Donald Trump is spiraling, and two men he cannot silenceâJimmy Kimmel and Jim Carreyâare helping drive him over the edge.

After nearly a year of stalling, threatening, and twisting Republican arms to keep the Epstein files hidden, Trump suddenly flipped. In a late-night post, he wrote, âHouse Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files because we have nothing to hide.â
Thereâs no âwe.â Thereâs just him. And heâs terrified.
At Mar-a-Lago, Trump is rage-posting like a man who knows the walls are closing in. Heâs even rebranding his shrinking base, begging supporters to call themselves âTrumpansâ now that âMAGAâ is politically toxic. At the same time, heâs promising a pardon to Juan Orlando HernĂĄndezâthe former Honduran president convicted in U.S. court as a major drug trafficker. Hundreds of tons of cocaine, cartel partnerships, life sentences in federal prisonâand Trump calls him âtreated harshly and unfairly.â
Thatâs who heâs choosing to save while he cuts off food assistance in a shutdown, threatens to void Bidenâs executive orders over a made-up âautopen conspiracy,â and rants about prosecuting a former president for perjury⊠because a robot pen signed documents.

And the country is not buying it. A new Gallup poll shows Trump at 60% disapproval, just 36% approvalâhis worst Gallup numbers ever. Even some Republicans are done. When Trump used the R-word in a post attacking Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, an Indiana GOP state senatorâwhose daughter has Down syndromeâpublicly broke with him and refused to back Trumpâs gerrymander scheme. âGood luck, Donald,â was the message. Translation: Iâm out.
So how did late-night comedy and an âace Venturaâ with a paintbrush become his worst nightmare?
Jim Carrey: The Rage Artist
While most celebrities fired off angry tweets in 2016, Jim Carrey did something else: he picked up a paintbrush and never put it down.
What started as personal healing turned into a four-year visual indictment of Trumpâs presidency. Carrey posted more than a hundred savage political paintings: Trump as a shrieking monster, Trump worshiping himself, Trump devouring immigrant children, Trump as a grotesque cartoon of greed and cruelty. These werenât subtle. They were designed to hit the nervous system.
He pitched one of his most disturbing piecesâa warped, screaming Trumpâas a proposal for the official presidential portrait. He painted Sarah Huckabee Sanders as a twisted liar âwhose only purpose in life is to lie for the wicked.â Her father, Mike Huckabee, exploded online, calling Carrey a âpathetic bully.â Carrey didnât apologize. He just kept painting.
He told interviewers the cartoons werenât a hobbyâthey were a duty. âI canât just watch this nightmare unfold,â he said. And millions of people started sharing that nightmare back at Trump.
Jimmy Kimmel: The Joke That Wonât Leave Trumpâs Head
Then thereâs Jimmy Kimmel, living rent-free in Trumpâs brain.
At the 2024 Oscars, while Trump doom-scrolled Truth Social, Kimmel pulled out his phone and read Trumpâs hate-post about him live onstage⊠then sliced him with one line: âThank you, President Trump. Iâm surprised youâre still upâIsnât it past your jail time?â
The internet melted. Trump lost it.

Ever since, Trump has demanded Kimmel be fired, calling him talentless with âterrible ratings,â pressuring networks, and even weaponizing his FCC chair to threaten ABCâs license over jokesâespecially after Kimmel mocked Trumpâs attempt to bury the Epstein files and his shutdown that cut off food assistance to kids, families, and seniors.
Kimmel responds the same way every time: by showing Trumpâs posts on air, thanking him for âwatching live,â and turning Trumpâs obsession into punchlines. The more Trump attacks, the bigger Kimmelâs platform grows.
The Used Car Salesman President
When Jim Carrey sat down with Kimmel and later with Bill Maher, he distilled Trump into one image everyone understood: a sleazy used car salesman rolling back the odometer.
âHe didnât make America great again,â Carrey said. âHe just turned back the odometer.â
It was brutal because it was relatable. Everyoneâs met that guy. Everyoneâs been lied to by that guy. And Carrey, in his weird pajamas and Nike protest sneakers, framed Trump as the cheapest version of power: a con man selling a lemon country.
But Carrey also did something else Trump never will: he separated Trump from his voters. He said he could âbreak bread with anybody who voted for Trumpâ as long as they âstop doing stupid shit.â Itâs the opposite of Trumpâs instinct, which is to divide, punish, and threatenâeven joking about revoking peopleâs citizenship and openly interfering in elections abroad.
In the end, this is why Trump canât beat them.
Carreyâs paintings and Kimmelâs monologues are doing what institutions have struggled to do: strip away the myth and make Trump look small, ridiculous, and dangerous all at once. Trump keeps trying to crush themâthrough backlash, censorship threats, insults, and smear campaigns. But comedy and art are immune to autopen orders and late-night tantrums.
You canât sue a punchline out of existence. You canât pardon your way out of a painting.
And for a man who needs worship like oxygen, being laughed at by millionsânight after nightâmay be the one punishment he truly canât stand.
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