EXCERPT:
KIMMEL: “And the truth is, we don’t even know if it’s over. We had 100 mile-per-hour winds fueling this nightmare. As of tonight, the winds are back. I think I speak for all of us when I say it has been a sickening, shocking, awful experience. But it has also been, in a lot of ways, a beautiful experience, because once again, we see our fellow men and women coming together to support each other. People who lost their own homes were out volunteering in parking lots, helping others who lost theirs. And tonight, I don’t want to —
(Applause)
— get into all the vile and irresponsible and stupid things our future president and his gaggle of scumbags chose to say during our darkest and most terrifying hour. The fact that they chose to attack our firefighters, who apparently aren’t white enough to be out there risking their lives on our behalf, it’s disgusting but it’s not surprising. Instead, I want to focus on thanking those men and women —
(Cheering and Applause)
— because that’s all we should be doing. And we should never stop thanking them. That’s right.”