Jimmy Kimmel needed only six words to tell President Donald Trump where he thinks the president is headed after death, and it is not heaven.
The late-night host delivered the line during his monologue on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” on Monday, Nov. 9, 2026, after rolling clips from Trump’s “60 Minutes” interview with CBS News correspondent Ross Douthat, which aired Sunday, Nov. 8.
Douthat’s sit-down with the 80-year-old president ranged across immigration, gas prices and mortality before the correspondent turned the conversation to death itself and asked Trump what he believes happens when he dies. Trump first took the question as one about being forgotten and answered that he hopes he is missed. Douthat clarified that he was asking about the man, not the memory.
Trump asked whether the correspondent meant his destination, then offered his odds. “I’m a religious person, so in theory, I go to heaven,” Trump said. Pressed on whether he thinks he is going there, the president said he hopes so, adding that hell is not where he wants to end up.
Kimmel had a verdict ready. “Well, you are going to hell,” he told the president, and the studio audience erupted in cheers and applause.
A Devout Man Who Sells Bibles
The host acknowledged that it was a little odd to pass that kind of judgment, given the biblical warning against judging others, but said that in Trump’s case nobody was fooled: the president, he joked, would be living with the devil himself.
Then he twisted the knife, telling Trump he would open his eyes in hell and pray he was only watching “South Park.”
That last line was a nod to Season 27 of Comedy Central’s “South Park,” which has put Trump and Satan in an on-and-off romance. Kimmel also refused to let the president’s claim of religiosity pass, offering as evidence of Trump’s devotion the Bibles he sells.
The Line at Kirk’s Funeral
Douthat had spent part of the interview raising remarks that sit uneasily beside a hope of heaven. At the funeral of the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk, the president declared his hatred for his political opponents and said he wished them no success. Asked about it, Trump said the remark had been only partly a joke.
Douthat kept going, asking whether Trump could ever forgive his enemies, a cornerstone of Christianity. “Well, then I wouldn’t be real, would I?” Trump told Douthat.
A Peanut-Sized Brain and a Rap Battle
The afterlife was not the monologue’s only subject. Earlier in the same episode, Kimmel read aloud a written statement from White House spokesperson Davis Ingle, who said the comedian’s case of Trump Derangement Syndrome had rotted his “peanut-sized brain,” said audiences enjoy laughing at him rather than with him, and called his failing ratings his real talent.
He mock-saluted the wordplay and suggested its author take those rhymes to a rap battle. Being insulted by the administration’s younger staffers, he said, marked a kind of decline — the comic likened it to the sad day a house cat grows too fat to chase mice.
Then came the anatomy lesson. A full-grown human body cannot be run on a brain the size of a peanut, Kimmel argued, before airing a clip of Trump mispronouncing “human genome” during a speech at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Mar-a-Lago Golf or ‘The Shining’
Kimmel also looked ahead. With Democrats having taken control of the House and the Senate in the midterm elections held the week before the broadcast, the host predicted a wave of chaos from a president he called a drama queen, and said he doubts the country is ready for it.
He laid out two routes Trump could take with the rest of his time in office. The first, which Kimmel labeled the best-case scenario, has the president checking out entirely: no more meetings, steady trips to Mar-a-Lago, long days of golf and the occasional Super Bowl team to host.
The second is darker. In that version, Kimmel said, Trump unravels the way actor Jack Nicholson does in “The Shining,” determined that no one but him will ever live in the White House again. Nodding to the president’s ballroom renovations, the host joked that Trump might knock down whatever is left of the building.
“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” airs weeknights at 11:35/10:35c on ABC.
