Donald Trump can handle dictators. He can handle lawsuits, indictments, even government shutdowns.
What he cannot handle â and never has â is being mocked by people who donât scare easily.

In 2024 and 2025, two of those people â Jimmy Kimmel and Whoopi Goldberg â didnât just roast him. They exposed him. On live TV. To millions. And heâs still raging about it.
It starts with a familiar picture: Trump sitting for yet another carefully staged TV interview, this time on 60 Minutes. One year after suing the show for âunfair editing,â heâs right back in the chair for another edited interview, playing the same broken record.
No matter what Norah OâDonnell asks â inflation, tariffs, immigration, war â the answer is always the same:
âMe good, Biden bad.â
âWe have no inflation,â he insists. âBiden had inflation. Biden let the border open. Biden ruined the country. Bidenâs war. Bidenâs fault.â
The reality, of course, says otherwise. But Trumpâs not speaking to reality. Heâs speaking to his reflection.
And while heâs doing that, The View and Jimmy Kimmel Live! are turning his spin into shrapnel.
Whoopi Goldberg: âHow dumb are you?â
When Trump flew to Pennsylvania for a rally while Florida was being hammered by Hurricane Milton, youâd think a sitting president would focus on disaster relief, federal aid, or emergency management.
Instead, he used precious stage time to attack daytime talk show hosts.
He called the women of The View âreally dumb

peopleâ and singled out Whoopi Goldberg, claiming he had hired her in the past and that her act was âfilthy, dirty, disgusting.â
Huge mistake.
The next morning, The View walked out to Christina Aguileraâs âDirrtyâ â full trolling mode engaged. The audience was already laughing before Whoopi spoke a word.
Then she went in.
âI was filthy,â she said, deadpan. âAnd I stand on that fact. I have always been filthy.â
She looked straight into the camera and reminded Trump of something he clearly hoped everyone forgot:
âYou knew that when you hired me. You hired me four times. I headlined, babe, at your casino â which I mightâve continued to play at if you hadnât run it into the ground. How dumb are you?â
Four bookings. Same act. Same material. Same âfilthyâ jokes. Trump was either lying now or pretending he didnât know then â and Whoopi made sure he looked foolish either way.
Then she twisted the knife:
What really set him off wasnât hurricanes, shutdowns, or national crises.
It was a daytime talk show triggering him so badly he had to admit, publicly, that he watches every episode.
âThis is what irritated him,â she said. âNot whatâs going on in this country. We irritated him enough that he had to admit he does watch the show.â
The audience exploded. Trump, the man who wants everyone to think heâs above it all, got exposed as just another obsessed viewer hate-watching people who tell the truth about him.
âThis is ridiculousâ: Whoopi vs. ABCâs fear
In 2025, things got even more surreal. During a segment about Trump pardoning crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao, Whoopi made a joke about Trump using an autopen â a machine that signs documents automatically.

It was obviously a joke. The audience laughed. Everyone got it.
Everyone except the nervous executives.
Producers handed Whoopi a blue card on air with a clarification: they couldnât confirm Trump used an autopen. They wanted her to essentially âfact-checkâ her own joke.
Whoopi read it, then snapped.
âWhat the hell? It was a joke,â she said, ripping up the note on live TV. âThe hardest thing about this job now is no one understands nuance. You know when Iâm serious. You know when Iâm making jokes. This is ridiculous.â
In that one moment, she wasnât just calling out Trump. She was calling out the culture of fear he created â where networks are so scared of retaliation they want legal disclaimers under punchlines.
Jimmy Kimmel vs. Trumpâs FCC Hammer
Meanwhile, over in late night, Jimmy Kimmel was fighting a more direct war.
In September 2025, Trumpâs FCC chair Brendan Carr tried to strong-arm ABCâs affiliates, hinting that they could lose their licenses if they kept airing Kimmelâs show. The result: Kimmel was briefly taken off the air.
When he came back, he didnât hold back.
Fighting through emotion, he told his audience:
âI have friends in Russia and the Middle East who tell me theyâd be thrown in prison for making fun of those in power. Our freedom to speak is what they admire most about this country. And I took that for granted â until they pulled my friend Stephen off the air and tried to scare stations into pulling me, too. Thatâs not legal. Thatâs not American. That is unAmerican â and it is dangerous.â
The crowd gave him a standing ovation. That episode became the most-watched of his career. His monologue went viral online. The attempt to silence him only made his voice louder.
Trump rage-posted that Kimmel shouldâve stayed cancelled. Kimmel calmly dismantled him the next night, line by line.
âOnly Donald Trump would try to prove he wasnât threatening ABC⊠by threatening ABC,â Kimmel said.
The Bottom Line
Trump calls them talentless, dumb, disgusting.
But hereâs what actually happened:
- He hired Whoopi Goldberg four times, loved her act, and now pretends he didnât.
- He threatened Jimmy Kimmelâs job â and turned him into a bigger platform for free speech than ever.
- He spent rally time during a hurricane ranting about talk show hosts instead of helping Americans.
- And both of them â Whoopi and Kimmel â are still on the air, still calling him out, still living rent-free in his head.
He can scream, sue, threaten, and whine all he wants.
But if you judge by whose words actually stuck with the public, itâs pretty clear:
Trump didnât destroy them.
They destroyed him â with jokes, receipts, and the one thing he canât fake: the truth.
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