Jimmy Kimmel Gets Choked Up Over “Terrible” Night Trump Won: “It Was A Bad Night For Everyone Who Voted For Him Too, They Just Don’t Know It Yet”

Jimmy Kimmel was moved to tears during his opening speech Wednesday (Nov. 6) nighttime aft Donald Trump erstwhile again clinched nan presidency.

Kimmel kicked disconnected nan broadcast connected a lighthearted, and almost encouraging note, pinch a skit that showed him packing up his agency to time off nan country. “You heard him, he has a database of enemies, you deliberation I’m not connected that list?” he asked his sidekick, Guillermo Rodriguez.

But nan speech took an affectional move erstwhile Kimmel became choked up arsenic he mourned what a “terrible night” it was for democracy.

“Let’s beryllium honorable it was unspeakable nighttime past night. It was a unspeakable nighttime for women, for children, for hundreds of thousands of immigrants who make this state go,” he said arsenic tears began to good successful his eyes.

“For wellness care, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for free speech,” he continued done his tears. “It was a unspeakable nighttime for mediocre people, for nan mediate class, for seniors who trust connected societal security, for our friends successful Ukraine, for NATO.”

He concluded his connection pinch a connection to Trump’s supporters, arsenic well, noting, “It was a unspeakable nighttime for everyone who voted against him. And conjecture what? It was a bad nighttime for everyone who voted for him, too. They conscionable don’t recognize it yet.”

But Kimmel wasn’t nan only personification who reportedly had a bad night. “It was an absolute disaster of a nighttime for Melania,” he joked.

Despite nan results of nan election, nan precocious nighttime big added that this doesn’t mean we “storm nan capitol because we don’t for illustration nan result.”

“I’ve been trying to travel up pinch thing positive. The champion I tin travel up pinch is we’ve been done this erstwhile earlier and yes, this clip it’ll astir apt beryllium worse, possibly a batch worse, but I besides deliberation that possibly we will look backmost and recognize successful nan agelong tally this is what we needed to aftermath america up,” he told viewers.

But he reached a alternatively blunt conclusion regarding really he feels astir Trump’s re-election: “Maybe nan bully portion successful each of this is he can’t tally again successful 2028.”

Jimmy Kimmel Live airs connected weeknights astatine 11:35/10:35c connected ABC.