Jimmy Kimmel is officially more popular than Donald Trump. Or, at least, he is according to a new YouGov poll.
“I am more popular than the president of the United States,” Kimmel announced proudly during the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. “You remember the guy who keeps saying I have no ratings? Well, that makes two of us. They polled more than 1,000 people and I lead Trump by 16 points. I’m at plus three, he’s at minus 13.”
He responded to the news with some skepticism. “It’s nice, but considering the fact that I’m not a convicted felon, friend of Jeffrey Epstein and I’ve never paid off a porn star, or sent a team of mass goons into a park to pull an old lady away from her grandchildren, I feel like my rating should be higher maybe than Trump,” Kimmel said. “At this point, finding a toenail in your salad has a seven-point lead over Donald Trump.”
Kimmel quipped that he hoped Trump didn’t see the poll results because “you know I don’t like to upset him.” “But I think he might be upset, because the White House put out a statement this afternoon,” Kimmel noted before reading a statement from White House press spokesperson Anna Kelly. It claimed that Kimmel “prays every night to garner a fraction” of Trump’s support. It concluded with “Sad!”
“I like ‘Sad’ with an exclamation point,” Kimmel replied. “It would make a nice T-shirt with Trump’s face on it, wouldn’t it? You know what else is sad? That the President of the United States has a lower approval rating than Diddy and diarrhea. That’s what’s sad.”
He added, “If he’s looking to improve his approval numbers, I have an idea: release the Epstein files… Trump’s treating these Epstein files like a grumpy old neighbor on Halloween. He turns off all the lights and just hopes the trick-or-treaters will assume there’s nobody home.”
The YouGov poll pitting Trump against Kimmel was conducted in the aftermath of ABC temporarily pulling Jimmy Kimmel Live from the air. ABC and its parent company Disney abruptly suspended the long-running late-night series, citing an “ill-timed and thus insensitive” monologue in which the comedian criticized right-wingers for trying to “score political points” off the murder of Charlie Kirk.
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Kimmel has scored record ratings since the show’s return. His first episode back brought in 6.2 million views, four times his usual audience, according to data from Nielsen. Meanwhile, Kimmel’s comeback monologue on YouTube reached 21 million views and counting, making it his most-watched monologue of all time on the platform.
The survey, published by the Economist and YouGov, asked 1,656 adults in the U.S. whether they viewed Kimmel and Trump favorably. Kimmel had a net favorability of +3 while Trump landed at -13.
From Rolling Stone US
