💥 BREAKING NEWS: Trump goes silent on Thanksgiving as Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert torch his Epstein panic, DC asylum scandal, and tacky watch grift on live TV⚡NN

Donald Trump is rattled—and the silence says it all.

Thanksgiving, a day he usually spends rage-posting caps-lock manifestos from Mar-a-Lago, came and went with nothing. No rants, no 20-post meltdowns, no new enemies of the day. Why? Because the walls are closing in on the one thing he’s most afraid of: the Epstein files—and two late night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, are making sure the whole country sees it.

The turning point came when the House of Representatives voted to release the Epstein files: 427–1. One lonely “no.” Colbert put it perfectly: “Who was the one vote to keep them secret? Do we have a picture of the guy who voted against it?” Cut to Trump. The audience howled. Then Colbert delivered the kill shot with a joke about a troll guarding the bridge to the files:

“What walks on two cankles in the morning, rides a golf cart in the afternoon, and is totally in the Epstein files?” Everyone knew the answer.

Trump’s been trying for months to bury those files. He leaned on Speaker Mike Johnson, weaponized his MAGA majority, and sent his regime figures like Cash Patel and Janine Pirro out to spin. But when Republicans started defecting—terrified of being seen as protecting a child sex trafficking ring—Trump pivoted overnight. Suddenly, he was for “maximum transparency,” pretending he’d always wanted the files released. Kimmel and Colbert weren’t buying it, and neither was anyone else.

While Trump hides, his regime keeps tripping over its own lies. The DC shooter scandal is a prime example. The gunman, Ramanullah Lanwal, had CIA ties in Afghanistan, was vetted by U.S. agencies, and—this is the key—was granted asylum in April 2025 under the Trump administration. Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem had to confirm it. Cash Patel, now Trump’s FBI director, tried to dodge the question and push reporters back to Noem rather than admit the obvious: Trump’s own regime let him in.

Then Janine Pirro walked up to the mic and blamed “improper vetting” for the shooting. Except… Trump’s people did the vetting. Trump’s people granted the asylum. Trump’s people gutted counterterrorism and replaced career experts with a 22-year-old fanboy landscaper as head of FBI counterterrorism. Kimmel and Colbert both seized on the absurdity: the same regime that can’t vet a shooter is flooding Washington, D.C. with National Guard troops like a dictator playing soldier in his capital.

And while that’s happening, Trump is busy hawking garbage merch.

On Fox-like channels, the “President” appears in pre-taped infomercials selling cheap Trump watches. “It’s Trump time,” he grins, telling people to go to gettrumpwatches.com and buy a “red beauty” for Christmas. Kimmel shredded him for it, reading reviews from supporters who never even got their orders. “I’ve got bad news,” Kimmel said. “They ARE living up to Trump’s standards.”

This is a man supposedly running the country like “a business,” reduced to pushing scam watches and overpricing his own Black Friday “deals” while crypto profits and ballroom fantasies in the White House swirl around him.

Through all of it, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel aren’t acting like competitors. They’re battle partners.

Their alliance was forged in the 2023 writers’ strike, when late-night went dark and the five big hosts—Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon, Meyers, Oliver—launched the StrikeForce 5 podcast to raise money for their staff. That project didn’t just pay bills; it built a brotherhood. Kimmel calls Colbert his “podcast brother.” Colbert openly vows to defend Kimmel when Trump attacks. So when Trump went after Kimmel after the Oscars, Colbert lit him up. And when Trump went after Colbert—suing media companies, threatening licenses, calling for cancellations—Kimmel hit back.

Trump used the power of the presidency, his FCC, and his media allies to try to crush both of them.

They responded with jokes.

Colbert mocked Trump’s obsession with the Epstein files and his delusion that he “ended eight wars.” Kimmel read Trump’s Truth Social posts out loud and thanked him for the ratings. Together, they’ve framed Trump as what he is: not a strongman, but a fragile man who cannot stand being laughed at—and yet keeps giving comedians free material.

Trump wanted them off the air. Instead, he turned them into a symbol.

Kimmel and Colbert’s alliance isn’t just late-night banter. It’s a reminder that when power tries to crush free speech, sometimes the strongest resistance is a punchline that lands so hard, even a would-be authoritarian can’t talk over the laughter.