While Europe braces for war scares and Ukraine’s president narrowly escapes an apparent assassination attempt by drones over Ireland, Donald Trump is busy doing something else entirely: welcoming Viktor Orbán to the White House and losing his mind over Jimmy Kimmel and Whoopi Goldberg.
Airports are cancelling flights, the U.S. government teeters on shutdown, families are wondering how they’ll buy groceries — and yet Trump’s priority is not stability, not NATO, not Ukraine. It’s revenge on comedians.
According to reporting cited on the show, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s plane landed early in Dublin just before four large, unidentified military-style drones entered the no-fly zone and began circling the airport. European officials called it “hybrid warfare” and strongly suspect Russia. Had Zelensky’s flight been on schedule, those drones might have been in his direct path.
While this is unfolding, Trump’s Treasury Department is easing certain sanctions on Russian energy giant Lukoil, extending a waiver that lets its branded gas stations keep operating abroad. European allies warn that Putin is openly threatening a full-scale war against Europe, and Zelensky is sounding the alarm that any “peace plan” cooked up behind his back is really a surrender plan.
Against this backdrop, two American entertainers have somehow become some of Trump’s most effective critics — and his biggest obsessions.
First is Whoopi Goldberg on The View. On December 8, she opened the show by ripping into Trump’s brand-new “FIFA Peace Prize,” a made-up award that reeks of flattery and self-worship. “You haven’t been the president for anybody,” she said, accusing him of caring more about fake trophies than real people. Her co-hosts called the prize “cringe” and transparent — a gold-plated trinket for a man desperate to compete with Barack Obama’s Nobel.
Ana Navarro even handed out fake gold medals to the other hosts to mock the whole charade, quipping that if you show up with something shiny, Trump will melt like a three-year-old in the Oval Office.
This is far from Whoopi’s first clash with Trump. At a rally, he ranted that The View hosts were “really dumb people” and told a weird story about hiring Whoopi for a show at his casino before allegedly storming out because her act was too filthy. The next day, Whoopi marched out on set to Christina Aguilera’s “Dirrty” and absolutely owned it.
“I was filthy,” she said. “I have always been filthy and you knew that when you hired me. I headlined at your casino, which I might have continued to play had you not run it into the ground. How dumb are you? You hired me four times. You didn’t know what you were getting? How dumb are you?”
Then she went further, warning viewers exactly what Trump has been saying out loud: he wants to be a “dictator on day one,” talks about putting journalists and LGBTQ people away, and reshaping America into something terrifyingly small and cruel. “If that’s the country you want,” she said, “you know who to vote for.”
Trump’s answer? At 1:32 a.m., the president of the United States logged onto Truth Social to post, “Canada doesn’t want you Whoopi. Nobody does.” The leader of a superpower, awake in the middle of the night, rage-posting about a daytime talk show host.
Jimmy Kimmel, meanwhile, has become the late-night mirror Trump cannot stand.
Kimmel has called out Trump for openly wanting him and “hundreds of people who work here” fired, for pressuring networks and cheering on Americans losing their jobs because he can’t take a joke. Kimmel warned viewers that when a president uses his office to target comedians and TV workers, it’s not just petty — it’s dangerous.
He’s also carved Trump up with precision comedy: mocking his attempt to wrap himself in religion by reading through the Ten Commandments and scoring Trump a pathetic “1 out of 10”; roasting his paranoia about escalators, teleprompters, and sabotage; and relentlessly highlighting Trump’s obsession with erasing Obama.
Then came the move that really twisted the knife.
When Google’s 2025 “trending people” list came out, Kimmel ranked number three worldwide. On air, he thanked Donald Trump for the bump — deadpan. “None of this would ever have happened without the support of loyal viewers like President Trump,” Kimmel said. “Thank you, Mr. President, for making me number three in the world.”
It worked, because it was true. Trump watches. Trump stews. On November 21, at 12:49 a.m. — just 11 minutes after Jimmy Kimmel Live ended on the East Coast — Trump jumped on Truth Social and rage-posted about the show.
He is, quite literally, boosting the very people he most wants silenced.
As Zelensky begs Europe and America to stand firm against Putin, as drones circle airports and sanctions wobble, the man who once called himself “leader of the free world” is consumed with Kimmel’s monologue and Whoopi’s punchlines.
They joke. He spirals. And every time he lashes out, he proves their point — live, in real time, for the whole planet to see.
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