Jelly Roll took a number of jabs at President Donald Trump throughout his opening monologue as visitor host of Jimmy Kimmel Reside on Monday (Aug. 24), turning his fill-in stint right into a pointed political set.
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The nation star, who’s guest-hosting the ABC late-night present for 4 nights whereas Jimmy Kimmel is away, opened by noting it was the primary time he’d “worn a swimsuit and a tie ever.” “I didn’t put on one to the Grammys. I didn’t put on one to court docket. I didn’t put on one to my father’s funeral,” he stated. “However I look alright, don’t I?”
He then turned to the weekend’s IndyCar race in Washington, D.C., hosted by Trump, joking that the president “drove across the observe in his motorcade doing what they name the ‘lap of honor,’” which he likened to “a loyalty program at a strip membership.”
Referencing a Washington Submit report on the president’s latest weight achieve, Jelly Roll famous that he has dropped round 300 kilos himself lately — “meaning I’ve misplaced a whole Donald Trump,” he stated, earlier than tacking on a jab on the president’s approval numbers. He additionally mocked Trump’s look at a Washington, D.C. IndyCar race over the weekend, and ran a montage of the president mocking different individuals’s appearances after wryly insisting the viewers shouldn’t stoop to weight jokes.
The section constructed to a bit wherein Jelly Roll cautioned the viewers to not mock the president over his weight “as a result of we all know that he would by no means try this to different individuals” — a setup for a montage of clips of Trump doing precisely that.
“Properly Mr. President, from one fats pig to a different, take it from me that bodily health is essential,” Jelly Roll concluded.
Again for his second consecutive summer time filling in for Jimmy Kimmel, Jelly Roll is internet hosting for 4 nights, with visitors together with podcast host Jay Shetty and actor Glen Powell — who revealed that Jelly Roll has a small position in his upcoming movie The Comeback King — and Stevie Nicks booked as a musical visitor later within the run.
The monologue arrives at a profession excessive level for the nation star, born Jason DeFord, who has change into probably the most profitable crossover artists in nation music. Earlier this 12 months, he gained the Grammy for Finest Modern Nation Album for Superbly Damaged, the 2024 launch that grew to become his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Its single “I Am Not Okay” reached No. 14 on the Scorching 100 and have become certainly one of six profession No. 1s on the Nation Airplay chart, alongside “Son of a Sinner,” “Want a Favor,” “Save Me” (with Lainey Wilson) and “Midway to Hell.”
