Jimmy Kimmel criticized Donald Trump for a new attack on Joe Biden, calling him “Crooked Joe”.
Trump had previously used the nickname “Crooked” exclusively for Hillary Clinton throughout 2016 and beyond.
“Crooked was his nickname for Hillary, all right? It was ‘Crooked Hillary’ and you can’t just reassign a nickname,” Kimmel said. “You can’t have Magic Johnson and Magic Larry Bird. It doesn’t work like that.”
Kimmel said Trump can’t just reassign nicknames, likening it to calling both Magic Johnson and Larry Bird “Magic”.
While Trump said last year he would retire “Crooked Hillary” and call her “Beautiful Hillary” instead to shift the insult to Biden, Kimmel said this was just lazy and Trump should be ashamed of his unoriginal attack, arguing you can’t reassign established nicknames to different people.
“This is just lazy Donald Trumping is what it is,” he said. “I know he’s not ashamed of anything, he should at least be ashamed of this.”
Kimmel slammed Trump’s ongoing attacks on his Truth Social site as “particularly upsetting”.
