Jimmy Kimmel addressed a viral video of President Joe Biden freezing on the June 18 broadcast of Jimmy Kimmel Stay! throughout his opening monologue. The video circulating on social media claims Biden froze onstage as he was exiting the star-studded Hollywood fundraiser that came about on June 15. On the occasion, Kimmel interviewed Biden and former President Barack Obama.
Throughout his opening monologue, the late night time host wrote off the viral video as inaccurately portraying the occasions of the night time.
“You realize there’s a clip of Joe Biden going round at the moment,” Kimmel stated. “They are saying he froze and that he needed to be escorted off stage on Saturday night time.”
This isn’t the primary occasion that social media has taken to fixating on out-0f-context clips of the president. Kimmel affirmed this sentiment by confirming that he was proper subsequent to Biden throughout the time frame featured within the viral clip. He additionally contested the video, saying that Biden didn’t freeze in any respect.
“I used to be standing proper subsequent to him when it occurred,” he continued. “He didn’t freeze. He was listening to the individuals calling him within the entrance row.”
To additional show his level, and to proceed along with his ongoing beef with former President Donald Trump, Kimmel supplied his personal clip to indicate audiences. “The correct wing media, whereas working very laborious to say Biden’s out of it, one way or the other appears to utterly miss moments like this,” he opened.
Kimmel then performed a section of Trump boasting about having “aced” a “cognitive take a look at” whereas crediting the White Home physician by the flawed identify, calling him Ronny Johnson as an alternative of Ronny Jackson. “If that was one other cognitive take a look at, you failed it, okay?” stated Kimmel. Watch the late night time host’s full monologue within the video above.
Additionally in attendance at Saturday’s Democratic fundraiser had been stars together with George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Barbra Streisand.
Jimmy Kimmel Stay!, Weeknights, 11:35/10:35c, ABC
