President Trump is talking about deploying the U.S. military to Minnesota to back up ICE. And the Nobel Peace Prize-poaching POTUS does like a shiny trophy.
With that it mind, Jimmy Kimmel on Thursday night offered a trade that should make everyone happy.
Trump on Thursday morning said via Truth Social that if “the corrupt politicians of Minnesota don’t obey the law and stop the professional agitators and insurrectionists from attacking the Patriots of ICE, who are only trying to do their job, I will institute the INSURRECTION ACT… and quickly put an end to the travesty that is taking place in that once great State.”
The Insurrection Act, signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807, provides a loophole to get past the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act which limits the military from being involved in civilian law enforcement. “Whenever there is an insurrection in any State against its government, the President may… call into Federal service… the armed forces, as he considers necessary to suppress the insurrection.”
Or as Kimmel put it: “The Insurrection Act would allow President Trump to send troops into Minneapolis to stop the civil unrest that started when President Trump sent ICE Into Minneapolis. To start the civil unrest.”
Kimmel, though, has a shiny object (or five) that just might convince Trump into leaving Minneapolis alone.
On the heels of Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado gifting her Nobel Peace Prize to Trump on Thursday, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host rolled out a selection of awards he has won over the years, for the president to claim as his own–provided that he recalls ICE and forgets about the Insurrection Act.
“Giving him an award seems like the only way to get him to do anything. And with that said, Mr. President, I have an offer I think you’ll find difficult to refuse,” Kimmel said as an array of trophies and statuettes was rolled on-stage. “If you agree to pull ICE out of Minneapolis and put them back at the borders where they belong, I am prepared to offer you one of the following trophies that I have been honored with over the years.”
Among the shimmery selections was a Daytime Emmy Kimmel won for best game show host; a Clio “for my work selling crap to people”; a Webby, “the most prestigious award the internet can give”; a Writers Guild Award; “or, best of all, my 2015 Soul Train Award for White Person of the Year.
“The choice is yours,” Kimmel reiterated to Trump, ostensibly watching at home. “I am willing to personally deliver any or even all of these to the Oval Office in exchange for leaving the people of Minneapolis alone.”
Watch Kimmel’s complete pitch to the president at the top of this post.
He really would take one of those awards and claim that he earned it.
Lame!!!