--- title: Kimmel Made Commemorative Plates for Ex-White House Staffers description: George Takei helped Jimmy Kimmel sell commemorative plates featuring the people Donald Trump has fired from the White House canonical: https://time.com/5199137/jimmy-kimmel-rex-tillerson-plates-george-takei/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-03-14T15:03:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:18.483Z og:title: Kimmel Has Commemorative Plates for Ex-White House Employees og:description: George Takei helped Kimmel sell commemorative plates of Trump's former staff og:url: https://time.com/5199137/jimmy-kimmel-rex-tillerson-plates-george-takei/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19422b75da48958f/69892ac1cf40a860f4c4ba3a/plates.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Plates og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kimmel Has Commemorative Plates for Ex-White House Employees twitter:description: George Takei helped Kimmel sell commemorative plates of Trump's former staff twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19422b75da48958f/69892ac1cf40a860f4c4ba3a/plates.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Immortalized Ex-White House Employees With the Sweetest Commemorative Plates ## Video: President Trump Removes Secretary of State Rex Tillerson [Watch (HLS stream): President Trump Removes Secretary of State Rex Tillerson](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tHPpzLKD.m3u8) (1:27)  _Published 2018-03-13. President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 14, 2018 3:03 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Mar 14, 2018 3:03 PM UTC President [Trump fired](http://time.com/5197365/rex-tillerson-fired-timeline/?iid=sr-link9) Secretary of State [Rex Tillerson](http://time.com/5198200/donald-trump-fired-rex-tillerson-analysis/?iid=sr-link3) on Tuesday and Jimmy Kimmel wasted no time on Tuesday night’s episode of _Jimmy Kimmel Live!_ getting to the news. “Trump told reporters he made this decision ‘by myself’. Right, like a 5-year-old — ‘I did it all by myself’. Of course you did it by yourself: There’s no one left at the White House anymore.” Kimmel then ran down the list of White House staffers who were either fired or quit in the last few weeks alone. “To recap, [Hope Hicks](http://time.com/5180300/hope-hicks-resigning-donald-trump/?iid=sr-link9) is out, [Gary Cohn](http://time.com/5197983/larry-kudlow-replace-gary-cohn-what-to-know/?iid=sr-link3) is out, Rex Tillerson is out — on top of all that, yesterday they fired Trump’s personal assistant, a guy named [John McEntee](http://time.com/5197484/trump-personal-assistant-john-mcentee-white-house/?iid=sr-link5). He’s been with Trump for the last three years, he was his body man, and the reports say he was fired because he was under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for serious financial crimes,” Kimmel explained. As the list ex-White House staffers grows, Kimmel noted that “just because they’re gone, it doesn’t mean they have to be forgotten.” Kimmel came up with a sweet way to keep them in his heart—and his living room—in the form of new Trump alum commemorative plates (and one pasta bowl). To help hawk the souvenirs, Kimmel enlisted [George Takei](http://time.com/5020386/george-takei-groping-accusations/?iid=sr-link2) to sell the goods info-mercial style. “Act now,” Takei said. “Like a Trump adviser, this offer won’t be around for long.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5199137/jimmy-kimmel-rex-tillerson-plates-george-takei/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5199137/jimmy-kimmel-rex-tillerson-plates-george-takei/"},"headline":"Jimmy Kimmel Immortalized Ex-White House Employees With the Sweetest Commemorative Plates","datePublished":"2018-03-14T15:03:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:47:18.483Z","description":"George Takei helped Kimmel sell commemorative plates featuring the people Donald Trump has fired from the White House","url":"https://time.com/5199137/jimmy-kimmel-rex-tillerson-plates-george-takei/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Jimmy Kimmel","jimmy kimmel live","Late Night Television","George Takei"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19422b75da48958f/69892ac1cf40a860f4c4ba3a/plates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt19422b75da48958f/69892ac1cf40a860f4c4ba3a/plates.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Plates","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/5199137/jimmy-kimmel-rex-tillerson-plates-george-takei/","name":"Jimmy Kimmel Immortalized Ex-White House Employees With the Sweetest Commemorative Plates"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"President Trump Removes Secretary of State Rex Tillerson","description":"President Donald Trump has fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and will replace him with CIA Director Mike Pompeo","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/tHPpzLKD/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-03-13T14:29:13.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/tHPpzLKD.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/5199137/jimmy-kimmel-rex-tillerson-plates-george-takei/","duration":"PT1M27S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/5199137/jimmy-kimmel-rex-tillerson-plates-george-takei/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```