Jimmy Kimmel pressed Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on the morality and American-ness of his proposed ban on Muslims entering the country on Wednesday night.
Because of the coziness of a late-night talkshow, Trump was unable to deliver his usual soliloquy about his proposed ban.
Kimmel asked if “bad stuff” happening really justified his policy proposal.
“There is a lot of bad stuff,” Kimmel said. “But do you think there’s any truth to the argument when you do something like this, when you say something like this it helps recruiting, helps ISIS, because it makes people angry. Somebody who’s Muslim and whose never had those thoughts, goes, ‘Why can’t I go to Disneyland?’ “
Trump said he “doesn’t buy that argument” that he is fueling recruiting.
Kimmel asked him, “But isn’t it un-American and wrong to discriminate against people based on their religion?”
“Some of them aren’t so thrilled with what I said,” Trump said of his Muslim friends. But Trump said he has received a lot of support.
“Those might have been crank calls,” Kimmel said.
The late-night host eventually backed off Trump and presented him with a children’s book based on his campaign speeches.
Watch the clip, from ABC, below:
NO. ExCePT for ChrisTiaNS. ANd maybe JEws.
I wanna discriminate against guys with bad bouffants…
Michael Moore think it’s wrong.
The people responsible for the Paris attacks “didn’t come from Sweden.” It had to be Sweden. It couldn’t have been Colombia, or Thailand, or India. No, lily-white Sweden. Make America White Again.
Dear Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon, et al: I don’t care how many eyeballs this polyester-headed tinpot fascist draws: putting him on your shows and talking to him as if he’s a viable human just legitimizes him. Can ya stop doin’ it please? KThnxBai