ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel and Comedy Central’s Monday host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, tried to claim there was some sort of logical disconnect between the Trump administration’s response to the Minneapolis shooting involving Renee Good and ICE agent Jonathan Ross on one hand and its threats towards Iran as the regime shoots protestors on the other.
Before he got to Iran, Kimmel had a take so hot, it could’ve melted all the Minneapolis snow, “The head of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, she doubled down again, she said Renee Good was a domestic terrorist. This is what they want us to believe, they need to paint anyone who protests as violent and dangerous, even a mom in a Honda. They need Antifa to be real to call in the military and cancel elections and declare martial law.”
Moving on to Iran, Kimmel added, “Ironically, while the White House is trying to squash protests here, the Lie-atollah is said to be mulling over a military strike on Iran to support the protesters there. From atop his golden toilet, he posted, ‘Iran is looking at freedom perhaps like never before, the USA stands ready to help.’”
Kimmel then offered up his suggestion, “I have an idea: send all the guys from ICE out of Minneapolis to Iran. They can help.”
Over at The Daily Show, Stewart also saw double standards at play, “And the most confusing thing about his reason for intervening in Iran is his reason.”
Stewart then played a clip of CNN’s Pamela Brown recalling, “President Trump has warned of striking Iran if the regime kills protesters,” followed by another of Trump on Air Force One stating that, “There seem to be some people killed that aren't supposed to be killed.”
Earlier in the show, Stewart mocked Trump for reading aloud a note that Secretary of State Marco Rubio passed him during a meeting with oil executives on Venezuela and now called back to that moment, “We may have to bomb Iran to prevent Iran's government from shooting protestors. Look directly into camera with an expression of half bewilderment and despair. P.S. Jon, don't read this part.”
Kimmel’s hysteria about cancelled elections aside, there is a world of difference between an ICE agent with a history of being a victim of someone using their car as a weapon reacting in the heat of the moment to someone—intentionally or not—driving their car at him and a regime cracking down on its own people who have had enough of its authoritarianism and the economic imbecility that has resulted from an ideologically driven, anti-Semitic, and anti-American foreign policy.
Here are transcripts for the January 12 shows:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1/13/2026
12:12 AM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: The head of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, she doubled down again, she said Renee Good was a domestic terrorist. This is what they want us to believe, they need to paint anyone who protests as violent and dangerous, even a mom in a Honda. They need Antifa to be real to call in the military and cancel elections and declare martial law and ironically while the White House is trying to squash protests here, the Lie-atollah is said to be mulling over a military strike on Iran to support the protesters there.
From atop his golden toilet, he posted, “Iran is looking at freedom perhaps like never before, the USA stands ready to help.”
I have an idea: send all the guys from ICE out of Minneapolis to Iran. They can help.
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Comedy Central The Daily Show
1/13/2026
11:06 PM ET
JON STEWART: And the most confusing thing about his reason for intervening in Iran is his reason.
PAMELA BROWN: President Trump has warned of striking Iran if the regime kills protesters.
DONALD TRUMP: There seem to be some people killed that aren't supposed to be killed.
STEWART: We may have to bomb Iran to prevent Iran's government from shooting protestors. Look directly into camera with an expression of half bewilderment and despair. P.S. Jon, don't read this part.
