Jimmy Kimmel Slams Dodgers' Visit to Trump’s White House
So, here’s something that got a lot of people — and late-night host Jimmy Kimmel — scratching their heads this week. The Los Angeles Dodgers, fresh off their 2024 World Series win, made a visit to the White House. But not just any White House visit — they met with former President Donald Trump, who hosted the team in a ceremony that had more than a few folks raising eyebrows.
Kimmel didn't hold back. On his Monday night monologue, he took aim at the whole situation. “This is disappointing,” he said, clearly let down. “Our World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers met the draft-dodger-in-chief at the White House.” And if that wasn’t sharp enough, he added a pointed reminder: this is the same franchise that broke racial barriers by signing Jackie Robinson — a figure Trump’s administration had once tried to literally erase from government websites.
Kimmel referenced a disturbing moment during Trump’s previous term when mentions of Jackie Robinson, Navajo Code Talkers, and Ira Hayes were scrubbed from Department of Defense pages in an apparent anti-diversity purge. Though those pages were eventually restored, the attempt didn’t go unnoticed — and Kimmel wasn’t about to let it slide now.
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But it wasn’t just about historical erasure. Kimmel also brought up Trump’s petty response to the devastating fires in L.A. earlier this year. He reminded his audience that Trump delayed federal disaster aid and even bizarrely blamed fish conservation efforts for dry hydrants — as if that was somehow the real problem.
“So why,” Kimmel wondered aloud, “would the Dodgers have anything to do with Trump?”
He also pointed out the irony of Mookie Betts attending this ceremony. Betts famously skipped the White House visit when he was with the Red Sox in 2018. This time around, though, he went — and in a recent interview, he said he regretted not going before and claimed it wasn’t political. He said it was just about honoring what the team had achieved. Still, many fans weren’t buying that explanation, especially in the comments of his Instagram post. One said, “This admin tried to erase Jackie from history and you shake his hand?” Another asked, “Did he call you a DEI hire?”
And if all that wasn’t enough, Kimmel capped the night by joking about the economy’s nosedive. “We’re gonna party like it’s 1929,” he said, referencing the market crash, before fellow hosts chimed in too. Seth Meyers compared Trump’s economic metaphors to a botched surgery by an unlicensed doctor. Jon Stewart simply joked, “Hey Mom, look — no economy!”
In classic Kimmel fashion, he blended humor and critique to call out the strange optics of a team rooted in progress and history cozying up to a president known for rewriting both.
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