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Jimmy Kimmel on Mike Johnson's new award for Trump: 'You can almost feel his spine exiting his body' | Late-night TV roundup

Josh Johnson mocked a newspaper report about a diary entry Kennedy wrote in 2001.

Jimmy Kimmel on Mike Johnson's new award for Trump: 'You can almost feel his spine exiting his body' | Late-night TV roundup
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Mar 27, 2026
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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.

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Health and Human Services secretary discussed in connection with a newly reported diary entry

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President who received the award and whose statements about oil from Iran were mocked

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Speaker of the House who presented the America First award to Trump

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