The host of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Reside! led the late-night assaults on the army response to the continued protests in Los Angeles over the Trump administration’s ICE raids final week that focused companies, parking tons and, sure, fruit stands.

Kimmel countered the political narrative of Los Angeles with stay footage outdoors his studio, and pictures of the overwhelming majority of town carrying on like regular — as a result of the protests have been principally concentrated in a small downtown space of the sprawling metropolis.

He began his monologue on Tuesday by noting that his Hollywood studio viewers was full, as normal, including that this element “is perhaps shocking for these of you in different components of the nation who’ve been watching cable information and consider this metropolis is a few form of totalitarian hellscape proper now.”

“It most actually is just not,” he added, displaying the stay footage of vacationers and locals strolling the peaceable streets, and even noting that the most recent Disney-Pixar film, Elio, was having its premiere. “Do not inform Trump,” he mentioned in regards to the movie, noting it is about aliens. “He’ll ship the Inexperienced Berets in, too.”

Over on The Day by day Present, host Desi Lydic additionally pushed again towards the narrative about Los Angeles, noting that “many of the protesters have include extra of a chill, SoCal vibe: dancing, enjoying music, and unleashing these devastating projectiles at police.”

Mentioned projectiles, as proven in dramatic video footage, had been bubbles. It’s value noting, as Stephen Colbert did on The Late Present, that some protestors threw actual projectiles at law enforcement officials throughout the protests.

However was what was occurring worthy of a Nationwide Guard and Marine presence? Within the case of the Nationwide Guard, that might be a call made on the governor’s desk, with Gavin Newsom saying he didn’t request their presence.

“The US invades the USA,” Lydic mentioned, earlier than dropping a principle. “I am starting to marvel if Trump is deliberately attempting to escalate this case,” she mused, “as a result of extra chaos permits him to painting blue states as facilities of crime, whereas positioning himself as a robust man that the corporate must rally round.”

After a beat, she shook her head, “No, that is foolish. I am certain he is simply doing what’s greatest for everybody.”

However Colbert identified Stephen Miller’s reported order to ICE brokers that they cease specializing in simply immigrants with prison information and go to locations like Residence Depot parking tons and 7-Elevens. In his drive for ICE to ramp up their arrest numbers, he instructed officers to “simply go on the market and arrest unlawful aliens,” in response to The Wall Road Journal.

“Following Stephen Miller’s orders, ICE went to Los Angeles and began simply rounding up individuals at workplaces, which in fact led to protests that the mayor described as ‘100 individuals. 27 individuals had been arrested,’” Colbert mentioned Tuesday evening.

These protests triggered a giant response from Trump, with Colbert quipping, “Properly, no shock there, Trump’s simply getting revenge on Tinseltown. He by no means gained an Emmy for The Apprentice and he was snubbed within the 1993 Oscars for his efficiency in Residence Alone 2.”

Kimmel admitted that he was “very offended” about the entire thing. “I knew it was going to be unhealthy. I didn’t understand it was going to be this unhealthy,” he mentioned.

“Individuals who have lived right here their complete lives, individuals who’ve been on this metropolis longer than I’ve, the overwhelming majority of whom have by no means finished something unsuitable, are being kidnapped, which is the proper phrase to make use of, by brokers in masks hiding their identities, grabbing individuals off the road and at work, sending individuals to detention facilities,” he continued.

The late-night host mentioned that as People are selecting to protest these actions — “which isn’t solely our proper as People, it is our duty” — Trump is responding with army pressure.

“He truly desires battle. He’s deliberately inflaming and mendacity to make it look like there is a conflict occurring right here,” Kimmel argued. “He desires there to be a conflict occurring right here and he would not care who will get harm in it.”

The late-night comedian went on to reiterate, “There is not any riot outdoors. Now we have extra so-called unrest right here when one among our groups wins a championship.”

“However that is not what you are seeing on TV. Somebody units a hearth in a rubbish can, 12 digicam crews go operating towards it,” he argued. “Trump desires it to appear like anarchy.”

He then marveled at this instant federal response, contemplating, “once we had the wildfires that devastated huge chunks of our metropolis, he did completely nothing. Now that we’re in the midst of a non-emergency, ship within the nationwide guard!”

“Placing out a hearth you purposely begin would not make you a firefighter, it makes you an arsonist with a hose, okay?”

Providing a primary abstract of the state of affairs, as he sees it, Kimmel mentioned, “Donald Trump created this downside. He is placing the police and army at risk. He is the one deporting kids and their dad and mom with none course of. He is the one who has ICE brokers outdoors immigration places of work arresting the individuals who confirmed as much as do the precise factor and test in with the immigration workplace.”

“This isn’t an issue we had, this can be a downside he made and is deliberately doing all the pieces he can to make it worse. He’s purposefully pitting People towards one another to create protest porn for [the media],” he continued.

He additionally accused Trump of orchestrating this disaster as a distraction. “Everybody was speaking about Trump on the Epstein record and preventing with Elon, so what did he do?” Kimmel requested. “He manufactured a disaster. He bought again to what bought him right here within the first place, good previous xenophobia.”

“We do not understand how that is going to finish, however not less than we all know it’ll be an enormous waste of cash,” mentioned Lydic over on The Day by day Present. “Uh, howdy, DOGE. I discovered some cuts for you? Can you place your mother on the cellphone. Youngsters, jeezus!”