ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel resorted to what one can only hope was reverse psychology to dissuade Iran from striking the West Coast because if it wasn’t, then the only other explanation for his Wednesday monologue is that he really believes, “Donald Trump wants you to bomb us. For him that would be a win-win. He might even bomb us himself and blame it on you, okay?”
Kimmel began by declaring, “The mood around the Oscars is a little bit tense this year. You know, they beefed up security after the FBI warned law enforcement here in California that Iran is aspiring to launch a drone strike on the West Coast, which is where we all are right now, so that’s—isn’t this how Iron Man 3 started, the movie?”
Jimmy Kimmel does some weird reverse psychology thing about the idea that Iran wants to drone strike the West Coast or at least you hope it is reverse psychology because otherwise it was pretty nasty, “The mood around the Oscars is a little bit tense this year. You know, they… pic.twitter.com/padkjWik6x
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He continued, “We can’t handle a drone strike. We barely survived the writers’ strike here, okay? And I hope these Iranians realize Donald Trump wants you to bomb us. For him that would be a win-win. He might even bomb us himself and blame it on you, okay? Just keep that in mind.”
Even if Kimmel was trying to do reverse psychology, the idea that Trump would want to bomb Hollywood is, of course, ridiculous. As Kimmel himself noted, the FBI has been in touch with California.
As for other Jimmy Kimmel Live! news, there was, not surprisingly, no correction about the previous day’s wildly misleading monologue about Secretary Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon spending millions of dollars on fancy food.
Here is a transcript for the March 11 show:
ABC Jimmy Kimmel Live!
3/11/2026
11:37 PM ET
JIMMY KIMMEL: The mood around the Oscars is a little bit tense this year. You know, they beefed up security after the FBI warned law enforcement here in California that Iran is aspiring to launch a drone strike on the West Coast, which is where we all are right now, so that’s—isn’t this how Iron Man 3 started, the movie? We can’t handle a drone strike. We barely survived the writers’ strike here, okay? And I hope these Iranians realize Donald Trump wants you to bomb us. For him that would be a win-win. He might even bomb us himself and blame it on you, okay? Just keep that in mind.
