Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel slammed the claim New York Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers made over him regarding the Jeffrey Epstein list, saying the football player caused “a lot of delusional” people to believe him.
Kimmel discussed his feud with Rodgers on his show on Monday, several days after their altercation started last week, in which the Jets player joked that Kimmel was hoping the list would not get released. The late-night host reiterated he had never met with Epstein and that Rodgers ought to make “very damaging” statements in court.
“When you hear a guy who won the Super Bowl and did all the StateFarm commercials say something like this, a lot of people believe it,” Kimmel said on Monday’s episode of his show. “A lot of delusional people honestly believe I am meeting up with Tom Hanks and Oprah at Shaky’s once a week to eat pizza and drink the blood of children.”
Kimmel stated it is more likely that Rodgers did not actually believe he was on Epstein’s list and rather was “mad” at Kimmel over jokes he made about Rodgers in the past. Among the jokes Kimmel made about Rodgers was the football player’s theory that the government was unveiling information on UFOs as a distraction from the Epstein list in 2023.
The late-night host also mocked the idea that “this hamster-brained man” knows what the government is planning simply because he is “doing research on YouTube and listening to podcasts.”
“And by the way, I’m not one of those people who thinks athletes and members of the sports media should stick to talking about sports,” Kimmel said. “I think Aaron Rodgers has the right to express any opinion he wants. But saying someone is a pedophile is not an opinion. Nor is it ‘trash talk,’ sorry, Pat McAfee.”
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When Rodgers made his joke about Kimmel and the Epstein list on Wednesday, the late-night host said on social media that the athlete had put Kimmel’s family at risk and that if any further jokes were made on the matter, he and Rodgers would “debate the facts further in court.”
On Monday, Rodgers said he would address the feud between him and Kimmel on The Pat McAfee Show, the same show he made the joke on, telling people to “tune in.”