Late-night TV show hosts slammed President Donald Trump as tensions flare between the U.S. and Iran following a military attack that resulted in the death of the Middle Eastern country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
"Jimmy Kimmel Live!" host and frequent Trump critic Jimmy Kimmel slammed the president on Monday night for his seeming about-face on going to war, playing several archive clips of Trump promising to be a "peacemaker" during his political tenure.
"Trump is suddenly all about toppling regimes," Kimmel said on the March 2 show. "Which is interesting because I remember a time when the idea that a president would start a war because he couldn't make a deal was seen by some as a negative."
The host then played a 2011 interview clip, in which Trump warned that then-President Barack Obama would enter war with Iran because he "has absolutely no ability to negotiate."
"But hey, when your best friend was a pedophile, and you're losing bigly in the swing states with an election coming up, what do you do?" Kimmel added, throwing in a reference to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. "I'll tell you what you do: you fire the weapons of mass distraction."
