Jimmy Kimmel grills Trump on 'weapons of mass distraction' tactic with war in Iran

Jimmy Kimmel has blasted Donald Trump's war in Iran as a distraction tactic from the release of Jeffrey Epstein's files.

The talk show host played a clip of Trump denouncing the decision of then-President Barack Obama to go to war with Iran, and contrasted this quote with the current actions of the 47th President of the United States. Trump said in 2011, "Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate, he's weak, and he's ineffective."

Kimmel dubbed this "another prediction he [Trump] got right." The talk show host went on to suggest that Trump is using the Iran war as a distraction from his name appearing in the Epstein files.

He said, "When your best friend was a pedophile, and you're losing bigly in the swing states with an election coming up, what do you do? I tell you what you do. You fire the weapons of mass distraction."

Another clip from Trump, this time from 2012, heard the business magnate claim a war in Iran would be "good for Obama politically."

Kimmel responded to this clip, adding, "And since Obama didn't do it, Trump said, 'Well, why not? I'll do it.'" A screenshot of a Trump post from 2012 accused Obama of launching strikes as he was "desperate" to hold onto political power.

Kimmel added, "At least we know why he [Trump] did it. Only one in four Americans, by the way, believes the US made enough of an effort at diplomacy with Iran before using military force. That includes many from his MAGA base who feel Trump violated his promise to keep us out of foreign entanglements and regime change."

The talk show host also took a jab at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, saying, "In times like these, I for one am grateful that the lives of the men and women in our military are in the experienced, capable, totally not at all shaky hands, of the former weekend co-host of Fox and Friends."