Jimmy Kimmel joked that Donald Trump is like “Dracula” and will “never die” after rumors spread on social media over the weekend that the President had died.
Kimmel returned to Jimmy Kimmel Live! after his summer vacation on Tuesday night (September 2) and wasted no time diving into those rumors of Trump’s passing. Social media went wild this past weekend with speculation that the President had died after he hadn’t appeared in public for a few days. The rumors, of course, were false.
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