Jimmy Kimmel tells UCLA women's basketball team to give Trump fake national championship trophy

UCLA's nationalist champion women's hoops squad was fixed an eyebrow-raising governmental quest by precocious nighttime speech amusement big Jimmy Kimmel.

During a radical interrogation connected "Jimmy Kimmel Live" connected Tuesday, a treatment with Lauren Betts, Kiki Rice, Gabriela Jaquez, Angela Dugalić and manager Cori Close turned political.

After Kimmel pointed retired that erstwhile President Barack Obama made a societal media station congratulating the squad connected their title win, the big asked if President Donald Trump had reached retired yet.

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The UCLA Bruins women's hoops squad is honored astatine halfway tribunal during a crippled betwixt the Lakers and Oklahoma Thunder astatine Crypto.com Arena successful Los Angeles connected April 7, 2026. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

The players answered "no" successful effect to Kimmel's Trump question.

But past Kimmel steered the speech deeper into an anti-Trump routine.

"I'm definite you cognize he's busy. Um he's successful 2 weeks you'll perceive from him," Kimmel said. "In the lawsuit that you bash get invited to the White House and you determine to spell to the White House, I person thing for you."

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Kimmel past pulled retired a metallic trophy that hardly resembled the NCAA title trophy that sat connected his desk.

"What I privation you to bash is bring this fake trophy we've made to the White House. He's not going to know. But erstwhile you bring a trophy, helium sometimes takes it and keeps it for himself. So, this is for you guys to instrumentality to the White House. And past you tin say, 'President Trump, we privation you to person this.' And he'll beryllium truthful happy. You'll astir apt get an endowment and you'll beryllium capable to support the existent one," Kimmel said.

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Head manager Cori Close of the UCLA Bruins watches during the archetypal 4th against the South Carolina Gamecocks successful the NCAA women's hoops nationalist title astatine Mortgage Matchup Center successful Phoenix, Ariz., connected April 5, 2026. (Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Close laughed astatine Kimmel's joke, portion the players lightly clapped their hands, exchanging airy laughs.

Meanwhile, societal media users criticized Kimmel for turning the sports interrogation into a Trump-focused rant.

"Even celebrating their title helium has to marque it astir himself and his hatred for Trump. What an a---hole," 1 X idiosyncratic wrote.

One X idiosyncratic mocked Kimmel, writing, "What volition helium bash erstwhile Trump is retired of office? Is the amusement cooked?"

Another X idiosyncratic wrote, "This is funny, but I dislike that helium utilized them to smite the frump."

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UCLA halfway Lauren Betts (51) reacts portion holding up the UCLA bracket sticker aft UCLA defeats Oklahoma State successful the 2nd circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tournament, Monday, March 23, 2026, successful Los Angeles. (Jessie Alcheh/AP)

UCLA won its archetypal women's hoops nationalist title successful programme past this past weekend, defeating the South Carolina Gamecocks, the squad led by Dawn Staley that had reached the nationalist rubric crippled 3 consecutive seasons and won it successful 2024, successful ascendant fashion, 79-51.

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