ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel reacted to parts of President Trump’s Super Bowl interview with NBC’s Tom Llamas on his Thursday show with all of the subtlety one can expect from him, which is to say none at all. According to Kimmel, Trump’s declaration that nobody feels worse about the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti is akin to saying nobody felt worse for serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s victims than Gacy himself.
In one clip, Llamas mentioned Trump's comments that ICE had made mistakes in Minneapolis and asked him to elaborate. Trump responded by declaring, “Well, look, I'm not happy with the two incidents. It's not, you know, both of them. It's not one or the other. He was not an angel, and she was not an angel.”
Kimmel retorted, “And now they literally are angels, thanks. What is—he wasn't, she wasn't—first of all, you don't know anything about those people. How dare you weigh in on what they were and weren't. Keep your stupid thoughts in your diaper where they belong on this subject. A second thing, while we're identifying angels? Jeffrey Epstein was your best friend, so maybe leave angels out of the conversation. And then because that wasn't already disgusting enough, he made it worse.”
Reacting to Trump's interview with Tom Llamas, Jimmy Kimmel compares ICE to serial killer John Wayne Gacy, "A lot of people would think it would be the parents" that feel the worst about Renee Good and Alex Pretty "or the spouses or the children of the victims. But then, you… pic.twitter.com/QGxfxbNNWp
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While Kimmel may not want to think about Good not getting out of the car when asked or her wife urging her to “drive, baby, drive,” that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. Similarly, there is footage of Pretti engaging in destructive behavior, which could be relevant if agents recognized him 11 days later.
Instead, Kimmel played another clip. This time Llamas asked, “You mentioned Renee Good and Alex Pretti not being angels. Do you think any of that justified what happened to them, though?”
Trump replied, “No, I don't. It should have not happened. It was a very sad—to me, it was a very sad incident, two incidents and, you know, they mentioned the one now, they don't mention the other. Well, I think they were both sad. You know who feels worse about it than anybody? The people of ICE.”
That really set Kimmel off, “Right, right. A lot of people would think it would be the parents or the spouses or the children of the victims. But then, you know, there are a lot of people who don't have a brain that's shrunken down smaller than one of an Oompa-Loompa’s balls, so—it’s like when John Wayne Gacy told the cops when they found all the bodies in his basement, ‘Nobody's more tore up about this than me.’”
Moving right along, Kimmel introduced another clip, “But at the end of the day, Trump believes that ultimately what we have here is a simple failure to communicate.”
In this video, Trump declared, “Two people, it's bad, I hate it. I hate even talking about it. Two people out of tens of thousands. Okay? And you get bad publicity.”
Kimmel snarked, “That's the real tragedy. The impact on the publicity. You know, nobody ever talks about the tens of thousands of innocent people we don't murder at these protests. Trump said so many dumb and embarrassing things during the interview, he may have to sue himself for another $10 billion.”
Trump’s point is not outrageous. In Iran, regime forces there have killed thousands of people. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, a woman was shot in a split-second, vehicle-related incident involving an agent who had previously been badly wounded by a weaponized car. The second shooting involved a man with a gun. If ICE really was like Gacy, Minnesota would look more like Iran, but it doesn’t, and suggesting it is like Gacy, is an outrageous lie.
Here is transcript for the February 5 show:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2/5/2026
11:38 PM ET
TOM LLAMAS: After the shooting of Renee Good, you said ICE made some mistakes. What were the mistakes?
DONALD TRUMP: Well, look, I'm not happy with the two incidents. It's not, you know, both of them. It's not one or the other. He was not an angel, and she was not an angel.
JIMMY KIMMEL: And now they literally are angels, thanks. What is—he wasn't, she wasn't—first of all, you don't know anything about those people. How dare you weigh in on what they were and weren't. Keep your stupid thoughts in your diaper where they belong on this subject. A second thing, while we're identifying angels? Jeffrey Epstein was your best friend, so maybe leave angels out of the conversation. And then because that wasn't already disgusting enough, he made it worse.
LLAMAS: You mentioned Renee Good and Alex Pretti not being angels. Do you think any of that justified what happened to them, though?
TRUMP: No, I don't. It should have not happened. It was a very sad—to me, it was a very sad incident, two incidents and, you know, they mentioned the one now, they don't mention the other. Well, I think they were both sad. You know who feels worse about it than anybody? The people of ICE.
KIMMEL: Right, right. A lot of people would think it would be the parents or the spouses or the children of the victims. But then, you know, there are a lot of people who don't have a brain that's shrunken down smaller than one of an Oompa-Loompa’s balls, so—it’s like when John Wayne Gacy told the cops when they found all the bodies in his basement, “Nobody's more tore up about this than me.”
But at the end of the day, Trump believes that ultimately what we have here is a simple failure to communicate.
TRUMP: Two people, it's bad, I hate it. I hate even talking about it. Two people out of tens of thousands. Okay? And you get bad publicity.
KIMMEL: That's the real tragedy. The impact on the publicity. You know, nobody ever talks about the tens of thousands of innocent people we don't murder at these protests. Trump said so many dumb and embarrassing things during the interview, he may have to sue himself for another $10 billion, but the good news is, we only have three more years of this left.
