Talk about bad timing. Of the five nightly late-night shows, all but one are on vacation this week. Which means Jimmy Kimmel has the Trump verdict all to himself tonight.
So what’s a vacationing Late Nighter to do when the story you’ve been tracking in your nightly monologues for years now reaches its climax and your show is in repeats?
You take to social media, apparently.
Shortly after a jury found Donald Trump guilty on all 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his historic New York hush money trial, The Daily Show posted this message to X/Twitter “Justice Alito has called for upside down American flags to be flown at half mast.”
An hour later, the same account posted this:
How many times was Trump found guilty pic.twitter.com/RuvwsEfgGr
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) May 30, 2024
The Tonight Show, meanwhile, shared a chestnut of its own:
Trump fought the law and the law won. pic.twitter.com/MfAqfD0sY4
— The Tonight Show (@FallonTonight) May 30, 2024
Although Kimmel will almost certainly have plenty more to say in his monologue tonight, he clearly couldn’t resist dunking on his frequent sparring partner on Instagram:
At press time there was no word yet from frequent Trump antagonists Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, or John Oliver. But rest assured, they’re very much on viewer’s minds.
@sethmeyers getting to the studio to record #ACloserLook #TrumpVerdict pic.twitter.com/P7BeYpbyaC
— eamondowney (@eamondowney) May 30, 2024
Hope John Oliver and @LastWeekTonight still has this ready to go…#trump #guilty pic.twitter.com/rPDJmESBNB
— PumpkinSpider (@PumpkinSpider) May 30, 2024
stephen colbert writer's room rn pic.twitter.com/oSNkZOFaz8
— emilio (@emilio__oilime) May 30, 2024
@sethmeyers WHY AREN’T YOU AT WORK?!
— Watch with Raikks (@Raikks2023) May 30, 2024
John Oliver's writers rn. pic.twitter.com/ePELZ4N8VF
— Tamara (@TamIWas) May 30, 2024
