In the days leading up to Joe Biden’s first personal late-night interview about his presidency on Jimmy Kimmel Live !, Fox News said the appearance proved that he did not take the country’s countless problems seriously. But what those who complain forgot to remember is how serious Jimmy Kimmel can be when he wants to.
After joking in his monologue that “as a precautionary measure” they had captured and removed everyone named “Brandon” from the audience, Kimmel shared a comprehensive montage showing that Donald Trump was asking “difficult questions from really tough journalists” at Fox and send his “thoughts and prayers” to spend them in this “difficult time.”
When Biden finally joined Kimmel at the desk, the host reiterated Fox News fears he might not ask his guest “serious questions.”
“They’re really asking serious questions,” Biden said sarcastically, before telling Kimmel he was happy to have a real conversation with someone “really smart.”
Kimmel began by discussing an issue close to his heart, the prevention of gun violence, frankly asking, “Why haven’t we done anything about it?”
The president accused the “intimidation of the NRA” and the “MAGA party”, which took control of the GOP, before heading to praise Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell for making sense of what he was saying, despite their many differences. on matters.
“Like when he said we couldn’t confirm a Supreme Court judge for a year or so, and then he said the opposite?” Kimmel asked.
Biden had no exact answer to this, but while he said we needed another ban on assault, he would not “imitate Trump” by issuing any executive orders that potentially violate the Constitution. “They also ask me, ‘Look, Republicans don’t play straight, why do you play straight?'” He added. “Well, guess what, if we do the same thing they do, our democracy will literally be in jeopardy, and that’s no joke.”
“They also ask me, ‘Look, Republicans aren’t playing straight, why are you playing straight?’
When Kimmel suggested that the Democrats “play Monopoly with someone who will not cross the Go and will not follow any of the rules,” Biden said we should “send them to prison.”
From there, they moved to other areas that failed to move significantly in a progressive direction, although Democrats controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress – at least until the interim terms.
When Kimmel called Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema “at best,” Biden warned against blaming Democrats – the vast majority of whom are united – for problems that 100 percent of Republicans have no interest in solving.
As Biden continued to explain all the popular measures that a divided Congress would never allow to be passed, Kimmel became increasingly frustrated. “Maybe Americans just aren’t as knowledgeable as they should be,” the host complained. “Or maybe there’s a Death Star pumping false information into our brains.”
Biden rightly assumed he was talking to Fox News again.
“Enough already!” Kimmel continued. “And I think you need to start yelling at people!” And when Biden said he had never been “so optimistic” in his life, he said, “Why are you so optimistic? There’s no point!”
The president responded with an irrationally encouraging response to the power of “young people” in America today and something meaningless about “two-racial couples” in television commercials that Kimmel cracked before throwing himself into his own commercial break.
By the end of the 23-minute interview, Kimmel wondered how bad things had become for the country in the two years since Biden took office – many of which can be traced back to his predecessor. “What a terrible job you have,” he said with a dark laugh. “I’m glad you’re doing it. But, boy, oh boy, does that look like a bad gig? ”
“We should have done something about gun violence a long time ago, the climate – we could all look back on those days and say, ‘Oh my God, why not?'” Kimmel said before Biden paused to say we had achieved that. “Some progress”.
“Some, some!” said the host in reply, stating that he thought it was clearly not enough.
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