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Jimmy Kimmel follows Trump's midterm spin from Mississippi to Nvidia

Scott Colom's Senate upset opens the monologue, which later moves through Iran, a Seattle cat convention and another round of pointless bleeps.

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Trump Spins Over Huge Midterm Defeat, Pulls JD Vance Off Iran & Nvidia CEO’s Chinese Spy Sex Scandal

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0:00Kimmel celebrates Scott Colom's Senate win in Mississippi and compares the night to John Wick.
1:23Trump's early-morning posts about the midterm losses get Kimmel's reading.
2:22Kimmel fact-checks Trump's claims about donating his salary and avoiding corruption.
4:10Reports that JD Vance was moved from Iran talks to investigating blue-state corruption.
5:48Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia, with Trump's defense and Giuliani's pronunciation trouble following.
12:24"This Week in Unnecessary Censorship" bleeps and blurs harmless TV moments.

Jimmy Kimmel began with Mississippi, where Scott Colom's Senate victory had given Democrats the upset of their midterms. Kimmel had an action-movie comparison ready for the night: "It's the political equivalent of what happened to the guys who killed John Wick's dog."

The monologue drew about 4.5 million views in its first 23 hours, more than twenty times the usual start for a regular upload on the show's channel. It outpaced even the Arnold Schwarzenegger interview posted a day earlier, and its comment section filled about seven times faster than usual. Much of that conversation is about Colom and Mississippi. Viewers from abroad also joined in, and some used the occasion to wish Kimmel a happy birthday.

The title promises a president spinning a defeat, and Kimmel spends the next few minutes on Donald Trump's early-morning posts and his claims about donating his salary. Then comes the report that JD Vance has been taken off the Iran negotiations and assigned to investigate corruption in Democratic-led states. Kimmel's verdict: "Trump telling you to root out corruption is like Colonel Sanders telling you to root out cholesterol."

Next he turns to Jensen Huang's resignation from Nvidia after reports of extramarital affairs, one reportedly with a Chinese spy. That gets a clip of Trump defending him and a short reply from Kimmel: "That's the point of being a spy!" Rudy Giuliani then struggles to pronounce the company's name.

The last stretch heads somewhere stranger: a protester disrupting Seattle's "Sea-Meow" cat convention, a donkey and a bull who became inseparable in Ethiopia, and "This Week in Unnecessary Censorship," where perfectly harmless TV moments get bleeped into something that sounds far worse.

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