Jimmy Kimmel mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene’s ‘dumbest idea yet’

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel mocked far-right congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for what he described as her “dumbest idea yet” following the discharge of her new guide.

The Republican congresswoman launched her memoir – titled “MTG” – on Tuesday, with Donald Trump selling it on his Truth Social platform.

On Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday night time, Mr Kimmel gave viewers a hilarious run-down of its contents as he mocked the lawmaker saying “it’s the first book she’s ever written or read”.

“Speaking of Christmas in hell, Marjorie Taylor Greene released a book today. It’s the first book she’s ever written or read, and it’s called MTG, it’s got a little bit of everything,” he mentioned.

“It’s got some revisionist history, it’s got conspiracy theories, it’s got Jewish space lasers, and of course Marje’s famous recipe for Gazpacho Police in a petri dish, which is getting a lot of negative views online, which I guess is what happens when you tell your supporters that reading makes them gay,” he added.

The comic was referencing a 2022 video during which Ms Greene appeared to confuse the identify of the Nazi celebration’s secret police – the Gestapo – with Gazpacho, and a separate video the place the Maga Republican bizarrely claimed the federal government was planning to drive Americans to eat faux meat grown by Bill Gates in a “peach tree dish”.

Ms Greene’s guide additionally features a entire chapter devoted to hitting again at antisemitism allegations stemming from her infamous 2018 Facebook put up pushing a conspiracy concept that “Jewish space lasers” had brought about wildfires in California.

While the lawmaker promised to inform her “side of the story” in regards to the saga within the guide, she has come underneath hearth for once more pushing false claims.

Ms Greene claimed that no Democrats remained within the House chamber to defend it from Donald Trump supporters through the January 6 Capitol riot, The Guardian reported. This contradicts quite a few accounts from the day.

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Mr Kimmel went on to single out what he known as Ms Greene’s “dumbest” concept to this point.

“A PR person for her publishing company said ‘few individuals have taken Congress by storm in the same way she has,’ which is true, and especially impressive when you consider most of the people who did take Congress by storm are in federal custody right now,” he mentioned.

“Marjorie Taylor Greene – not a bright woman. She says very stupid things on a daily basis but her new idea might just be her dumbest yet.”

The firebrand MAGA Republican additionally just lately known as for the creation of a brand new January 6 House committee to analyze the present January 6 House committee, which had beneficial Mr Trump face fees over the Capitol riot.

“We need accountability so I’ve called on Speaker Johnson to create a new January 6 election committee because we need to hold the old January 6 committee accountable, Nancy Pelosi accountable, we need to subpoena the FBI, the Department of Justice, and anyone else who was involved in what I would call actually the real big lie. That’s the big lie is what happened on January 6,” she advised Newsmax.

Mr Kimmel mocked Ms Greene for her feedback, describing her as “not a bright woman”.

“She says very stupid things on a daily basis but her new idea might just be her dumbest yet,” he mentioned, earlier than displaying a clip of the congresswoman’s interview.

“Oh, so she wants to create a January 6 committee to investigate the January 6 committee? And do January 6 all over again I guess,” he joked.

“It’s brilliant!” he added. “Does she need to write a book? Couldn’t we have given her some crayons and a Denny’s placemat and get that out of her system?”

Elsewhere within the present, Mr Kimmel additionally poked enjoyable at an assault advert launched by Mr Trump about his GOP presidential rival Nikki Haley.

“Fox News gave up on Ron DeSanctimonious. He’s turned out to be a disaster. Now they’re pushing bird brain. You know who that is? Nikki Haley,” Mr Trump says within the video.

“What a message,” Mr Kimmel responded. “Stern words from a man whose hair looks exactly like a bird’s nest,” he joked.

Former UN ambassador Ms Haley is at the moment polling in second place within the New Hampshire primaries behind Mr Trump.

A latest ballot discovered that she would beat each Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and President Joe Biden within the state.