Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart Struggle to Make Sense of Donald Trump's UN Speech

President Donald Trump’s address to the United Nations General Assembly left Jimmy Kimmel and Jon Stewart reaching for jokes about dictators, simulated reality and a fictional Kazakh journalist.

Trump used his September 22 speech to threaten Iran, discuss concerns about artificial intelligence, and other issues. Kimmel characterized the address as a hostile performance on the global stage.

“What a speech this was,” Kimmel said on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. “He put the dip in diplomacy and the dick in tater this morning.”

“It was a rough, threatening, ugly ramble in front of the other leaders of the world,” he added.

Kimmel focused on Trump’s attempt to thank by name the countries that had supported his Gaza initiative.

The president twice pronounced Kazakhstan as “Kazakastan,” giving Kimmel an opening to invoke Borat, the fictional Kazakh caricature played by Sacha Baron Cohen.

“Thank you, President Borat,” Kimmel joked. “We appreciate it.”

On “The Weekly Show” podcast, Stewart summarized Trump’s central messages as: “I’m going to annihilate Iran” and “I know AI might be a problem; what if we just changed its name?”

During the speech, Trump asked whether he should “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and “drive them into h--- with no chance of survival and no hope of future greatness or generations.” The Iranian delegation walked out during the address.

Stewart appeared stunned by the language.

“For those of you who don’t know, our president Donald Trump just gave his typical barn-burner at the U.N.,” he said.

Stewart also examined Trump’s suggestion that artificial intelligence should be renamed “super intelligence.”

Days earlier, Trump had announced the creation of an “AI Force” overseen by a forthcoming “AI Czar,” creating what Stewart saw as an immediate branding conflict.

“I think he thinks the problem with AI is just a branding problem,” Stewart said. “My favorite part of his rebranding is, he’s gonna call it super intelligence, but he’s still using his AI Force.”

“I guess the AI Force will control the supreme intelligence,” he continued.

The contradictions ultimately pushed Stewart toward a cinematic explanation.

“We live in a f------- simulation,” he said. “We must! This can’t be real. I don’t know which pill you take to get out of this.”