Jimmy Kimmel took a breather on Thursday to braai his most despicable presidential offspring to welcome the current president’s son into his late-night program for a friendly, sympathetic and sometimes hilarious conversation.
Hunter Biden, who withstood the onslaught of attacks, threw his way before, during and after the 2020 election, and somehow managed to come out stronger, falling Jimmy Kimmel Live this week in person to promote his revealing new memoirs, Beautiful things.
“Do you know how Donald Trump always asked where Hunter was?” Ask Kimmel in his opening monologue. “Well, he’s built here in us. He was here the whole time, it seems. ‘
After introducing Biden as’ probably the most famous board member of a Ukrainian energy company of all time ‘, the host told him:’ After reading this book, I’m under the impression that you’re alive.
“Yes, it was a journey, but thank God I went through it,” Biden replied. When Kimmel joked that the book might have accidentally taught him how to find cracks and smoke, Biden added: ‘I hope that was not the message you got from the book. This is not a way to do it, but it’s a manual please. ‘
Kimmel explained that he, unlike the president’s son, had never smoked crack: ‘I feel like I understand it now. And I thought it was especially interesting when you wrote about it that the first time you use it, it’s something you pursue the rest of the time. It was never the first time. ”
Biden explained that he wanted to write his book to humanize ‘people suffering from addiction’. “But the story also serves to humanize itself, given the way Trump and other Republicans have turned him into a kind of evil caricature over the past few years. One of the Republicans was Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who remarked to Kimmel that he was closer to Joe Biden when they served together in the Senate.
“When you talk about Lindsey Graham attacking you on television, he’s considered a family friend, he was a friend of your father,” Kimmel said, “and how strange it is to see it happen, to see someone do it. . ”
“More than anything, it’s sad,” Biden said sighing, referring to his father’s fellow senators as ‘uncles,’ whether they were Republicans and Democrats. “Politics has become so toxic,” he added. ‘And I think the thing I hope my dad can bring back is his sincere desire to get out of the toxicity again. So I had deep respect for Senator Graham. And it’s just sad to see how he decided not only to attack me, but to approach politics. ”
Later, Kimmel asked Biden if it made him “crazy” to hear someone like Donald Trump Jr. says that the only reason he has been successful is because he is a ‘Biden’ and ‘because of his surname.’
“It’s very funny,” Biden agrees. “It softens it.”
But when he tried to brush it off by saying he was trying not to “spend too much time on it,” Kimmel applauded him, saying, “I do, I think about it all the time.”
Biden asked if he had Donald Trump jr. Still met, and Biden replied bizarrely, “Not that I know of,” and added, “but I’ve been to some tough places.”