Guillermo arrives as Mister Softee, and Yankees fans try kindness, on Kimmel's fourth Brooklyn night
The monologue took on a billion-dollar ballroom and Pete Hegseth's speech at Quantico, and an interview with John Oliver and Seth Meyers drew a big crowd the same day.
Jimmy Kimmel LiveStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 2,719,821 views a day, 16 times a normal first day on this channel (172,467).
Trump Makes Up New Racial Stereotypes, Shows Off Billion Dollar Ballroom & Hegseth Crazy at Quantico
"Trump Makes Up New Racial Stereotypes, Shows Off Billion Dollar Ballroom & Hegseth Crazy at Quantico" is the monologue from the fourth night of Jimmy Kimmel Live's week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. It drew close to 2.8 million views in its first day, many times what a new upload on the channel usually manages.
The show starts with Guillermo dressed as Mister Softee, the soft-serve truck whose jingle drifts down New York streets every summer. He hands everyone in the audience a tub of his own Guillermo's Salsa. Then the news: anchors who cannot believe it is already October, and Trump saying the country is doing really well. According to the description, Trump used Hispanic Heritage Month as a chance to show off his billion-dollar ballroom. Pete Hegseth's "State of the Forces" speech at Quantico, the Marine Corps base in Virginia, gets its turn too. The night closes with a street bit made for a New York crowd: Yankees fans asked to say something nice about the Red Sox.
The comments came in about six times faster than on a usual first day. The most liked ones urge people to vote in the November midterms. Further down, Red Sox fans admit the last few minutes were hard to sit through.
The monologue had company. A sit-down with John Oliver and Seth Meyers, posted the same day, is near 1.8 million views. The two talk about Guillermo's run on Dancing with the Stars, their own residency at the Beacon Theatre, the friendship among the late-night hosts and why, in the title's words, Trump hates Jimmy most. The Brooklyn week has since wrapped with a last show, in which Jon Stewart plays one of the city's "Urban Scavengers," hunting for gold underground.
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- Channel
- Jimmy Kimmel Live
- Subscribers
- 22,300,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 38,204,459
- Channel views, pace per day
- 11,633,860 (on a normal day: 3,269,880)
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 2,751,720 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 2,678,585
The numbers
Two videos from the same Brooklyn night ran far ahead of the channel's usual first day, and the monologue led them.
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Yankees and Red Sox fans still talk about the "Curse of the Bambino." Which player did Boston sell to New York to start it?
The Red Sox sold Babe Ruth, nicknamed the Bambino, to the Yankees after the 1919 season, and Boston did not win another World Series until 2004.
