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Jimmy Kimmel Calls for Donald Trump to Resign Amid Republicans’ Midterm Elections Loss: ‘Quit Already … Nobody Wants You’
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Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in the US midterm elections, prompting Jimmy Kimmel to call on President Donald Trump to resign during his Wednesday monologue. The result matters because it marks a major electoral setback for Republicans, whom Trump had said would have won more races if he had been on the ballot.
Kimmel argued that Trump’s influence was already present throughout the campaign and mocked his shifting party affiliations. He also responded to a White House statement calling him a “no-talent loser” with “tanking ratings”, noting that similar remarks had been issued before; the article reports no move by Trump to resign.
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In short
- Democrats took both chambers of Congress.
- Kimmel urged Trump to resign after the Republican losses.
- He also answered a White House attack on his ratings.
How this story developed
- 18 minutes ago After Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in the US midterm elections, Jimmy Kimmel used his late-night monologue to urge President Donald Trump to resign.
- 25 minutes ago Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress in the US midterm elections, prompting Jimmy Kimmel to call on President Donald Trump to resign during his Wednesday monologue.
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The case for
Kimmel’s call to resign reflects the view that Trump’s influence was central to the campaign, so he cannot plausibly distance himself from the result by saying he was absent from the ballot. With both chambers lost, an advocate of this position could argue that resignation would acknowledge voters’ rejection and allow the country to move on from a divisive presidency.
The case against
A defender of Trump could argue that midterm losses do not, by themselves, show that a president should resign: voters choose congressional representatives for many reasons, and the next election offers a democratic route to judge his leadership. They might also see Kimmel’s demand as partisan entertainment rather than a serious constitutional argument, and maintain that Trump should serve his term unless he chooses otherwise or is removed through established processes.