Jimmy Kimmel on Mike Johnson's new award for Trump: 'You can almost feel his spine exiting his body' | Late-night TV roundup
Johnson presented Trump with the RNC’s inaugural America First award, an event Kimmel mocked.

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TAP FOR WHYThe Guardian is an established national news organization with a named institutional publisher and a track record of editorial reporting. This article is attributed to Guardian staff and presents the material as a roundup of remarks from television programs.
- Source type — An established national news publisher.
- Editorial standards — The Guardian operates an established editorial newsroom.
- Author attribution — A staff byline is given, though no individual reporter is named.
- Transparency — The roundup identifies the television programs and attributes remarks to their hosts.
The piece clearly attributes jokes and claims to the late-night hosts and identifies a newspaper report as the source for Kennedy’s diary account. It is a selective recap of comic commentary, however, with little independent verification, context, or response from the people being discussed.
HOW WE SCORE ↗The article is a roundup of critical late-night monologues and does not provide replies or countervailing perspectives from the people mocked. It attributes the remarks, but the selection is one-sided.
- Counterarguments presented — No responses or defenses from the political figures are included.
- Source diversity — The article relies on three late-night hosts’ critical commentary and one cited newspaper report.
- Loaded language — The strongest loaded phrasing is attributed to the comedians rather than presented as the reporter’s own judgment.
- Opinion vs reporting — It reports commentary, but the selection consists entirely of critical jokes.
The roundup selects and reproduces mocking commentary about Trump, Johnson, and Kennedy, without including favorable or defending perspectives. Its critical presentation is clear, though the criticisms are attributed to the comedians.
- Source selection — The selected hosts are all critical of the political figures discussed.
- Framing — The headline and opening frame the award through the hosts’ mockery.
The Guardian recaps late-night hosts mocking the RNC’s new award for Donald Trump, presented by House Speaker Mike Johnson, and joking about Trump’s account of oil shipments from Iran. It also recounts Josh Johnson’s jokes about a newly reported diary entry by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Jimmy Kimmel mocked the RNC’s inaugural “America First” award for Trump and criticized Johnson’s presentation of it. Seth Meyers joked about Trump’s statements concerning oil shipments from Iran and criticized the award amid the ongoing war.
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VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Johnson in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Johnson’s record.
People in this story
SWIPE →Speaker of the House who presented the America First award to Trump
President who received the award and whose statements about oil from Iran were mocked
Trump's version of this story ↗Health and Human Services secretary discussed in connection with a newly reported diary entry
Kennedy Jr.'s version of this story ↗Part of a bigger story
5 OUTLETSOutlets agree that Mike Johnson created an annual America First Award and presented its first to Donald Trump at a Republican fundraiser. Left-leaning outlets ridicule the award and frame it as Republican deference to Trump. Center outlets emphasize criticism of the gesture, including critics’ references to the government shutdown and federal employees waiting for paychecks.
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- The Mary Sue · Republicans announce a made-up award, and the first recipient is, no surprises here: Donald Trump
- Crooks and Liars · Mike Johnson Creates Puke-Inducing Award For Their Precious Boy
- The Guardian · US House speaker gives Trump so-called 'America First' award amid global chaos | Donald Trump
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