{"id":426403,"date":"2025-12-05T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426403\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T12:07:13","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-skewers-donald-trump-for-butchering-world-leaders-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/426403\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Skewers Donald Trump for Butchering World Leader\u2019s Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump for a gaffe he made at a major event with the leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump, speaking at a <a onclick=\"_sendArticleBodyInlineLinkClickAnalytics(&#039;https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-79-cranks-live-and-let-die-before-delivering-peace-event\/&#039;)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-79-cranks-live-and-let-die-before-delivering-peace-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-79-cranks-live-and-let-die-before-delivering-peace-event\/\">press event Thursday<\/a> with DRC President Felix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, severely mispronounced Tshisekedi\u2019s name. In his monologue on Thursday, Kimmel showed a clip of Trump trying to say \u201cTshisekedi\u201d for the first time:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cPerfect,\u201d Kimmel sarcastically replied.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The late-night host added, \u201cCould we hear that again?\u201d And replayed the clip for the audience to laugh at.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cNow, the president\u2019s name is Tshisekedi,\u201d Kimmel said, pronouncing it correctly. \u201cBut don\u2019t interrupt Donald Trump when he\u2019s in the middle of a little stroke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Kimmel showed more of the meeting, in which Trump speculated that after years of war, the two countries would soon be \u201chugging, holding hands, and taking advantage of the United States of America economically like every other country does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump said about the two presidents, \u201cLook at the way they love each other,\u201d as the camera panned over to show President Kagame laughing and smiling, while Tshisekedi appeared unamused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat doesn\u2019t look like love to me,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cThat looks like Melania\u2019s version of love to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jimmy Kimmel Live! Clip showing Presidents Kagame and Tshisekedi.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/PTKH5EFLFBE5JK5WLXCJSZX2Q4.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Jimmy Kimmel Live! Clip showing Presidents Kagame and Tshisekedi. ABC\/C-SPAN <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Daily Show\u2019s Jordan Klepper also mocked Trump\u2019s mispronunciation of Tshisekedi\u2019s name in his monologue. He remarked about Trump, \u201cHe really just went for it, right?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Klepper joked further, \u201cI love how he pauses and lets people say \u2018Oh no&#8230;\u2019 right before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"The Daily Show, Klepper responding to Trump.\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/YB2UHAJQE5EUVJFH6JBCQKEHBY.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"443\"\/>The Daily Show, Klepper responding to Trump. Comedy Central <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Klepper cut Trump some slack, however, by admitting in his next joke that \u201cTshiskedi\u201d can be hard for English speakers to get correct on the first try.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c[Trump] is a dummy,\u201d Klepper said. \u201cEveryone knows that leader\u2019s name is&#8230;\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He too stumbled over the name, before snapping at his audience, \u201cF&#8212; you guys, I\u2019m not president, OK? Give me a break.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump for a gaffe he made at a major event with the leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":426404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[77,171,11171,15467,399,173,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-426403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-j-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","11":"tag-late-night","12":"tag-television","13":"tag-tv","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115666882149789158","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}