MIKEY SMITH: 11 unhinged Donald Trump moments as Jimmy Kimmel makes emotional return to TV

A visibly emotional Jimmy Kimmel returned to the airwaves last night, with an oldie. "As I was saying before I was interrupted..." he said, following a lengthy standing ovation from his studio audience.

He then went straight into a joke about Donald Trump. "I'm not sure who had a weirder 24 hours," he said. "Me, or the CEO of Tylenol."

He went on to pay tribute to those who supported him during his suspension, to Charlie Kirk and his wife Erika, and go some way to explaining the remarks that saw him get yanked from the air. He also said the move to have him fired was anti-American - a label he seemed happy to apply to both FCC Chair Brendan Carr and the President himself.

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Meanwhile, Donald Trump gave probably the most unhinged speech of his life. Not an exaggeration. Here's all that and more wild things that happened in Trump world overnight.

1. Kimmel breaks down as he explains the joke that got him suspended

Jimmy Kimmel was visibly emotional as he made a fist of explaining the comments that saw him taken off the air.

"You understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man," he said. "I don't see anything funny about it. I sent a message on instagram sending love to his family asking for compassion, and I meant it. I still do.

"Nor was it my attention to blame any specific group for the actions of what it was, obviously, a deeply disturbed individual. That was really the opposite of the point that I was trying to make. I understand that to something that felt either ill timed or unclear, or maybe both."

He then spent a good amount of time laying into FCC chair Brendan Carr, and Trump. The gist of which was: "A government threat to silence a comedian the President doesn't like is anti-American."

He added: "This show is not important. What is important is that we get to live in a country that allows us to have a show like this."

2. Trump says he's going to sue ABC.

A few minutes before Kimmel went back on air, Trump threatened to sue ABC on Truth Social.

"I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back," he wrote. "The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his "talent" was never there.

"Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who's not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution."

He added: "I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad ratings."

But as Kimmel said on tonight's show...he's got ratings tonight.

3. Escalatorgate

Trump repeatedly lashed out during his UN speech because when he arrived at the Headquarters and headed for the escalator, it abruptly stopped once he and the First Lady got on.

Oh yeah, and the teleprompter didn't work for the beginning of the speech either. Both glitches were pretty funny, and his initial responses were also pretty funny if we're honest. But then he went on about them during the speech, returning to the complaint several times.

Then Karoline Leavitt got involved. Citing a Times story where it was reported UN staff had joked about cutting the power on the escalator to make a point about Trump slashing UN funding, she tweeted: "If someone at the UN intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately."

This led to a lot of Maga folk getting very upset on Twitter, suggesting the breakdown was a massive security failure that left the President exposed and unsafe.

Awkwardly, Stephane Dujarric, the U.N. spokesperson, said the escalator's abrupt stop happened after a videographer who accompanied the US delegation may have inadvertently triggered a built-in safety mechanism.

And the prompter? A UN official said the White House was operating the teleprompter for the president.

4. Trump lied about his poll numbers

It's pretty weird for a world leader to wang on about his poll numbers during a speech to the UN general assembly. It's even weirder to lie about them.

"I was very proud to see this morning I have the highest poll numbers I've ever had."

Trump's average approval rating is currently in the low 40s. That's down from a healthy 50+ when he was first inaugurated. He remains the least popular President of all time at the point in his presidency.

5. He told UN delegates their countries are "going to hell"

During his lengthy and tone-deaf attacks on immigration, Trump told delegates: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

6. He re-ignited his feud with Sadiq Khan

He took aim at London Mayor Sadiq Khan, with whom he has a long-running feud - and brought to an end the post state visit honeymoon.

He said: "I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it's been changed, it's been so changed. Now they want to go to sharia law. But you are in a different country, you can't do that."

A spokesperson for Sir Sadiq said: “We are not going to dignify his appalling and bigoted comments with a response. London is the greatest city in the world, safer than major US cities, and we’re delighted to welcome the record number of US citizens moving here.”

Spicy.

7. No Nobel

Trump again complained that the "seven wars" he's ended qualify him for the Nobel Peace prize. But now that it's becoming increasingly clear that he won't be getting one, he said his real reason for spreading peace throughout the world was to "save lives".

OK. Sure. But then he had a pop at the United Nations, complaining that he hadn't had a single call when he was ending all these wars, offering to help him stick the landing.

And that wasn't the only weird swipe he took at the organisation while speaking at its Headquarters.

8. Trump lays into the UN

Trump complained that he likes the UN, but that it doesn't "live up to its promise".

He also suggested that it operates in a corrupt manner. Why? Because they rejected an overture from him in 2001, when he wanted to be given the job of refurbishing the building.

"Many years ago a very successful real estate developer in New York known as Donald J Trump, I bid on the refurbishment of this very building," he said. "I'm going to give you marble floors, they’re going to give you terrazzo. I’m going to give you the best of everything, you’re going to have mahogany walls. They’re going to give you plastic"

He went on: "They spent between $2 and $4 billion and didn't even get the marble floors I was promising. Looking at the building and getting stuck on the escalator...they still haven't finished the job."

He claimed the bidding process was "corrupt”, adding: "Unfortunately many things in the United Nations are happening just like that but on a much bigger scale. It's sad to see."

9. He declared climate change a "hoax"

Mr Trump also used the speech to urge Keir Starmer to open more oil fields in the North Sea, as he declared global warming a "hoax."

"Drill baby drill," he declared from the stage, before telling delegates and observers that the Paris Climate Accord, to which almost all of them are signatories, was "fake."

He said : "All green is all bankrupt. It's not politically correct, I'll get criticised for saying it."

"What a tremendous asset for the United Kingdom," he said of the North Sea. "I hope the Prime Minister is listening."

He went on: "The North Sea, I know the North Sea so well. They essentially closed it by making it so highly taxed that no oil company can go there. And he repeatedly attacked one of his longest-running bugbears - wind energy.

Mr Trump has campaigned about wind farms for decades, since a well-publicised row with the Scottish government over windmills planned for near to one of his golf courses.

"I want to see them stopping ruining that great English countryside with wind farms," he said. "We're not doing that in America."

Speaking at the UN General Assembly in New York, he told delegates: "We're getting out of the falsely named renewables. They're a joke. The wind doesn't blow, the windmills they're pathetic."

10. He also had a pop at leaders who recognised Palestinian Statehood

Trump also tore into UN delegates - including the UK - who recognised Palestinian Statehood at a special meeting on Monday evening. "The rewards would be too great for Hamas atrocities," he said. "The reward would be too great for these terrible tragedies."

"Instead of giving in to [Hamas'] ransom demands, we should have one message: release the hostages now,” he added, prompting his first and only applause from delegates.

He added: "We have to stop the war in Gaza immediately, we've got to get it done."

11. His motorcade prevented Macron crossing a road, with hilarious consequences

In the most delightful moment of an otherwise pretty dour UNGA, video emerged last night of Emmanuel Macron explaining who he was to a New York Cop, who looked incredibly embarrassed as he explained that the French President wasn't allowed to cross the road, because Donald Trump's motorcade was about to come through.

If you haven't already, just watch it, it's heartwarming.