Jimmy Kimmel lashes out at "lunatic" Trump fans for threatening his 3-year-old son over Mike Pence error

The Daily Beast

Kimmel apologized Friday for showing a video Thursday night that showed Vice President Pence carrying a box and saying, "Well, can I carry the empty ones? Just for the camera?" When Kimmel realized Pence was joking, he apologized on Twitter. "Bottom line is, I was wrong,” Kimmel admitted on Monday's show. “He was joking, I didn’t know.” When he learned that he’d “made a mistake,” he took the video down and issued his written apology. “But the outrage from the MAGA hats, the outpouring of venom, was disgusting,” he added. “Stupid too, but mostly disgusting.” Kimmel revealed that “some of these lunatics” have the “audacity” to call themselves Christians, “but that didn’t stop them from wishing death on me, on my family, on my son.” President Trump tweeted about Kimmel's mistake on Sunday, writing: "More Fake News, this time from Jimmy Kimmel’s last place show!," prompting Kimmel to respond: "Go make Melania brunch."