Each ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s The Every day Present returned on Monday after every week off to supply up some Olympic-sized hockey scorching takes. Kimmel would attempt to flip the gold-medal-winning ladies’s workforce into an emblem of the anti-Trump resistance, whereas Every day Present host Jon Stewart and this week’s Tuesday-Thursday host Desi Lydic used the chance to elucidate why Canada, which each the lads’s and ladies’s groups beat in extra time to win gold, is best than the U.S.
For his half, Kimmel launched a clip of the lads’s workforce speaking on the cellphone with Trump after the sport, “So, Trump dials into the locker room after the sport, Kash has acquired his cellphone to glom on to the glory and invite the lads’s workforce and, begrudgingly, gold medal-winning ladies’s workforce, who additionally received in extra time, to his State of the Union tomorrow.”
Jimmy Kimmel and his viewers applaud the ladies’s hockey workforce not with the ability to make it to the State of the Union, “What a humorous creep, huh? The ladies’s hockey workforce, by the best way, instantly refused his invitation. Actually. I imply, are you able to blame them? The final time Trump invited a… pic.twitter.com/0LnPLcIn4Y
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Over speakerphone, Trump declared, “We’ll do the White Home the subsequent day, we’ll simply have some enjoyable, we now have medals for you guys and we now have to, I have to let you know, we’ll should convey the ladies’s workforce, you do know that. If I don’t do this, I imagine I most likely can be impeached, okay?”
As Trump was speaking, the workforce was clearly excited in regards to the concept of sharing the highlight with the ladies’s workforce and understood the joke, however Kimmel, who purports to be an expert humorous particular person, was not amused, “What a humorous creep, huh?”
He then applauded the ladies’s workforce whereas making an attempt to decipher hidden meanings in Hockey USA’s official assertion:
The ladies’s hockey workforce, by the best way, instantly refused the invitation. Actually. I imply, are you able to blame them? The final time Trump invited a girl with a medal to the White Home, he made her give it to him. A spokesperson for USA Hockey wrote, ‘We’re sincerely grateful for the invitation prolonged to our gold medal-winning U.S. Ladies’s hockey workforce and deeply admire the popularity of their extraordinary achievement. Because of the timing and beforehand scheduled educational {and professional} commitments following the video games, the athletes are unable to take part. They have been honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment.’ Which is a pleasant approach of claiming, ‘Puck off, Trump!’ We have got higher issues to do.
In the meantime, The Every day Present sought to satirize what it thought-about to be overzealous chest-beating by sure conservative media personalities making an attempt to make political factors about liberals and Canada. On the identical time, Lydic would not-so subtly counsel that in the event you needed to truly evaluate the U.S. with Canada, then the latter can be higher.
Stewart performed the position of the straight man when he declared, “I simply do not know if our political methods are actually all that completely different from Canada’s.”
The Every day Present sought to mock what it thought-about overzealous conservative political reactions whereas implying Canada’s really higher. Desi Lydic claimed “Our democracy separates government energy from the legislature with a president appointed by an electoral school, whereas their… pic.twitter.com/RPnZt2H1bh
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Lydic sarcastically lamented the existence of the Electoral School, “What? Are you kidding me? Our democracy separates government energy from the legislature with a president appointed by an electoral school, whereas their democracy appoints an government based mostly on the end result of which governing social gathering has the bulk. And as we discovered on the ice yesterday, that system sucks!”
Truth-check: In each 2019 and 2021, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Get together received regardless of shedding what American liberals would discuss with as “the favored vote.”
After some extra caricaturizing from Lydic, Stewart claimed, “However the recreation did not change the truth that Canadians nonetheless have a greater well being care system than we do.”
Lydic returned to the sarcasm, “Sure. Okay, I assumed so, too, till I noticed the scoreboard! For-profit well being care: 1. Common Canadian well being care: 0. USA! USA!”
Ah sure, the Canadian well being care system. The system that offers its folks shortages, absurdly lengthy wait instances, and euthanasia.
Listed here are transcripts for the February 23 reveals:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Dwell!
2/23/2026
11:44 PM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: So, Trump dials into the locker room after the sport, Kash has acquired his cellphone to glom on to the glory and invite the lads’s workforce and, begrudgingly, gold medal-winning ladies’s workforce, who additionally received in extra time, to his State of the Union tomorrow.
DONALD TRUMP: We’ll do the White Home the subsequent day, we’ll simply have some enjoyable, we now have medals for you guys and we now have to, I have to let you know, we’ll should convey the ladies’s workforce, you do know that. If I don’t do this, I imagine I most likely can be impeached, okay?
KIMMEL: What a humorous creep, huh? The ladies’s hockey workforce, by the best way, instantly refused the invitation. Actually. I imply, are you able to blame them? The final time Trump invited a girl with a medal to the White Home, he made her give it to him. A spokesperson for USA Hockey wrote, “We’re sincerely grateful for the invitation prolonged to our gold medal-winning U.S. Ladies’s hockey workforce and deeply admire the popularity of their extraordinary achievement. Because of the timing and beforehand scheduled educational {and professional} commitments following the video games, the athletes are unable to take part. They have been honored to be included and are grateful for the acknowledgment.”
Which is a pleasant approach of claiming, “Puck off, Trump!” We have got higher issues to do.
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Comedy Central The Every day Present
2/23/2026
11:09 PM ET
JON STEWART: I simply do not know if our political methods are actually all that completely different from Canada’s.
DESI LYDIC: What? Are you kidding me? Our democracy separates government energy from the legislature with a president appointed by an electoral school, whereas their democracy appoints an government based mostly on the end result of which governing social gathering has the bulk. And as we discovered on the ice yesterday, that system sucks!
STEWART: The methods appear, really, fairly related. I imply, do not each the U.S. And Canada have bicameral legislatures?
LYDIC: Sure, however American senators are elected, whereas Canadian senators are appointed, identical to how Canada simply acquired appointed to our nuts, bitch!
STEWART: That sort of got here out of nowhere, Desi. Complete and filthy, Desi.
LYDIC: Aw, thanks! Here is one other: In America, we now have electoral districts. However in Canada, they name their districts ridings, which is becoming as a result of Staff Canada was driving our nuts, bitch!
STEWART: Jon: Please cease saying “Nuts.”
LYDIC: I can’t. I can’t. And by the best way, another excuse we’re higher: America’s congress has a sergeant at arms, however the Canadian parliament has an “Usher of the Black Rod,” and talking of ushering a black rod—
STEWART: No, no, Desi, no.
LYDIC: Yeah, I did not like the place that was going. Identical approach the Canadians did not like the place my nuts have been going, bitch!
STEWART: Okay, do not encourage her! The chilly climate has modified you! However the recreation did not change the truth that Canadians nonetheless have a greater well being care system than we do.
LYDIC: Sure. Okay, I assumed so, too, till I noticed the scoreboard! For-profit well being care: 1. Common Canadian well being care: 0. USA! USA!
STEWART: Desi, that wasn’t even the ultimate rating.
