«Aaron Rodgers is too arrogant to know how ignorant he is,» the ABC host jokes
Jimmy Kimmel kicked off his first “Jimmy Kimmel Live” of 2024 by laying into NY Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers over false comments the NFL star made about him last week.
Kimmel said that if Rodgers apologizes for falsely suggesting he’s pedophile, “I’ll accept his apology and move on.” But the ABC late night host said he doesn’t expect he’ll ever receive one. So in addition to a lot of jokes at Rodgers’ expense, Kimmel instead used the discussion as a plea for people who are conservative but don’t agree with the tactic of calling political opponents vile names to “re-think being a part of that group.”
But he have one nice thing to say about Rodgers, joking that he “has done the impossible. He made the New York Jets look even worse.”
For those who don’t remember, on Jan. 2 Rodgers appeared on Pat McAfee’s ESPN show — he’s a regular guest. The discussion to turned to the impending release of court documents that contain the unredacted names of people associated with billionaire sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. And during this discussion, Rodgers, while pledging to celebrate once they were out, implied that Kimmel would be one of the people outed as a participant in Epstein’s sex trafficking crimes.
This claim was based on hoax documents shared online prior to the release of the real thing, and in response Kimmel, who has never been connected to Epstein and whose name is not included in the documents, threatened to sue Rodgers. McAfee for his part issued a statement that barely qualifies as an apology in which he defended Rodgers as “just trying to talk s—.”
Rodgers has yet to comment publicly on the matter, which brings us to today.
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