--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Goes Off on Trump's Kavanaugh Tweet description: Jimmy Kimmel isn't letting viewers forget about Trump's role in the controversy surrounding Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. canonical: https://time.com/5406773/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kavanaugh-tweet/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-09-26T14:28:01.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-13T08:00:38.556Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Found the Scariest Part of Trump's Kavanaugh Tweet og:description: A typo gave the late-night host pause og:url: https://time.com/5406773/jimmy-kimmel-trump-kavanaugh-tweet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85784616be7ddee7/69893b2886f68e45ad6ea41b/screen-shot-2018-09-26-at-10-17-07-am.png?branch=production&width=1157&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1157 og:image:height: 651 og:image:alt: Jimmy-Kimmel-Trump-Kavanaugh-Tweet og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Found the Scariest Part of Trump's Kavanaugh Tweet twitter:description: A typo gave the late-night host pause twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt85784616be7ddee7/69893b2886f68e45ad6ea41b/screen-shot-2018-09-26-at-10-17-07-am.png?branch=production&width=1157&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Thinks He Found the Scariest Part of Trump's Kavanaugh Tweet > Sponsored content. 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Trump Calls Two Women's Accusations About Kavanaugh a Democratic 'Con Game'_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 26, 2018 2:28 PM UTC Trump Calls Two Women's Accusations About Kavanaugh a Democratic 'Con Game'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Sep 26, 2018 2:28 PM UTC As the [Senate hearing](http://time.com/5406478/brett-kavanaugh-senate-vote-date/) to vote on [Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court](http://time.com/5406020/brett-kavanaugh-christine-blasey-ford-senate-hearing/) draws closer, [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/5400584/jimmy-kimmel-emmys-couple/) isn’t letting viewers forget about President Donald Trump’s role in the controversy. During Tuesday’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_, the host zeroed in on a tweet that Trump posted on Monday night in which he claimed that the allegations against Kavanaugh were a political ploy orchestrated by the Democrats. “The Democrats are working hard to destroy a wonderful man, and a man who has the potential to be one of our greatest Supreme Court Justices ever, with an array of False Accusations the likes of which have never been seen before!” he wrote. > [](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1044418753671417860) However, in the original version of the tweet, Trump typed “Acquisitions” instead of “Accusations,” a mistake that gave Kimmel pause. “For me, the scariest part of that tweet is that it stayed up for 10 minutes before someone got in and corrected it,” he explained. “Trump could tweet, ‘Bring it on chubby rocket man.’ Kim Jong-Un could get most of the way through a launch sequence before anyone got in there to undo what he did. Basically, a hilarious typo just explained how we’re all going to die one of these days.” Watch the full clip below. ## Transcript [00:00] I saw judge Kavanaugh. Can you give us some [00:01] thoughts, sir? I think he's just a wonderful human [00:04] being. I mean, I think it's horrible what the Democrats [00:07] have done, it's a con. They're really con artists. They're [00:11] trying to convince and they don't believe it themselves, [00:16] okay? They know he's a high quality person, they don't [00:19] believe him. 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