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Jimmy Kimmel is calling out the White House for suggesting Donald Trump be cast as the next James Bond.
The White House shared a poster of Trump dressed as agent 007 after Amazon announced that the search to find Bond was officially underway.
“Grab him by the octopussy! We got a new James Bond in town,” Kimmel joked.
Jimmy Kimmel is shaken, not stirred, by the White House recently posting an image of Donald Trump dressed as James Bond.
On Saturday, the White House’s official X account reacted to Amazon’s announcement that the search to find the next 007 is underway by posting an image of the president dressed as Bond, James Bond. The black-and-white visual, which appears to draw inspiration from a poster for 2021’s No Time to Die, sees Trump dressed in a tuxedo and holding a pistol equipped with a silencer.
Kimmel, naturally, had some thoughts on the White House’s fan-casting on Monday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live.
“The White House jumped on the crazy train and posted this, suggesting that Trump would be the next James Bond,” he remarked as the image was displayed on screen. “Grab him by the octopussy! We got a new James Bond in town.”
Daniel Craig as James Bond in ‘No Time to Die’
Credit: Nicola Dove/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios
“I think 007 is his approval rating right now,” Kimmel quipped.
This isn’t the first time that the White House has edited Trump into popular film and television franchises.
Earlier this month, the White House posted an image of Trump dressed as the Mandalorian with little baby Grogu in honor of Star Wars Day. The image, just like the Star Wars imagery the White House has shared before it, drew swift backlash on social media. “This has caused a major disturbance in the force today. Yikes,” one user wrote in response.
In addition to the Bond graphic, Kimmel also reacted to the president posting “a whole bunch of slop” on social media over the weekend, including an AI-generated image of himself walking alongside a really buff alien.
“He posted an image of himself walking with a handcuffed extraterrestrial. Why? We don’t know,” the host said. “All we know for sure is that the alien appears to be doing CrossFit. He’s in very good shape.”
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Others, including Utah senator Mike Lee, were also confused by Trump’s captionless alien “photo.”
“Not sure what this means but I’m here for it,” Lee wrote on X.
“I’ll tell you what it means, Mike. It means the guy with the nuclear codes is out of his goddamn mind,” Kimmel replied. “That’s what it means. But I’m glad you’re there for it.”
Kimmel also addressed an image Trump posted that included a text box that claimed the 79-year-old looked like he was aging in reverse.
“Uh, you’re not aging in reverse,” he deadpanned. “Wearing diapers does not mean you’re aging in reverse, okay?”
“Imagine being a very unpopular president in the middle of a very unpopular war,” Kimmel later said. “The cost of everything is skyrocketing. Gas is very expensive. And you are spending your time posting online about how hot you are, how you captured an alien, and how you should be the next James Bond.”
Watch Kimmel discuss the wave of strange new Trump images in the clip above.
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