{"id":2374361,"date":"2026-04-15T13:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2374361"},"modified":"2026-04-15T13:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T13:32:50","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-lays-into-trump-pardoning-1600-deserving-patriots-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jimmy-kimmel-lays-into-trump-pardoning-1600-deserving-patriots-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Lays Into Trump Pardoning \u20181,600 Deserving Patriots\u2019 | Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/jimmy-kimmel\/\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> once again took aim at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> during his monologue on the April 14 episode of\u00a0<em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/jimmy-kimmel-live\/\">Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/a><\/em> The late-night host referenced a recent report from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/personal-finance\/taxes\/on-trumps-list-of-promises-mass-pardons-for-staffers-1ccd10fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> that said Trump has plans to \u201cpardon everyone in his orbit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel joked, \u201cHe has promised to pardon anyone who comes within 200 feet of the Oval Office. Basically, everyone but <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/melania-trump\/\">Melania [Trump]<\/a> will get a pardon when he goes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that it\u2019s \u201cunclear\u201d whether Trump\u2019s pardoning plans are a joke or \u201cone of those things where it starts out as a joke, but then actually happens. Like him being President of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During Trump\u2019s first term in office from 2016 to 2020, he granted 144 pardons, Kimmel shared. \u201cSo far, not even halfway into this one, he\u2019s already pardoned 1,600 deserving patriots,\u201d he added. \u201cMaybe he <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/personal-finance\/taxes\/on-trumps-list-of-promises-mass-pardons-for-staffers-1ccd10fa\">really is Jesus,<\/a> you know? I mean, 1,600? That must be every pedophile he knows.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump Should Be the New Ayatollah, No One Believes His Jesus Pic Lie &amp; MAGA Reacts to Pope Attacks\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ueI5kQhccPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The reference to Jesus was due to Trump\u2019s recent posting of a now-deleted AI-generated image of himself as Jesus Christ. After deleting the image on Truth Social, Trump said he thought the photo was meant to portray him as a doctor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/j-d-vance\/\">JD Vance<\/a> wasn\u2019t able to go along with his doctor storyline. He came up with an entirely different explanation,\u201d Kimmel pointed out, along with a clip of the vice president explaining, \u201cI think the president was posting a joke, and of course, he took it down because he recognized that a lot of people weren\u2019t understanding his humor in that case. He was posting a joke, you understand? And like all the best jokes, it had to be explained and then deleted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel also joked about why Trump should be chosen as the next Ayatollah in Iran. \u201cThe problem is we killed the Ayatollah, or Israel killed he Ayatollah, but Iran replaced him with and even Ayatollier Ayatollah, and Trump doesn\u2019t like the new leader they picked and <em>we<\/em> don\u2019t like the leader we picked. So maybe, we can kill two birds with one stone and make Donald Trump the new Ayatollah,\u201d Kimmel began. \u201cWe let him go run Iran and then we lock him out when he tries to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to explain why the move would \u201cmake a lot of sense,\u201d adding, \u201cIran has palaces made of gold for him to bulldoze and make golder. You have a lot of the same views when it comes to free speech, women\u2019s rights. It\u2019s a slam dunk. All he really needs is a beard and this war is done! I, for one, cannot think of a better way for Turmp to deliver on his promise to make Iran a living hell than to become their leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/strong><\/em><strong>, Weeknights, 11:35\/10:35c, ABC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>More Headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yakimaherald.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel once again took aim at Donald Trump during his monologue on the April 14 episode of\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel Live! The late-night host referenced a recent report from The Wall Street Journal that said Trump has plans to \u201cpardon everyone in his orbit.\u201d Kimmel joked, \u201cHe has promised to pardon anyone who comes within 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2023055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[21741],"class_list":["post-2374361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/The-Pitt-wins-Emmy-Award-for-best-drama-series.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374362,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374361\/revisions\/2374362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}