Friday, May 29, 2026

Laugh at the news from the last week of May 2026 with Jimmy Kimmel for Flashback Friday

Yesterday, I asked "Jimmy Kimmel, anyone?" Not reading anyone respond "no," that's what I'm doing. I'm working backwards through his monologues this week, beginning with last night's Trump’s Approval Rating Hits New Low, America’s 250th Party is a Mess & Iran War May Be Over Soon?

We are now officially 159 days from the midterm elections, Trump’s approval ratings have sunk to an all-time low even though he has “done more” than any President ever, the DOJ is now going after one of Trump’s victims E. Jean Carroll who accused him of sexually assaulting her, in honor of our country’s 250th anniversary the Treasury Department is looking to print special Trump $250 bills, they’re also lining up entertainment for the “Great American State Fair” and the lineup is shaping up to be a real dud, there will be a mass pardoning ceremony as part of the semi-quincentennial celebration, the US and Iran have reportedly reached another tentative deal to potential[ly] end the war he says we won three months ago, the State Department posted a very upbeat message for Secretary of State Marco Rubio, RFK Jr can’t stop picking up snakes, and another edition of This Week in Florida.
That's a good poll result for participation in this November's midterm elections and a bad one for Donald "Pervert Hoover" Trump, whose approval rating is about what I think he deserved all along. Speaking of approval, I don't think a proposed law to allow his face on a new $250 bill would get past the Senate and given how narrow the Republican margin is in the House, it would be a close call there, especially now that Thomas Massie has lost re-nomination. As for "This Week in Florida," "Florida Man" stories usually involve someone doing something criminal, stupid, and outrageous. Not this week — no criminal activity at all and the Florida Man doing something stupid was the cop. Good thing for the woman he pulled over that his body cam was working!

That's the national news. Jimmy K went local the night before at the end of Jimmy Kimmel Breaks Down Spencer Pratt's Run for LA Mayor & Trump Assembles His Cabinet of Clowns.

Trump met with his cabinet amid his war in Iran being a mess and his approval rating being in the toilet, Hegseth got an angry phone call from Trump after he cancelled the deployment of 4,000 troops who were about to leave to be stationed in Poland, Jimmy had a brief back and forth with RFK Jr. online that caught the attention of Fox Business, Senator John Cornyn of Texas lost his primary to a Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton, he will now face off against Democrat James Talarico, and Spencer Pratt is running for the Mayor of LA.
I've only mentioned Pervert Hoover's narcissism twice, but Jimmy mentioning that one out of every six sentences in his Cabinet meetings is either praise or an attack on his enemies reminds me of one of the criteria for narcissistic personality disorder, need for admiration. He displays that and all the other criteria in abundance!

As for Jillian Michaels and Fox Business calling Kimmel not funny, then why does this video have 2,721,170 views, the one above have 1,936,029 and counting, and the one below 3,086,200? Conservatives hate-watching them? Yeah, right.

The one time I mentioned Ken Paxton here, I looked at his name being floated for Attorney General despite his legal troubles and snarked "Jailbirds of a feather flock together." I'm sure I'll have more to say about the Ken Paxton-James Talerico contest for Senate in Texas between now and November, but I only have until Tuesday to comment on the primary elections for California Governor and Los Angeles Mayor. The former has made Drink, because Tom Steyer is running on National Mojito Day 2019 popular again, although that's probably short-lived; Xavier Becerra is now in first with 23%, quite a jump from 2% a year ago, while Steyer is now in third with 15%, with Steve Hilton second at 20%. The top three in the Los Angeles Mayoral Primary is a lot closer.
The latest UC Berkeley-L.A. Times poll of likely voters has the three candidates at the top almost within the margin of error so anything could happen leading up to Election Day. The top two candidates will move on in the race.

In the poll, Mayor Bass is at 26%. Right behind her is Nithya Raman at 25%. Then Spencer Pratt at 22%.

The margin of error for this poll is 3% so this race is wide open with a clear top three.
After hearing Jimmy describe Pratt's reaction to the fake Mayan Apocalypse of 2012, I hope he comes in third so I won't have to mention him again except in defeat.

This week began with Trump Skips Don Jr’s Wedding, Attacks DUMOCRATS on Memorial Day & Claims His Physical Went PERFECTLY.

The Knicks completed a second consecutive sweep to earn a spot in the NBA Finals, Don Jr and his new bride Bettina were married on Saturday on an island in the Bahamas and Trump did not make it, they have begun construction on the arena for the big UFC fight scheduled for Trump’s 80th birthday next month, we are now on week thirteen of Trump’s “little excursion” in Iran, he posted a message to social media for Memorial Day, he gave himself a glowing report about his health after his physical, RFK Jr. decided to pick up snakes at Dr. Oz’s house, and after months of delays the Trump Mobile phone is finally shipping to customers.
Dumentia — hah! I'm keeping it.

Follow over the jump for top shares of posts about Kimmel on social media during the 15th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.


'The Daily Show,' Colbert, and Kimmel on Trump and Hegseth addressing generals and admirals earned 93 views (second most for the year) and 1 like on Instagram. During October 2025, it earned 89 views (most for the month). It also earned 52 views, 38 viewers/reach, 2 interactions (both reactions), and 3 link clicks (tied for third most for year) on Facebook.


Colbert and Kimmel observe the fifth anniversary of January 6th earned 254 views and 15 likes (most for month and third most for year) on Threads.


Jimmy Kimmel says good-bye to Musk and plays 'TACO Man' for Trump had 67 views for second most during May 2025, 1 like, and 1 repost, tied for second most during year on Twitter/.

I close by recycling the top share from Wayback Wednesday Déjà Vu as Melania and Donald Trump call for Kimmel to be fired.

Colbert and Meyers take closer looks at ABC suspending Kimmel...was also a top share at both Threads and Bluesky....It earned 852 views (most for month and third most for year) and 2 likes (third most) on Threads and 158 likes (most for month and year), 65 reposts (most for month and year), and 3 replies in 2 threads on Bluesky.
That's a wrap for this Flashback Friday retrospective. Stay tuned for a short entry I can share in June tomorrow.

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