Kimmel on a Reelected Trump: ‘What Can a President Do to a Talk Show Host that Has Been Making Fun of Him?’

KIMMEL: “Trump, he has made it pretty plain that he’s planning to go after his enemies or whatever you want to call them — “
Harris: “Yeah.”
KIMMEL: “ — should he be re-elected. Realistically, like what can a president do to, say, a talk show host that has been making fun of him for like — what can he actually do to, oh, like, for example, me?”
(Laughter)
Harris: “I mean — again, in all seriousness, Jimmy, you’re right to bring this up. He has been very clear. He intends to weaponize the Department of Justice against his political enemies. He admires dictators and says he’ll be a dictator on day one. He talks about being proud of the fact that, as of today, our daughter, for example, has fewer rights in terms of her reproductive freedoms than my mother-in-law. And so, these are very much the issues that are at play about what’s at stake.”
KIMMEL: “When you talk about weaponizing the justice system, of course, whatever he does, he accuses — it’s just classic projection. He’ll say you’re doing it when he’s doing it or he intends to do it. Why — President Biden has weaponized the justice system, why doesn’t he get his son out of the trial? Hunter is currently on trial. Couldn’t he just snap his weaponized fingers and get him right out of that?”
Harris: “To your point, the former president is a hypocrite, and will apply one set of standards to himself and another to others.”
KIMMEL: “He was born a hypocrite. I mean, he puts the ‘hippo’ in hypocrite.
(Applause)
What I find hard to swallow is — I mean, listen, these are not bad people, people who support him. They’re getting misinformation. But how they don’t see through this, like, how they don’t look at this and go like, ‘Wait a minute, that makes no sense?’”
Harris: “I think what — when I travel the country, I’ll tell you what people talk with me about. They talk about the fact that they need affordable health care. A lot of people talk to me about debt and that they need to have relief from things like medical debt. Something we’ve been working on. Do you know that our administration has now made it so that medical debt cannot be included in your credit score?”
(Applause)
KIMMEL: “That’s great. No one should have medical debt.”