On Wednesday night on Jimmy Kimmel Live show, Joe and Jimmy, two ordinary guys, sat down for a heart-to-heart, a heart-to-heart between two Americans from working-class beginnings who managed to create something of themselves.
Jimmy was Jimmy Kimmel, a late-night talk show host on ABC who was born in Brooklyn.
Joe was Joe Biden, the president of the United States, who was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and was “the reason we all got a cavity search tonight,” as Kimmel put it to his audience.
In what was Biden’s first visit on a late-night talk programme since becoming president last year, things became more serious after that introduction. He was in Los Angeles for a summit with leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Biden has been keen to travel and speak outside the Beltway, having become frustrated with Washington’s restrictions. Kimmel, with his unapologetically liberal politics, was a comfortable interlocutor for a president whose high-stakes misstatements have been difficult for the White House, to say the least.
“Look, this isn’t your father’s Republican Party,” Trump declared on Wednesday, repeating a statement that has recently become one of his favourites. “This is a MAGA party,” he declared, referring to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Jimmy Kimmel with President Joe Biden
On Wednesday, President Biden and Jimmy Kimmel taped an episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in Los Angeles.
The topic of gun control dominated the discussion. Only hours before, heartbreaking testimony from survivors and family members of those slain in recent mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas had captivated Washington.
What Biden Says Regarding Gun Violence ?
Biden has called on Congress to reinstate the assault weapons prohibition, which was in force from 1994 to 2004, as well as other measures, like as background checks, that would make purchasing and owning weapons more difficult. These initiatives are popular among Americans, but they have been fiercely opposed by many Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
The National Rifle Association “intimidated” Republicans, according to a relaxed-looking Biden. He also threatened to make gun regulation a “vote issue” in the upcoming congressional elections.
“Are you unable to issue an executive order?” Kimmel pondered the question aloud. “Trump distributed them like Halloween candy.”
Biden stated that acting alone would “emulate Trump’s violation of the Constitution.” In April, the president issued an executive order on so-called “ghost firearms,” but any major legislation — such as an assault weapons ban — would have to be approved by the Senate, where Democrats lack the numbers to break a Republican filibuster. Gun violence isn’t the only problem that Biden’s administration is dealing with.
