Jimmy Kimmel roasts Trump over his meeting with AI executives

September 30, 2026

A man in a suit stands on a talk show stage. The caption at the bottom reads,

Trump had a meeting with tech leaders recently, where he once again banged on about changing the name of artificial intelligence to "super intelligence" — with Jimmy Kimmel playing a clip of him saying "everybody likes it."

"Yes, I'm sure the guy whose company's name is OpenAI is very excited about this development," says Kimmel in the monologue above. "He's obsessed with changing the names of things. Ever since Don Jr. he's been in love with changing the names of things.

"The idea that our guardrails against AI are being erected by an 80-year-old man, it's like asking your grandpa to set up a WiFi router in your house. You just wouldn't do it."

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