Jimmy Kimmel slams ‘Spready Krueger’ Donald Trump after Florida rally
Late-night host reacts to Trump’s suggestion he might ‘kiss everyone’ after having Covid
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Your support makes all the difference.Jimmy Kimmel has reacted to Donald Trump’s Florida rally, renaming the president “Spready Krueger” after he held a rally in Florida — his first since contracting coronavirus.
“Trump did about an hour of material in Florida and he killed, he really killed,” Kimmel quipped on Tuesday’s episode of his show Jimmy Kimmel Live. “We’ll have to wait a week or two to see how many he killed, but he definitely killed.”
The host then reacted to a moment during the rally that saw Trump suggest he might “kiss everyone” at the rally, telling the crowd: “I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women. I'll give you a big, fat kiss.”
“The Covid made him horny,” Kimmel joked after playing a clip of the sequence. “Run, everybody!”
Kimmel also reflected on the lack of coronavirus safety measures at the event, describing the audience as “thousands of maskless people all there to see their beloved Spready Krueger”.
While the rally took place just a week after Trump left the hospital where he was treated for Covid-19, he kept downplaying the impact of the virus that has killed more than 215,000 people in the US.
Trump claimed during the event that he’s now “immune” to the virus.
However, Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious-disease expert, told CNN on Monday that those who recover from the disease are likely to have immunity for a limited period of time, with cases emerging of people getting reinfected weeks or months later.
Monday’s rally was part of an effort on Trump’s part to reinvigorate his campaign three weeks from the election. He was in Pennsylvania on Tuesday and is due in Iowa on Wednesday. His opponent Joe Biden campaigned in Florida on Tuesday after traveling to Ohio on Monday.
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