Jimmy Kimmel Slaps an AI Diaper on Trump After His NBC Walk-Off, and the White House Is Not Amused

Just when you thought the relationship between Jimmy Kimmel and Donald Trump could not get any more, well, Kimmel-and-Trump, along comes a rain-soaked interview in a Wisconsin barn, a dramatic walk-off, and an AI-generated diaper.

Yes, you read that correctly. Let’s break down exactly what happened, why it happened, and why the White House is once again very unhappy with a late-night comedian.

The Interview That Ended With Trump Walking Off Set

It all started with what should have been a fairly standard sit-down. President Donald Trump sat down for an interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker for a taping of Meet the Press, recorded at a barn in Wisconsin where Trump was attending an event with farmers.

Rain hammering the metal roof caused repeated delays throughout the taping, which honestly already sounds like the setup for a sitcom episode.

The conversation covered a lot of ground before things fell apart, including tensions with Iran and a now-abandoned White House proposal known as the “anti-weaponization” fund, which had drawn opposition from Democrats and some Republicans over concerns it could benefit people prosecuted in connection with the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Then Welker steered things toward more familiar territory. She brought up Trump’s long-standing and unproven claims that the 2020 presidential election was manipulated, before the discussion shifted to California’s primary elections, where vote counting was still underway to determine which candidates would appear on the November midterm ballots.

Trump pointed to the four-day delay in calling results and declared, “They’re cheating on the election.”

This is where things really started to slide downhill. Welker pressed him directly, asking, “Do you have evidence to support that?” Trump responded, “All I have to do is look, and I listen.”

Part of what fueled this exchange was a real, specific race. Following the California primary elections, Republican candidate Spencer Pratt was knocked out of the Los Angeles mayoral race, and Spencer Pratt fell behind Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman after initially leading on election night, with the shift happening once mail ballots were processed. Trump went on multiple online and in-person rants claiming the election had been rigged.

Welker, doing her job, kept pushing for evidence. And that is when Trump’s patience apparently ran out entirely. “They’re crooked, just like you’re crooked, your press is crooked. And Meet the Press is crooked,” Trump said, before adding, “You’re either crooked or you’re stupid.”

Trump accused Welker and the press of being unfair after she pressed him on his claims that officials were mishandling California’s vote count, in a state where elections can take more than a month to be certified.

And then, just like that, it was over. “Let’s call it quits because I’ve had enough,” Trump said while removing his microphone and standing up to walk off the set. He added, “Thank you, darling. Have a good time,” on his way out. The whole exchange ultimately ended the session roughly 50 minutes in.

Then There Is Jimmy Kimmel, an AI Diaper, and a “Trumper Tantrum”

If there is one thing you can count on, it is that a moment like this is not going to slip past Jimmy Kimmel unnoticed.

During his Monday night monologue, Kimmel used his ABC late-night show to mock Trump with an edited “diaper” visual after the president ended his tense NBC interview with Welker.

Kimmel set up the bit by noting, “This interview, first of all, was interrupted several times by rain. And I don’t know if he was worried about the cotton candy on his head getting wet or he just didn’t like the fact that he was being taken to task by a woman.”

He then walked his audience through the breakdown of the interview itself, including the moment things truly went off the rails.

After noting that the president ended the interview following his accusations that NBC, ABC, CBS, and CNN were all “crooked,” Kimmel asked the crowd, “Can you imagine any other president in the history of any other place doing that?”

He summed up the entire exchange by saying, “Either way, their talk ended in a full-blown Trumper tantrum.”

Then came the visual gag that everyone is talking about. Kimmel rolled the clip of Trump standing up to leave the set, but the footage had been digitally altered with AI to depict the president wearing an adult-sized diaper as he walked off, drawing big laughs from the studio audience.

As the edited clip played, Kimmel added, “You know what? When that dinner bell rings, he’s gone.”

In the version Kimmel aired, Trump’s pants were edited off entirely, leaving him in a pair of white underwear as he stormed off set. Subtle, it was not.

But Kimmel did not stop with the interview. He also took aim at Trump’s attendance at Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden, criticizing the security disruptions tied to the president’s visit.

Kimmel even predicted Trump’s now-infamous sleeping moment ahead of the Knicks vs. Spurs game, while separately, video circulated showing Trump being loudly booed at the arena despite insisting he received a different reception.

And just to round things out, Kimmel took one more swing at the Los Angeles mayoral race that had set off the whole NBC meltdown in the first place, joking from Trump’s perspective.

“The Democrats rigged the election,” Kimmel said, mimicking the president’s logic. “And they rigged it by having Republicans take the lead at first.” It is the kind of joke that only really lands if you already know the backstory, but once you do, it is hard not to chuckle.

The White House Claps Back, Because of Course It Does

If you have been paying attention to this rivalry over the past year, you already know exactly what came next. The White House did not let the segment go unanswered.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle dismissed the entire bit, saying, “Nobody in their right mind cares what seriously unfunny Jimmy Kimmel thinks.” Short, blunt, and very on brand for how this back-and-forth has gone in the past.

This latest dust-up is also not happening in a vacuum. Kimmel and Trump have a long, complicated history that includes Kimmel’s show being temporarily suspended from the air after Trump publicly called for his firing following a monologue that referenced the death of Charlie Kirk.

Kimmel eventually returned to the air and issued an apology, but he has continued to speak out against what he sees as Trump’s attempts to influence and pressure major television networks.

So where does that leave things? Pretty much exactly where they have been for years. Trump gives late-night hosts plenty of material; the hosts use that material; the White House calls the hosts unfunny and irrelevant; and the cycle repeats itself the next time something newsworthy happens.

The only difference this time is that AI-generated diaper edits are apparently now part of the late-night toolkit, which feels like either a sign of where political comedy is headed or a sign that 2026 has officially run out of normal jokes.

Either way, between a rain-soaked barn interview, a dramatic mic drop, an AI diaper, and a White House clapback, this week’s chapter of the Trump-Kimmel saga had a little bit of everything. And if history is any indication, it almost certainly will not be the last one.