Late-night hosts mocked President Donald Trump after Democrats seized control of Congress in the midterms. Jimmy Fallon joked about a reverse Jan. 6, Jimmy Kimmel criticized Trump's ballot claim, and Seth Meyers cited about 30 Trump rallies before the vote.
Late-night hosts mocked President Donald Trump after Democrats seized control of Congress in the midterm elections. The 2026 midterms saw significant Democratic wins across the country, according to the article.
Fallon jokes about departing Republicans
Jimmy Fallon joked on The Tonight Show that so many Republicans would be leaving the Capitol that it would look like a reverse Jan. 6. He joked that departing Republican lawmakers would take part in a reverse January 6th.
Kimmel and Meyers target Trump's ballot comments
On the Wednesday night episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jimmy Kimmel criticized Trump for claiming he was not on the ballot and would have won in a landslide if he had been. According to Kimmel, Trump made the statement in a social media post.
On NBC's Late Night, Seth Meyers aired a compilation of times Trump insisted he was essentially on the ballot in the run-up to the midterms. Meyers said Trump did about 30 rallies in the month before the midterms and made the whole thing about himself.
