Jimmy Kimmel on Wednesday made it crystal clear what he thinks about Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman’s call to reopen casinos and other businesses amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Goodman revealed in an earlier interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that she offered her city as a “control group” to study the effectiveness of social distancing measures in slowing the spread of the virus that has now killed more than 47,000 people nationwide. The offer was rejected, she later said.
Kimmel, who grew up in Las Vegas, slammed what he called the mayor’s “bonkers” interview on Twitter. He called for Goodman to resign and described her statements as “dangerously misguided.”
Kimmel addressed the mayor’s comments again on his late night show, saying Goodman had “revealed her lunacy to Anderson Cooper and the whole country today.”
“If you watch that back, you can see the moment where Anderson’s soul leaves his body,” Kimmel said.
“Somehow, she was elected last year with more than 80% percent of the vote in Las Vegas and I can see why,” Kimmel continued. “Mayor Goodman has a lot of thoughts and the one thing those thoughts have in common is that none of them make sense.”
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