Kimmel Mocks Trump After Democratic Gains and Martha Stewart Over Halloween Costume

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel used his show on Tuesday's election night to mock President Donald Trump over Democratic gains in the midterms, a day after ridiculing Martha Stewart's Halloween costume. Fox News reported that Democrats swept the House and Senate. Kimmel joked that he would not want to be the DoorDash driver delivering Trump's Papa Johns that night. He also teased pollsters named Nate and a Harvard election model that put Republican odds of keeping the House at about the chance of rolling a 20 on a 20-sided die. Asked for comment by Fox News Digital, the White House called Kimmel a loser.

On Monday, Kimmel said Stewart had dressed as a homeless person, showing her since-deleted photo with a cardboard sign and dirt on her face. He joked that it showed how bad Trump's economy was and that her assistant must hate her. Stewart told Page Six the costume was meant to raise awareness of homelessness, then apologized. TMZ reported that she later changed her story and blamed "Today" host Craig Melvin.

The right-leaning outlets, Fox News and Page Six, both focus on Kimmel's attacks. Fox frames him as reveling in a blue wave and adds the White House insult and a headline about Democrats vowing retribution. Page Six leads with him skewering Stewart and gives space to her homelessness statement and his line about Trump's economy. The left-leaning New York Times, in the excerpt provided, leads with the Papa Johns joke and describes Kimmel riding a "blue tsunami", with no White House response or Stewart material. All three center Kimmel's jokes about Trump and the election. TMZ takes a separate angle, centered on Stewart's shifting explanation and Melvin rather than on Kimmel.