Jimmy Kimmel gleefully roasts the empty seats at Trumps midterm convention

Trump held a midterm convention in Texas on Wednesday, and attendance levels were already looking a bit shaky based on the number of Republicans making excuses about why they wouldn't be able to go.

In the clip above, Jimmy Kimmel gleefully analyses the number of empty seats in the room, first playing a clip of Trump maintaining that the room was packed despite video footage to the contrary "Could there be a better metaphor for this presidency than him bragging about the size of his crowd to a bunch of empty seats? I don't think so.

When does the kid come out and inform the emperor that he has no clothes? That arena was as empty as a Waymo," Kimmel says.

"This is what happens in North Korea.

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