Jimmy Kimmel Floats Plan to Make Donald Trump a King

‘Pence is ready; he’s boring, he’s relatively sane — he looks like a neighbor you might borrow a lawnmower from’

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KIMMEL: "Well, now he does need to go. So it's time for especially you who voted for him --"
[ cheers and applause ]
KIMMEL: "-- To tell him to go. Please. Think about it. It makes it -- he doesn't even want to be president. He's miserable. But he won't resign because his ego is too big. He can't do it. So either we impeach him, which could happen but it might not, or we do what he would do in this situation. We negotiate. We make a deal. And I know this is going to sound nuts, but I have an idea. So hear me out on this. I think this could solve all our problems. We're all going to have to be on board with this. Instead of president we make Donald Trump king."
[ Laughter ]
KIMMEL: "Okay? We make him the first king of America. Think about it. England has a queen. She lives in a palace. Everyone makes a big deal when she shows up. She has no power at all. In the morning they put a crown on her head, she stands there and waves, she goes back to bed. That's. If the queen were to walk out on the balcony and open her shirt nothing over there would change. The queen could be completely bonkers, it would make no difference at all. She'd still be queen, it would still be fine. That's what we need to do with Donald Trump. We need to set him up in a castle, maybe in Florida. Lead him to the top. And then lock the door to that castle."
[ Cheers and applause ]
KIMMEL: "Forever. Everyone can call him your highness. Maybe we give him a scepter that he can hold. He can sit there watching "Fox & friends," maybe chip golf balls out of the window of his tower. There's no way he turns that deal into. If we tell him he's going to be the king. We've got to get creative here. Because enough is -- desperate times call for desperate measures. And I'm asking you, the people who supported Donald Trump, to step in and help for the good of this country. Mike Pence is ready. He's boring. He's relatively sane. He looks like a neighbor you might borrow a lawnmower from."

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