The late-night host spoke at length about D-Day: “Dementia Day.”

Jimmy Kimmel celebrates a civilization not ending: ‘It was the taco Tuesday of all taco Tuesdays’

The late-night host spoke at length about D-Day: "Dementia Day."

April 8, 2026 1:36 a.m. ET

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Jimmy Kimmel delivers his April 7 opening monologue on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live'. Credit:

Donald Trump's tough talk really seems to be getting on Jimmy Kimmel's nerves.

The late-night host roasted the president for his tough talk on Iran on Tuesday's episode of *Jimmy Kimmel Live*."

"Probably the most dangerous episode of *The Celebrity President* yet today: It was D-Day. In this case, the 'd' stands for 'dementia,' but it was D-Day today. We're coming to you from Los Angeles where the local time's just after 5 p.m., which was Trump's deadline for Iran to quote, 'Open the effing straight or you'll be living in hell.' He gave a hard cut off time of now — of right now. And then this morning he wrote, 'A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.'"

The audience jeered at the prospect.

"I agree. I'm against civilizations being annihilated as well. Thank you for taking a stand," Kimmel replied.

"Realize this is the same man that was just he was bitching about losing the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he's threatening a civilization with death. He went from Mahatma Gandhi to General Zod like that," he continued. "And so all day today, everyone — most notably the people of Iran — were wondering if their civilization was going to die tonight. Well, good news: It didn't. It was the taco Tuesday of all taco Tuesdays, as our president decided not to drop the chalupa for at least another two weeks."

"He announced that at the request of Pakistan, which has been facilitating negotiations, he was giving Iran two weeks to live. This is how it goes every single time: Trump says something insane — he says, 'I'm going to kill everybody tomorrow at 5 p.m.' — we all freak out, and then he backs [down]. He's like, 'You know what? Actually, I'll kill everyone in two weeks.' And then we relax, and then he forgets he ever said it in the first place. He has the memory and the skin color of a goldfish," he said.

The worst part may be, Kimmel said — "we know he's bananas" — is "how relaxed the Congressional Republicans are about it. Now, he threatens to annihilate a civilization, [and] they're like, 'Well, you know how he is: He's a big talker.'"

Kimmel made note of how often the president defers a decision or action for "two weeks," playing a highlight reel of Trump giving his "two weeks notice."

But unlike the "conscientious employee" Kimmel compared Trump to, he thinks some observers want to see the former *Apprentice *host fired. (The irony.)

"Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Candace Owens, and his former communications director Anthony Scaramucci, they're calling on the cabinet to implement the 25th Amendment," Kimmel said. "You know things are bad when the crazy people think you're too crazy to be president. I mean, what a plot twist."

Jimmy Kimmel delivers his monologue on the April 7 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' episode.

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Also, he said, "If the president thinks that any of this is going to distract us from the fact that his name appears hundreds of thousands of times in the Trump-Epstein files, he's got another thing coming."

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