Jimmy Kimmel offers Emmy award to Trump for ending ICE presence in Minneapolis

Jimmy Kimmel ridiculed Donald Trump's delight at receiving the prize from María Corina Machado, highlighting his long complaints about not winning
UPDATED JAN 16, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump's obsession with awards, offering his own Emmy if ICE left Minneapolis and were redeployed at the border (Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube)
Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump's obsession with awards, offering his own Emmy if ICE left Minneapolis and were redeployed at the border (Jimmy Kimmel Live/YouTube)


LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: In the latest episode of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’, host Jimmy Kimmel mocked the Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for giving her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump on Thursday, January 15.

During the segment, Kimmel offered to give his Emmy award to the president if he removed ICE agents from Minneapolis and redeployed them at the border. 

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TV personality Jimmy Kimmel speaks during The Celebration of Life for Kobe & Gianna Bryant at Staples Center on February 24, 2020, in Los Angeles, California (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump's meeting with María Corina Machado

During the latest episode of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’, the talk show host mentioned Machado’s recent visit to the White House after the capture of Nicolás Maduro.

He called the Venezuelan opposition leader the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize that Donald Trump had been “whining about not winning” for the past five weeks.

“Trump said Machado was coming to the White House to pay her regards to our country. Whether she made that payment in cash or check, we don’t know,” Kimmel said.

The talk show host further stated that after disappearing the Venezuelan president, Donald Trump refused to support Machado as the new leader of Venezuela because she didn’t give him her Nobel Prize.

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is seen on Capitol Hill following a meeting with lawmakers on January 15, 2026 in Washington, DC. Machado has called for Democratic Unitary Platform candidate Edmundo González, who is widely considered to be the winner of the 2024 election, to assume the presidency of Venezuela following the January 03, 2026 capture and arrest of Nicolas Maduro by the United States military. (Photo by Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)
Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is seen on Capitol Hill following a meeting with lawmakers on January 15, 2026, in Washington, DC (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

He further joked that Machado thought giving Trump her Nobel Peace Prize would tip the scales in her favor. 

As she told the reporters after her White House visit, Machado presented her Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump to thank him for his dedication to the Venezuelan people’s freedom. 

Kimmel mocked how happy the president was upon being presented with the award and said that he hadn’t even won it himself.

“Machado didn’t leave empty-handed. She was seen leaving the White House with a gift bag,” he added

Kimmel joked that Trump gave her a 'Make America Great Again' cup as a return gift. 

U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump announced that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, one of the largest manufacturers of semiconductor chips, plans to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing facilities in the United States. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 3, 2025 in Washington, DC (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Jimmy Kimmel offers multiple trophies to Trump to pull ICE out of Minneapolis

During the episode, Jimmy Kimmel said that he was willing to offer all the trophies that he had earned throughout his life if the president pulled the ICE agents from the streets of Minnesota and redeployed them back to the border “where they belonged.”

“Trump’s not letting go of this nonsense with Greenland and Denmark either,” Kimmel said as he chimed in on Trump’s plans to acquire Greenland after Venezuela.

He joked that Trump wanted to forcefully take Greenland by sending in tanks to seize control.

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