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Jimmy Kimmel Calls for Donald Trump to Resign Amid Republicans’ Midterm Elections Loss: ‘Quit Already … Nobody Wants You’
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. Kimmel rejected Trump’s claim that Republicans would have done better if he had been on the ballot, arguing that Trump’s influence was already present across the campaign.
Kimmel also mocked Trump’s political history and responded to a White House statement that called him a “no-talent loser” with “tanking ratings”. He noted that the statement echoed earlier White House remarks about him, then joked that election day was a poor time to call him a loser. The article reports Kimmel’s commentary and the White House’s response; it does not describe any move by Trump to resign.
In short
- Kimmel urged Trump to resign after Democratic midterm gains.
- Democrats took control of the House and Senate.
- Kimmel and the White House traded jabs.
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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.