Jimmy Kimmel was in a state of disbelief when he discovered himself agreeing with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene after she criticized Republicans for refusing to swear in a newly-elected Democrat.
The late evening host highlighted the conservative congresswoman’s name out of GOP leaders throughout his opening monologue for “Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” on Thursday evening.
Within the information section shared on the present, Greene blasted her Republican friends for not swearing in Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva, who will seemingly be the deciding vote within the discharge petition — an effort to launch the case information associated to Jeffrey Epstein. Speaker of the Home Mike Johnson beforehand stated Grijalva can be sworn in as soon as the Home is again in common session.
Greene made it clear she didn’t agree with this determination throughout an look on CNN Thursday, the place she stated: “Why drag this out? That’s going to have 218 signatures. And so, I say, go forward and do it and get it over with.”
Kimmel took a second to let his viewers give Greene a spherical of applause earlier than including, “I don’t know what’s happening. I don’t know if she had a near-death expertise or possibly a medication ball fell off a shelf on the health club and hit her on the pinnacle.”
Kimmel let extra of Greene’s interview play, the place she additionally famous that “costs haven’t come down” and “folks’s wages haven’t gone up,” a sentiment typically lambasted by the left.
“That’s Marjorie Taylor Greene! Hold that up and also you’ll be dancing with Unhealthy Bunny on the halftime present,” Kimmel chimed in. “Do you suppose the opposite Republicans perceive how unhealthy she’s making them look? She’s imagined to be the loopy one within the group.”
Watch the monologue within the clip above.
“Jimmy Kimmel Reside!” airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. ET on ABC.
