ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! and NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers were the only late night comedy shows to tape original episodes on Monday, and both used the occasion to prove that Friday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani proved that the latter isn’t the scary monster that conservatives have portrayed him as. At the same time, the duo argued the meeting also proves that Trump normally works with people who could be considered “AI-generated human vomits” or “charmless goons.”
Kimmel was up first, and he saw hypocrisy in how some conservatives reacted to the meeting, “After weeks of painting Mamdani as the fourth horseman of the Trumpocalypse, they didn't know what to do with themselves. This is how upside-down this crop of MAGAteers is. They are mad at Trump, some of them furious with him because he was friendly with the new mayor of New York. Last week, he had a big, celebratory dinner for the Saudi prince whose goons dismembered a columnist for The Washington Post. No problem! This: too much.”
Claiming that Trump was smitten by Mamdani, Kimmel contrasted Mamdani with the people in Trump’s everyday orbit, “Mamdani shows up. He's this young, handsome, charismatic guy who came out of nowhere and won big in the most important city in the world. Trump's hometown, no less. He walks in. He smiles. He shakes Trump's hand. Trump looks over in the corner. He sees JD Vance all sweaty and eager. He sees Stephen Miller sucking on his pinkies. He looks around at all these weird, unattractive, AI-generated human vomits in his office. And he's like, ‘Why can't I have this Mamdani around?’”
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. steve malzberg
