Jimmy Kimmel has questions about the letter that Donald Trump left for Joe Biden on his way out of the White House in 2021.
It’s a long-held American tradition for the outgoing president to leave a private, handwritten message for their successor in the Oval Office, but Biden wrote in his upcoming memoir Promise Me, America that he was surprised by the uncharacteristically kind tone of Trump’s letter after enduring years of insults from him.
In the letter, Trump wrote to Biden: “Not only are you joined by the past, but you carry the hopes and dreams of the entire nation on your shoulders. The gravity of that fact never leaves you; it is the anchor that grounds every decision you make.”
Kimmel read out the aforementioned excerpt during Wednesday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, continuing: “Your strength, your deepest reservoir of energy, comes from the knowledge that millions upon millions of people are depending on you. Their ambitions and aspirations are the reason you’re here, with so many counting on your success. May God bless you and Jill, and may God bless America.”
But the late night host did not buy it.
“First of all, there’s no way he wrote that,” Kimmel said. “I mean, not only is there no way he wrote it, I bet he didn’t even read it.”
He then went on to demand that the person who actually wrote it come forward, saying, “But what I want to know is where is the person who did write it? Why is that person not in charge of his tweets or speeches or anything for that matter?”
Even though the letter was reportedly written on official White House stationery in Trump’s signature Sharpie, Kimmel pointed out all the ways that the note differed from the president’s usual language in Truth Social posts and elsewhere.
“It’s gracious. It’s poetic. There are no spelling errors. There are no words in all caps,” he pointed out, joking, “No blobs of ranch dressing on the signature.”
Kimmel added: “Find the person who wrote that letter from the president and make that person chief of staff instead of Stephen Miller.”
Later in his monologue, the late night host addressed the “Gigglegate” that came out of Trump’s recent call into C-SPAN.
The call made headlines after the audio started out with a giggle that the White House later denied, with Kimmel speculating that the laugh belonged to Natalie Harp, the special assistant and executive assistant to the president.
“Here’s another mystery that needs to be solved,” Kimmel said. “I showed a clip last night of President Trump calling into C-SPAN. They have a new call-in show, and I guess he couldn’t resist calling in, and he surprised the host, and when she answered the call, we heard a woman laughing who definitely wasn’t the first lady.”
He continued: “Okay, so we know from an interview he did last week that his assistant Natalie, one of her jobs is to place these calls. And we presumed the woman laughing was Natalie.
“But for whatever reason, with all the many problems they have on their plate, the White House felt the need to issue a statement about this pushing back,” he explained. “They said, ‘The laugh is leftover audio from a previous caller who had not disconnected yet.’”
However, Kimmel pushed back that the White House’s explanation made “very little sense” because the previous caller was a man named Doug, but the laugh sounded like a woman’s laugh.
“But what makes even less sense is the fact that they released a statement about this,” he said. “It’s like some kind of Gigglegate. I would have forgotten about it already. It kind of makes you wonder why they’re so eager to deny that it was Natalie’s laugh.”
The Independent has contacted The White House for comment.
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