Jimmy Kimmel sets Trump's Triumphal Arch against veterans' budget cuts

With veterans in the audience, his Veterans Day monologue also revisits the Arlington guard's rebuke and closes on a parody doll commercial.

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The veterans in Jimmy Kimmel's studio audience were not there by chance. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a guest on the same night, says in his separately posted interview that he invited the group to the taping. Kimmel greets them in his opening minute, and the rest of the monologue keeps returning to them.

The first target is Donald Trump's Veterans Day speech at Arlington National Cemetery, including his remark that "to the victor belong the spoils, they used to say." Next comes footage of the honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier telling Pete Hegseth's group that "all visitors will maintain an atmosphere of silence and respect at all times," followed by the Pentagon statement backing the soldier.

The longer argument is about money. Kimmel puts a rendering of Trump's proposed Triumphal Arch for Washington beside cuts affecting veterans, and that comparison is what many commenters pick up on. Several who describe themselves as military families or retired service members answer with the same two words: no arch.

The upload passed 4.7 million views within a day, and its comments arrived more than twelve times faster than on a usual first day for the show. Schwarzenegger's interview was another unusually fast starter.

The monologue then moves through a lighter lineup: the note Trump reportedly left for Joe Biden ("First of all, there's no way he wrote that," Kimmel says), Rex Ryan's arrest, and a Notre Dame fan who lost his dentures on game day. Kimmel finishes with a mock toy commercial for a "White House Natalie" doll, modeled on Trump aide Natalie Harp.

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The numbers

A regular Jimmy Kimmel Live upload usually reaches about 200,000 views on its first day. This one drew more than twenty times that.

the video's first day

usual first day here

203,826

this video

4,736,912

subscribers

22,300,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

15,991,105,009

views per day

9,005,675

typical day: 5,531,453

the video

views

4,706,431

likes

113,313

comments

4,073

days online

1

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As of November 13, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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