Nicki Minaj, a radar-inventing uncle and a citizen's arrest in Kimmel's midterm monologue

Rally clips from Port Huron and Detroit set up most of the jokes, and Kimmel ends by imagining Trump renaming everything in sight.

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Trump Comments on Nicki Minaj’s “Beautiful Ass," Obama Roasts Trump & Midterm Shenanigans

Trump supplied the setups. Jimmy Kimmel's election-week monologue leans heavily on rally and news footage, and much of his job is standing next to it: a president announcing "My uncle invented radar. Can you believe it?", a Michigan crowd hearing a remark about Nicki Minaj's body, a former president mocking the White House décor in Detroit.

The Minaj moment arrives a little past the five-minute mark, from Trump's rally in Port Huron. Barack Obama follows from a Detroit campaign stop for Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed, with the line that has traveled all week: "He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." Kimmel then plays Trump's reply from a press conference.

In between, Kimmel squeezes in his own jokes. When Trump says the country was losing people "to death," Kimmel answers: "I lost my grandmother to death." When Trump offers a $1,000,000 reward on Truth Social for reports of voter fraud, Kimmel responds by placing the president under citizen's arrest. The closing segment is a parody video in which Trump renames landmarks, objects and people across the country, built on news Kimmel shares about Trump asking Google to rename the Atlantic Ocean.

The monologue passed four million views in a day, far beyond what a regular Kimmel upload usually draws, and comments arrived about ten times faster than usual. Much of the talk circles the Obama roast. Some viewers insist on getting the line right, since the joke was about Saddam Hussein opening the restaurant, not the White House being one. Others write in from Britain, France and Japan, urging Americans to vote.

It sits in a busy week for the show. Foo Fighters are performing every night, and Dave Grohl used his chair to tell the story of poaching drummer Taylor Hawkins from Alanis Morissette's band.

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A monologue that started far faster than the channel's usual regular-length video, with a comment section to match.

the video's first day

usual first day here

181,552

this video

4,266,856

subscribers

22,300,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

15,889,025,785

views per day

4,983,480

typical day: 3,137,553

the video

views

4,329,228

likes

103,308

comments

4,034

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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34,200,000

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22,300,000

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17,400,000

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14,100,000

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10,700,000

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10,200,000

As of October 28, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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