Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday shredded President Donald Trump’s “outrageous” suggestion that Democratic veterans in Congress be executed for sharing a video urging U.S. military service members to refuse unlawful orders.
Kimmel, who noted that Trump also accused the Democrats of “seditious behavior,” tossed to a clip of the president’s “buddy” on Fox News, Brian Kilmeade, doing “everything he could” to get him to walk back his suggestion.
“In the old days, if you said a thing like that, that was punishable by death,” Trump said on Kilmeade’s radio show on Friday.
“Yeah, but you’re not saying, you’re not threatening them,” Kilmeade observed. “A lot of people were interpreting this as a threat and there’s security.”
“Well, I’m not threatening them, but I think they’re in serious trouble, I would say they’re in serious trouble,” Trump said. “I’m not threatening death, but I think they’re in serious trouble. In the old days, it was death!”
“In the old — what old days are the — the Salem witch trials?” Kimmel asked. “What days is — we did not put Congress people to death in the old days!”
Kimmel also noted that the Pentagon is investigating one of the Democrats — Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) — and threatening to court-martial him over the video.
“Mark Kelly was a captain in the Navy; he flew 39 combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait,” said Kimmel as he began to list the senator’s résumé. “He’s a former astronaut, which, if Trump starts going after our astronauts, who’s next? Lauren Sánchez [Bezos]? Katy Perry? Where does it end?!”
See more of Kimmel’s Tuesday monologue below.