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September 24, 2025 7 mins
Patrick Gutfield breaks down the week's wildest political moments: Jimmy Kimmel returns from suspension with a masterclass in not-really-apologizing, Emmanuel Macron calls Trump to complain about New York traffic (and tries to solve Gaza while he's at it), Trump demands a federal investigation into a malfunctioning UN escalator, and Zelensky discovers the secret to better US relations is Putin's constant lying. Plus, why Trump's pivot on Ukraine has everyone from France to Fox News doing double takes.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Callaroga Shark Media from Los Angeles, where you can go
ahead and subscribe to Hulu. This is ballad. That's right.
Jimmy Kimmel is back, so let's hit this. I'm Patrick
Gutfield and Jimmy Kimmel returned from his Disney suspension Tuesday night.
He struck that perfect tone of I'm sorry you were offended,

(00:26):
without actually saying he was wrong about anything. The whole
mess started when Kimmel made some clumsy remarks about Charlie
Kirk's death, connecting the shooting to the Maga gang and
joking that Trump's reaction was like how a four year
old mourns a goldfish. Disney yanked him off the air
faster than a parent grabbing the remote during an inappropriate
commercial Tuesday night, Kimmel got choked up, saying it was

(00:50):
never my intention to make light of the murder of
a young man. He made it clear that Trump wasn't
going to scare him into submission. This show is not important,
he said. What is important is that we get to
live in a country that allows us to have a
show like this. Trump being Trump, had already posted that
Kimmel puts ABC in Jeopardy and called him a major

(01:12):
illegal campaign contribution. Then he added this gem, last time
I went after them, they gave me sixteen million dollars.
This one sounds even more lucrative. That's referring to when
Disney settled a defamation case rather than fight it. Trump's
basically treating media lawsuits like a side hustle. At this point,

(01:32):
Kimmel fired back by pointing out that Trump's attacks actually
boosted his ratings. He tried his best to cancel me. Instead,
he forced millions of people to watch the show. That backfired.
Bigley then came the kicker. He might have to release
the Epstein files to distract us from this. Now, that's
a very specific way to change the subject. The show

(01:52):
featured Robert de Niro playing the new FCC chairman in
a sketch about suppressing free speech. De Niro explained the
new pricing structure. You want to say something nice about
the president's beautiful, thick yellow hair, that's free. But if
you want to do a joke like he's so fat
he needs two seats on the Epstein jet, that's going
to cost you a couple of fingers, maybe a tooth.

(02:15):
Kimmel also took shots at Disney, saying I was not
happy when they pulled me off the air. I did
not agree with that decision, which is a polite way
of saying my own network threw me under the bus.
So President Zelenski sat down with Fox News and basically said,
you know what, Trump and I are getting along better now,
which is Ukrainian for he stopped yelling at me in

(02:37):
the Oval office. Apparently Trump had a complete one eighty
on Ukraine just last month. He was all forgiving pootin
some land as a peace offering, kind of like when
your neighbor's dog keeps pooping on your lawn, so you
just give him half your yard. But now Trump's posting
on truth social saying Ukraine should get all their territory back.

(02:57):
That's quite the pivot. The Ukrainian president told Brett Bayer
he was surprised by Trump's shift. Surprised that's diplomatic speak
for what the hell happened. Emmanuel Macron was so excited
about Trump's new position he highlighted it during his UN speech.
When the French president is using your quotes as talking points,
you know you've made an impression. That's like having your

(03:19):
tweet get retweeted by your ex unexpected, but you'll take it.
Speaking of Macron, he just redefined diplomatic protocol by calling
Trump to complain about New York traffic. Most world leaders
use the hotline between nations to discuss nuclear weapons or
trade wars. Macron used it to vent about being stuck
behind a police barriccagent. After giving his un speech Monday night,

(03:42):
the French president found himself trapped behind barriers trying to
get to his country's mission. Instead of doing what normal
people do, which is sit there and suffer in silence
or tweet angrily, Macran decided this was the perfect time
to ring up the White House. How are you, he
says into his phone, caught on camera, Guess what I'm
waiting in the street because everything is frozen for you.

(04:03):
That's right. He called the President of the United States
to tell him his motor Kate was causing traffic problems.
That takes a special kind of confidence. But Macron being Macron,
he tried to turn his traffic complaint into a Gaza
peace negotiation. I would love this weekend to have a
short discussion with Kettar and you on the situation in Gaza.

(04:24):
Only the French president could pivot from New York City
traffic sucks to let solve Middle East peace this weekend.
The police officers looked mortified having to block a world leader.
One of them kept apologizing, I'm sorry, President, I'm really sorry.
It's just that everything's frozen right now. Macron joked about
wanting to negotiate his way through, which is in New York,

(04:46):
is going to take a well placed twenty. Then Macron
really went for it, telling French TV that if Trump
wants his Nobel Peace Prize, he needs to stop the
war in Gaza. There is one person who can do
something about it, and that is the US president, he said,
pointing out that America supplies the weapons being used while
France doesn't. It's international diplomacy meets road rage counseling. When

(05:16):
President Trump went to address the UN General Assembly Tuesday,
apparently the only thing that stopped working faster than international
diplomacy was the escalator. The moment Trump and Milania stepped on,
it just stopped, which is either the world's most specific
technical malfunction or the escalator has opinions about foreign policy.

(05:38):
The video is everywhere online. Trump steps on escalator says nope,
and suddenly the leader of the Free world is looking
around like he's waiting for tech support. After a few
awkward moments, Milania just starts walking up the stairs, which
honestly might be the most relatable thing that's happened at
the UN in decades. We've all been there. Something breaks,

(05:59):
You stand there fused for a second, then you just
deal with it. Trump being Trump, he complained about it
multiple times during his actual speech to world leaders. All
I got from the United Nations was an escalator on
the way up that stopped right in the middle. That's right.
He used his time addressing the global community to air
his grievances about vertical transportation. He also said Milania would

(06:21):
have fallen if she wasn't in great shape, which is
a weird flex, but okay, my wife has excellent escalator reflexes.
Isn't typically presidential bragging material, but here we are. The
UN spokesman Stephan A. Dujarik explained that a White House
videographer walking backward up the escalator probably triggered a safety mechanism,

(06:42):
so the escalator stopped not because of some international conspiracy,
but because someone was filming while moonwalking. The escalator's safety
system kicked in to prevent accidents, which is ironic since
it nearly caused one. But naturally this became grounds for
investigation and retribution. White House Press Secretary Caroline Levi posted
on x demanding that if someone intentionally stopped the escalator,

(07:04):
they need to be fired and investigated immediately. Yes, let's
launch a federal investigation into escalator gate. I'm sure there's
a task force forming as we speak, and they happen
to be staying at some Trump owned property, so we
can double bill the government. A technician reset the escalator
as soon as everyone walked upstairs, which probably took all

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of thirty seconds. Portions of today's show were made with
the help of AI
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