for $3 an American could put together a meal of a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, a corn tortilla, and “something else.”

Myers said the other would be “one french fry you have to wrestle out of the bathroom” and that it also looks like “a meal the aliens would bring to your cell after they kidnap you.”

Meanwhile, Trump threw a lavish “Great Gatsby” themed party complete with champagne and truffles. Given the book’s brevity, Myers said, “How did none of these people make it to the end?”