The host then switched to politics, as five states held primaries on Tuesday – Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio and Arizona. Donald Trump and Joe Biden will be the nominees, “there’s no question about that,” said Kimmel. “The only question, really, is how much of this we can take.”

Especially as Trump continues to escalate his threatening rhetoric. Speaking on “swamp creature” Sebastian Gorka’s show, Trump claimed that any Jewish person voting for Democrats “hates their religion, they hate everything about Israel, and they should be ashamed of themselves”.

“That’s also the opening line of the speech he’ll be giving at his granddaughter’s bat mitzvah,” Kimmel quipped. “Do you think he even knows what ashamed is? I mean, he’s never experienced it.

“How much do you think he even knows about Israel?” Kimmel continued. “He probably thinks the capital of Israel is baba ghanoush. Trump thinks the Gaza Strip is a gentlemen’s club.”

Nikki Haley took another swing at Donald Trump over his legal woes Tuesday evening, after the New York Times reported that political committees aligned with the former president spent roughly $50 million to cover his legal bills last year.

“Another reason Donald Trump won’t debate me… His PAC spent 50 MILLION in campaign dollars on his legal fees,” Haley posted on X (formerly Twitter). “He can’t beat Joe Biden if he’s spending all his time and money on court cases and chaos.”

(Bloomberg) -- US consumer confidence increased in January to the highest level since the end of 2021 as Americans grew more upbeat about the economy and the job market amid more sanguine views about inflation.

The Conference Board’s gauge of sentiment increased to 114.8 from a revised 108 a month earlier, data published Tuesday showed. The January figure matched the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey.

A gauge of current conditions surged to the highest since March 2020. The measure of expectations rose to a six-month high. Consumers expected the inflation rate to average 5.2% in the next 12 months, the lowest level since March 2020.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre shook off a question Monday about a potential President Biden-Taylor Swift duet to boost the Democrat’s 2024 campaign — citing federal law to do so.

“Let me first say, I’ve got to be really mindful — I’m a federal employee,” Jean-Pierre laughingly told CNN’s John Berman in response to rumors the 81-year-old could make an appearance at one of the pop icon’s upcoming “Eras Tour” dates.

“As you know, there’s something called the Hatch Act, so I certainly can not speak to anything that is related to 2024 in the upcoming election,” Jean-Pierre added — notably not denying the whispers.

“Obviously, there are a lot of, in my shop, in the press office shop, there are a lot of Swifties, if you will, fans of Taylor Swift,” she went on. “I’m just going to leave it there. I’m not going to get into the president’s schedule at all from here, as it relates to the 2024 elections.”