Trump’s ‘Deeply Stupid’ Plane Crash Presser Floored Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmel joked that he’s finally figured out why President Donald Trump responds so poorly to major tragedies.

“I think maybe he gets jealous when a disaster gets more coverage than him,” Kimmel said in his Thursday monologue. “He’s like, ‘I’m the biggest disaster. You point that camera at me right now.’”

Kimmel was covering Trump’s press conference Thursday morning where, in response to a tragic collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter in Washington, D.C., Trump blamed his political opponents and DEI policies.

“You almost have to hand it to him,” Kimmel said. “The sheer number of ways he finds to be a dirtbag, it’s kind of miraculous. You think you’ve seen them all.”

The late-night host, who recently roasted Trump for his callous, factually inaccurate response to the wildfire crisis in Los Angeles, joked that Trump’s response to the latest tragedy was at least a step in the right direction.

“Remember when he waited 10 minutes after the wildfire started here in L.A. before he started blaming DEI?” Kimmel said. “Well, I guess he learned from that lesson because this time he slept on it, and then started pointing that little orange nut."

Kimmel showed a clip of Trump saying he knew DEI was to blame for the crash because, “I have common sense.”

“Take it from a man who looked directly into an eclipse, you need common sense,” Kimmel quipped.

“Seriously though, are the people who voted for him good with this?” Kimmel asked.

He added, “All [Trump] had to do is go out there and say, ‘This is a tragedy,’ offer some comfort to the families, to the military families, promise to get to the bottom of it. But he can’t do that, because he’s callous, he’s racist, he’s sexist, and most of all, he’s stupid. He’s a deeply stupid man.”

Kimmel concluded, “To blame this on DEI, it’s like blaming 9/11 on hummus. It makes no sense.”