Jimmy Kimmel is being called out for allegedly gaslighting the American public on Disney-owned ABC after delivering a fiery monologue downplaying the chaos erupting across Los Angeles this week in what is being called LA riots by many. In a show filmed just blocks from looted storefronts and burning cars, the late-night host dismissed the reports of unrest as nothing more than political theater orchestrated by President Donald Trump and cable news outlets.
“There’s no riot outside,” Kimmel told his audience, mocking coverage of the ongoing ICE raids and the federal troop deployment. “We have more so-called unrest here when one of our teams wins a championship.”
This is the true face of the far-left.
It’s time to realize they are the biggest threat to democracy.
SHARE – The media will not tell you the truth about the riots in LA 👇pic.twitter.com/pANPyxEOdQ
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) June 9, 2025
Unfortunately for Kimmel, video footage, police reports, and local news paint a very different picture.
Jimmy Kimmel Full Quotes on the LA Riots
The following are full unedited quotes from Jimmy Kimmel concerning the LA riots.
A screenshot of Jimmy Kimmel crying on TV after the election of Donald Trump – YouTube, Jimmy Kimmel Live
“There’s no riot outside. We have more so-called unrest here when one of our teams wins a championship. But that’s not what you’re seeing on TV.”
“Trump wants it to seem like anarchy, so he goes around our governor, he calls in 4,000 troops from the National Guard, 700 active Marines.”
“You know, when we had the wildfires that devastated big chunks of our city, he did absolutely nothing. Now that we’re in the middle of a non-emergency, send in the National Guard!”
“Everyone in this room right now knows that none of these doomsday scenarios the president and his minions keep imagining aloud are remotely true. There are no mobs. There’s no violent insurrection. There are Americans who are upset, marching to protect their neighbors, no matter what this sick person says.”
“And to protest that, which is not only our right as Americans, it’s our responsibility, Los Angelenos have been gathering to demonstrate – with very few exceptions, peacefully demonstrate – to voice their opposition to this disgusting and unnecessary abuse of power instigated by our mentally ill president.”
“Donald Trump created this problem. He’s putting the police and the military in danger. He is the one deporting children and their parents without any process. He’s the one who has ICE agents outside immigration offices arresting the people who showed up to do the right thing and check in with the immigration office.”
“This is not a problem we have, this is a problem he made, and is intentionally doing everything he can to make it worse.”
“He is purposefully pitting Americans against each other to create protest p**n for Fox News.”
Downtown LA Engulfed in Unrest
Despite Kimmel’s insistence that Los Angeles is business as usual, reality has caught up with his rhetoric.
“There’s no riot”
Jimmy Kimmel goes on a rant attacking Trump for trying to restore law and order in LA.
Sounds like he’s siding with violent rioters who threw bricks at cops, burned cars, and looted and burned businesses for days. pic.twitter.com/v2JOWgpr72
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 11, 2025
The city has seen:
- Looting of major stores including Adidas, Jordan, and Apple retailers
- Vehicles set ablaze and multiple gas stations vandalized
- Dozens of arrests, with ICE confirming over 100 detained in their ongoing raids
- Clashes with law enforcement, including assaults on officers and deployment of rubber bullets and tear gas
- A curfew imposed in parts of downtown Los Angeles due to safety concerns
Live footage from local journalists shows protestors clashing with law enforcement units. President Trump has invoked emergency powers—sending over 4,000 National Guardsmen and 700 Marines into the city. California Governor Gavin Newsom has since filed a lawsuit, calling the move unconstitutional and inflammatory.
When you see the photos and videos coming out of LA, it’s important to remember that Democrats are literally FUNDING it.
Democrats are funding the riots and destruction of our cities. pic.twitter.com/vUGH7Tco9R
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 10, 2025
Kimmel, however, chose to frame the situation as manufactured outrage, saying, “Trump wants it to seem like anarchy… he actually wants conflict.”
A City Under Siege
Contrary to Kimmel’s claim that “there are no mobs,” downtown L.A. has been home to roving groups breaking into shops and setting fires. Even traditionally sympathetic outlets like The Guardian and Los Angeles Times have acknowledged the destruction and the tensions between ICE, federal agents, and protestors.
Looting begins: Leftist and Mexican nationalist rioters have smashed up and robbed a convenience store in Compton, Los Angeles. The violence is organized as an insurrection against the government. All manner of criminal elements are invited to sew chaos. pic.twitter.com/uQFTWIPUJW
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) June 8, 2025
This comes at the same time that Kimmel bragged about a Disney Pixar premiere happening just down the block—pointing to it as proof that life in Los Angeles is completely normal. Never mind the burned-out gas stations, looted retail chains, and emergency curfews.
Gaslighting on a National Stage
Kimmel’s monologue wasn’t just out of touch—it was provably false.
- “No violent insurrection”? Police have confirmed dozens of violent incidents.
- “No riots”? Multiple stores have been looted on live television.
- “Non-emergency”? The National Guard and Marines don’t deploy for no reason.
This is the kind of public gaslighting that frustrates ordinary Americans watching their cities devolve into chaos while coastal elites chuckle from behind their studio podiums.
The LA immigration riots have already devolved into looting. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/pnfnEcIqXl
— INFOWARS (@infowars) June 10, 2025
Meanwhile, Kimmel accused Trump of “creating the problem,” calling the president “mentally ill” and asserting that ICE agents were “abducting” peaceful residents. This appears to be language meant to inflame, not inform.
But here’s the inconvenient truth: Los Angeles is in crisis. And while the cause of that crisis can be debated, the existence of it cannot. Kimmel either doesn’t know or doesn’t care.
Final Thoughts
At best, Jimmy Kimmel appears to be deeply out of touch. At worst, he could be knowingly misleading millions of viewers. Either way, his claim that Los Angeles is just fine is demonstrably false.
Jimmy Kimmel reading tweets from President Trump at The Oscars – YouTube, New York Post
While his studio claps and laughs, the city burns.
How do you feel about Jimmy Kimmel and his comments on the LA Riots? Sound off in the comments and let us know!
The paid propagandist will say whatever’s necessary to keep the narrative going.
That’s what propagandists do. They’ll never bother to get the facts or make sure they actually know what they’re talking about. Enforcing and validating their own personal narrative is the only thing they care about.
These people always more concerned about the criminals than they are about the rest of us.
The theater this host, and the rest of his ilk, put on every night is more Pravda than anything else. A Funny Man who isn’t funny – and rarely was even when he was actively trying to be a comic rather than an activist – and is remarkably wrong on the facts isn’t any good to anyone.
That’s why they are kicking him off the air. He sucks as an entertainer. Maybe he can get 100 loony monkeys in his studio to clap and cheer when the pretty “Applause” sign lights up but he can’t get eyes on the TV because more people have more sense than to listen to him.
Anyone in his audience is already mentally twisted and divorced from reality.
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