Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump after Harris' showdown in debate over memes with fake cats: “The stupidest Republican lie yet”

Jimmy Kimmel compared Kamala Harris' performance in the presidential debate against Donald Trump to “the Lion King when Simba came back to avenge Mufasa.”

The comedian fired off the oneliner on Jimmy Kimmel Live Immediately following Tuesday night's debate, he also mocked Trump for posting “crazy” artificial intelligence-generated cat memes and repeating the wild hoax that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating people's pets.

“So much insanity is coming out of this Republican campaign,” Kimmel said. “On debate day, he's posting cat memes. Do you think he even knows that this is artificial intelligence?”

“These memes are part of perhaps the dumbest lie the Republicans have told yet,” he added, referring to the rumor about Haitians spread by Trump's running mate JD Vance.

“His superiors asked him not to mention that Haitians eat pets,” Kimmel said.

“So what is he doing?” he asked before playing the clip to laughter from his audience.

Earlier, on the day of the debate, Trump posted a series of cat-related AI images on Truth Social, including one showing a cat wearing a MAGA baseball cap and holding a gun and another showing the former president on a plane surrounded by cats and ducks.

Kimmel also shared an AI image of a Trump fan running away from two black men with a cat under each arm.

“I can imagine Trump grabbing two dicks at once… I just can't imagine him running for office,” the host joked.

Donald Trump Jr. also shared a bizarre AI image of his father on the back of a giant cat with a gun in his hand, with the caption: “Save our pets!!!!”

On his late-night show, Kimmel also referred to reports that Trump's advisers were worried about whether “happy Trump” or “angry Trump” would show up on debate night, hoping he would keep his cool when Harris inevitably tried to rattle him.

“Trump's advisers urged him before the debate to be a 'happy Trump' instead of a 'mean tyrant Trump' and to please focus on the issues,” Kimmel said.

“Of course he didn’t listen at all.”

On Tuesday eveningThe daily show, Late-night host Jon Stewart also praised Harris for her performance during the debate, concluding that she “destroyed the stuff” with her refutation of Trump's false abortion claims.

The Vice President was responding to Trump’s claim that he had taken responsibility for the Supreme Court’s decision, Roe v. Wade and claimed that “all Americans” wanted abortion rights to be decided by individual states.

“You're saying that's what people wanted,” Harris said. “Pregnant women … are denied emergency room treatment because their doctors are afraid they're going to go to jail, and she bleeds to death in a car in the parking lot? That's not what she wanted.”

Stewart also joked that Harris “attacked what [Trump’s] the most valuable member of the family – the crowds at his rallies.”

The former president lost his composure and reacted angrily when Harris noted that people were leaving his rallies early due to “exhaustion and boredom.”