Jimmy Kimmel replays a rally-goer who came to see "a cult right up front"

A Fox News interview in Rock Hill, South Carolina, supplies the line viewers repeat most, in a monologue that also takes in Obama's tan-suit comeback.

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Trump Lashes Out at a Reporter, Hecklers Take Over His Rallies & Obama's Cheesecake Factory Response

Fox News reporter Lucas Tomlinson was outside a Trump rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, asking people why they had come. A man named Tom gave him an answer the network probably did not expect. "Well, in the late '70s I was a little too young to get involved and, um, go to South America for the Jonestown massacre," he says, before adding: "It's nothing like seeing a cult right up front, man."

Jimmy Kimmel plays the exchange in full, and it is the moment viewers keep returning to under the video. The comments quote Tom back to Kimmel again and again, and several marvel that the line made it onto Fox at all.

The rest of the monologue is built from Donald Trump meeting people who are not on his side. It opens with footage of the president snapping at a Reuters reporter outside his plane ("You are a sick guy. Reuters is terrible by the way"). Then come Trump and Melania handing out candy on the White House South Lawn, a heckler shouting about Jeffrey Epstein's plane, which sends Trump into his account of throwing Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, and a rally boast about cognitive tests: "I aced it. Zero mistakes all three times." Kimmel answers that one with jokes about what those screenings are actually for.

Hecklers have become a running thread on the show this week. As we reported here, a heckler at Trump's Corinth, Mississippi rally ended up on a Kimmel T-shirt.

Barack Obama gets the softer spot, about nine minutes in. Responding to right-wing media calling him a snob over a remark about the White House and the Cheesecake Factory, he tells a campaign crowd: "I am old enough to remember when a president wearing a tan suit was a major national controversy." The monologue closes with "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship," where bleeps and blurs turn harmless TV clips into something else.

It drew about 3.7 million views in its first day, roughly twenty times the usual start for the show's regular videos, and its comments arrived nearly twelve times faster than usual. Posted the same day, Christopher Lloyd's interview about turning 88 and meeting Princess Diana sits far behind it.

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The numbers

A first day far beyond the show's usual, with a comment section to match.

the video's first day

usual first day here

179,586

this video

3,744,586

subscribers

22,300,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

15,910,308,364

views per day

12,693,376

typical day: 3,529,937

the video

views

3,794,969

likes

91,350

comments

4,162

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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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

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