Jimmy Kimmel: GOP ‘cranked the fake outrage knob up to 11’ over Kamala Harris tweet

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Jimmy Kimmel Ahead of the holiday weekend, Kamala Harris “took some unfriendly fire from some of those who do not enjoy her work”, said Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday, the only host to air following the Memorial Day weekend. Republicans “cranked the fake outrage knob up to 11” after the vice-president tweeted “enjoy the long weekend” with a professional photo of herself. “Of course, the Maga-verse was furious about this,” said Kimmel, such as former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley, who called the vice-president “unprofessional” and “unfit”. “This is the same Nikki Haley who said nothing when Trump said he prefers war heroes who don’t get captured,” Kimmel fumed. “That was OK, no comment there. But tweeting ‘enjoy the long weekend,’ makes you unfit, when the truth is, you know who’s unfit? This guy is,” he said over a photo of Donald Trump on the golf course. Kimmel also touched on outrage over comments by the former national security adviser Michael Flynn at an event organized by followers of the QAnon conspiracy movement. At the “For God & Country Patriot Roundup” conference in Dallas, Flynn was asked why the coup in Myanmar, in which the military overthrew a semi-democratic government and cracked down on dissent following a contested election, couldn’t happen in the United States. Flynn, who suggested in December that Trump could invoke martial law to overturn election results in several swing states, answered: “No reason, I mean, it should happen here.” Since the February coup, the military in Myanmar has imprisoned thousands of protesters and killed hundreds more, Kimmel explained, “and General Eisenhower up there thinks we should do that here, too. Although after it was suggested he be court-martialed for that remark, Flynn tried to walk it back.” “Let me be VERY CLEAR – There is NO reason whatsoever for any coup in America [sic],” he posted on the messaging app Telegram, “and I do not and have not at any time called for any action of that sort.” “Except for this weekend, when you did it on video,” said Kimmel, “and the times you did it leading up to January 6th. Maybe that’s the Bill Gates micro-chip making him say that.” And finally, according to Maggie Haberman at the New York Times, Trump believes he’s going to be reinstated as president in August after Arizona finishes its unhinged, conspiracy theory-laced election audit, “which is so completely insane and dumb, it has to be true”, said Kimmel. “We’ll know for sure once we hear him deny it.”

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