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Jimmy Kimmel meets a 19-year-old clerk-elect who is "not just any 19-year-old"

Before Sebastian Matta's video call, Kimmel offers a $129 Doomsday Food Bucket and a countdown of Trump's unkept pledges.

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Trump Rants & Raves About the Least Important Things Ever & All the Promises He’s Failed to Fulfill

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0:00Kimmel opens with Democratic midterm wins and a few unusual race results, including Iowa and Mississippi.
2:40Trump's post-election complaints: Daylight Saving Time, a triumphal arch and an Oval Office landmark proclamation.
7:44Newsmax's Carl Higbie and a confused voter interview get the Kimmel treatment.
9:53Kimmel pitches the $129 "Kimmel Doomsday Food Bucket" for upset conservatives.
12:11The "Promises Made, Promises Slept" countdown pairs Trump's pledges with clips of him asleep.
15:43Nineteen-year-old clerk-elect Sebastian Matta joins by video call about his Maricopa County win.

Sebastian Matta is 19, a college sophomore and the newly elected clerk of the Maricopa County Superior Court. He joins Jimmy Kimmel by video call near the end of the show's latest post-election hour, and he has already prepared for the obvious objection: "I understand that it's very scary to have a 19-year-old be your boss, but I am not just any 19-year-old."

The rest of the hour belongs to the president. Kimmel's premise, and the source of the upload's title, is that the losing side's routine runs in two steps: "First, you blame everybody else for it, and then you rant and you rave about the least important things imaginable." His examples include Daylight Saving Time, a proposed triumphal arch and Trump's proclamation turning the Oval Office decor into a national monument, "a landmark for the ages," in Trump's own words.

Then the jokes widen. Newsmax's Carl Higbie gets roasted, Rudy Giuliani struggles with his own election-night webcast, and Kimmel offers upset conservatives a bipartisan gesture: the "Kimmel Doomsday Food Bucket," $129 plus shipping. A countdown called "Promises Made, Promises Slept" sets pledges on Ukraine and Iran beside clips of Trump asleep, and "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship" makes its weekly appearance.

The upload passed five million views within its first day, when a regular Jimmy Kimmel Live video usually draws a couple of hundred thousand. Comments arrived about twenty times faster than usual, many of them congratulations from viewers writing in from Canada, Australia, Kenya, Scotland and Bhutan.

Matta, for his part, draws a blank on Kimmel's Doogie Howser comparison ("Can't say, I was born this century") and leaves any longer political career to a later version of himself: "My future aspirations are a problem for Sebastian in four years who can drink." Kimmel signs off with a promise of oversight: "We'll keep an eye on you and we'll make sure you're doing the right thing, all right?"

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