On the May 27, 2025 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jimmy Kimmel mocked Donald Trump’s all-caps Memorial Day post, joking that the president had celebrated the holiday’s “first two letters.” The segment also took aim at Trump’s West Point commencement address and his appearance at a dinner for cryptocurrency buyers.
What Kimmel said about Trump’s Memorial Day post
Trump’s post wished people a happy Memorial Day, then included an attack on “the scum” he accused of trying to destroy the country over the previous four years. The Guardian reported that the message was written in all caps.
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Kimmel’s joke was that Trump had “celebrated the first two letters of Memorial Day this weekend.” He followed it with the observation: “Any subject, he connects it to the previous administration.” The humor turned on the contrast between a holiday honoring the nation’s war dead and a political attack directed at Trump’s opponents.
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Trump’s West Point address
Kimmel also mocked Trump’s commencement speech at West Point, including its reference to drone warfare. The Guardian reported that he compared the address to taking a graduating class to visit “grandpa in the home.”
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The cryptocurrency-buyer dinner
The segment also criticized Trump’s brief appearance at a dinner for large cryptocurrency buyers. According to the Guardian’s account, Kimmel said Trump “danced out of the room and all the way to the bank.”
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ABC lists the video as a Jimmy Kimmel Live! segment dated May 27, 2025, with a runtime of 12:37. Its official listing says the segment streams on Hulu: ABC’s segment listing.
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The ABC page provides a short description, not a full transcript. The quoted lines and account of Trump’s post above are reported in The Guardian’s May 28 coverage: The Guardian’s report. The full segment is the best source for the jokes in their original context.
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