--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Had a Third Grader Explain Fake News to Trump description: Jimmy Kimmel had a third grader explain "fake news" to President Donald Trump following his tweet criticizing Stormy Daniels. canonical: https://time.com/5246643/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kid-fake-news/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-19T15:16:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:17.945Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Let a Third Grader Explain Fake News to Trump og:description: "I'm gonna explain fake news because it's not what you think it is" og:url: https://time.com/5246643/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kid-fake-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Let a Third Grader Explain Fake News to Trump twitter:description: "I'm gonna explain fake news because it's not what you think it is" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # President Trump Called Stormy Daniels 'Fake News.' So Jimmy Kimmel Got a Third Grader to Explain What 'Fake News' Actually Means by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 19, 2018 3:16 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Apr 19, 2018 3:16 PM UTC [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5242992/jimmy-kimmel-sean-hannity-michael-cohen-client/) is always keen to clap back at President Donald Trump’s tweets. But this time, he turned to an expert. A third grader. The late-night host called in the big guns on Wednesday’s [_Jimmy Kimmel Live!_](http://time.com/5109589/jimmy-kimmel-kids-on-trump/) after Trump’s tweet about a Stormy Daniels story. “A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)!” Trump tweeted Wednesday, quoting a Twitter user. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/986547093610299392) Kimmel wasn’t having it. So he let a kid named Noah be the President’s guide to recognizing fake news. The child unpacked it all “in a very simple way,” Kimmel noted as he introduced the children’s TV-style “Explain It to the President” special. “Hi Mr. President, today I’m gonna explain fake news because it’s not what you think it is,” Noah began, before delving into the dangers posed by intentionally fabricated news stories that spread on the wings of social media. He even worked in dig about the spread of phony stories in November 2016\. But in a kind way. See the full clip below: ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5246643/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kid-fake-news/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5246643/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kid-fake-news/"},"headline":"President Trump Called Stormy Daniels 'Fake News.' So Jimmy Kimmel Got a Third Grader to Explain What 'Fake News' Actually Means","datePublished":"2018-04-19T15:16:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:17.945Z","description":"\"I'm gonna explain fake news because it's not what you think it is\"","url":"https://time.com/5246643/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kid-fake-news/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Late Night Television","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5246643/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kid-fake-news/","name":"President Trump Called Stormy Daniels 'Fake News.' So Jimmy Kimmel Got a Third Grader to Explain What 'Fake News' Actually Means"}}]}] ```