‘Very Stable’: Jimmy Kimmel Digs Up Trump’s Old Tweets About Time Magazine

Donald Trump has had “many ups and downs” with Time magazine over the years, Jimmy Kimmel pointed out on Thursday.

The comedian took a look at the president-elect’s past tweets about the publication on Thursday, after Trump was named Time’s “Person of the Year.”

In 2013, for example, Trump said the magazine will “soon be dead” and called its Time100 list of influential people “a joke.” He also said the magazine “looks really flimsy like a free handout at a parking lot!”

In 2015, he complained that Time had picked then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel over him, claiming she was “ruining Germany.”

A year later, after he won the 2016 election and became Time’s “Person of the Year,” he thanked the mag for the “great honor!”

Then, in 2017, he claimed he’d turned down an offer to “probably” receive the honor again, because he’d have to do an interview and photo shoot. “I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!” he tweeted on the platform now known as X.

And that brings us to the present day. Trump called it a “tremendous honor” as he rang the opening bell Thursday at the New York Stock Exchange after Time announced its news.

“He jammed his little finger on that bell like it was the Diet Coke button in the Oval Office,” Kimmel quipped. “That’s how long my son would ring a bell. He’s seven years old. Just a very stable, very, even, some say, stable genius of a man.”

Watch his monologue below.