Jimmy Kimmel is still making jokes at President Donald Trump’s expense.

On Friday, Sept. 26, the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host, 57, poked fun at the president’s recent visit to the United Nations headquarters on Tuesday, Sept. 23, where Trump encountered “a bad escalator and a bad teleprompter.”

Kimmel shared a photo on Instagram of his longtime sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez, 54, on an escalator with his luggage while waving at the camera. The caption read, “Headed to Brooklyn! Escalator is working great!”

Guillermo Rodriguez and Jimmy Kimmel arrive in brooklyn.Jimmy Kimmel Live/Instagram

During Trump’s visit, when he and the first lady, Melania Trump, stepped onto the escalator, it stopped suddenly, forcing them both to walk up the steps.

During his address, Trump, 79, slammed the organization for having a faulty escalator in its headquarters.

“All I got from the United Nations was an escalator that, on the way up, stopped right in the middle,” Trump said, again receiving laughter from the crowd. “If the first lady wasn’t in great shape, she would have fallen. But she’s in great shape. We’re both in good shape, we both stood.”

Kimmel’s escalator joke follows his Wednesday, Sept. 24, response to Trump’s reaction to the return of Jimmy Kimmel Live!

“You know, a lot of people watched our show last night,” Kimmel said in his monologue.

“I did hear from one very special friend, moments after we taped our show last night, the mad red hatter wrote, ‘I can’t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back,’” Kimmel said, reading directly from Trump’s Truth Social post. “You can’t believe they gave me my job back? I can’t believe they gave you your job back! We’re even.”

President Donald Trump on September 23, 2025 in New York City.Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty

The Instagram post also comes after his jokes about the president in his Thursday, Sept. 25, monologue. He offered a message of gratitude for Trump after the president previously celebrated Live! being temporarily pulled by Disney’s ABC just a week prior.

After the show was pulled by ABC on Wednesday, Sept. 17 following Kimmel’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s fatal shooting, and after the Walt Disney Company brought it back on Tuesday, Sept. 23, Kimmel’s return episode averaged 6.26 million viewers via traditional television (per preliminary Nielsen ratings).

The show’s audience was three times larger than that of an average episode, while the video of the monologue posted on the show’s official YouTube page has been viewed 22 million times as of Friday, Sept. 26.

“We had our second-highest rated show in almost 23 years on the air,” Kimmel said. “And I want to say, we couldn’t have done it without you, Mr. President. Thank you very much.”

Jimmy Kimmel on Sept. 25, 2025.Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube

Kimmel’s Thursday monologue also touched on his show’s return to Brooklyn next week, as he joked they were “on the move so the FCC can’t get us.” The late-night show will be airing from the Brooklyn Academy of Music from Monday, Sept. 29, through Friday, Oct. 3.

The return follows the six-day hiatus. The Kimmel suspension began on Sept. 15 when the longtime host, whose late-night show premiered in 2003, commented on the fatal shooting of Kirk during a monologue.

On Wednesday, Sept. 17, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Brendan Carr voiced frustration over Kimmel’s comments, and ABC temporarily pulled Kimmel from the air, while Sinclair and Nexstar preempted the show. Nexstar is the largest local broadcast and digital media company in the U.S., and Sinclair is the nation’s largest ABC affiliate group.

On Friday, Sept. 26, both companies announced that they would end preemptions and resume airing Jimmy Kimmel Live!.