Jimmy Kimmel placed a video file on his desk 4 minutes 11 seconds long.
He didn’t explain what it was.
He just pressed [music] play.
Americans are saying the exact same thing about you.
You should have warned them the virus was spreading like wildfire through the month of February instead of holding rallies with thousands of people warned that you and why did you not have social distancing until March 16th? Who you with? I’m Lee Ja Jen with CBS News.
If you look at what I did in terms of cutting off or banning China from coming in Chinese national, by the way, not Americans who are also nice and easy.
Just relax.
Can’t imagine what that is.
Let’s just get right to the stuff that people want to know about.
Uh, well, I’ve had a hell of a year.
I’ve had a good year.
I had a miserable year.
This year has been, as you know, sort of from reading the New York press, a good year for me.
And the politicians killed the real estate industry.
See, I don’t know what that means when you say the politicians killed the 198786 they passed a tax change which really you look at what happened with Olympia and York and Reichman and everybody else and it’s it’s big trouble.
I was never near broke.
I was having a good time and I I it was a good year to get a divorce.
I I I unloaded the wife.
Our president will start a war with Iran.
He has absolutely no ability to negotiate.
He’s weak and he’s ineffective.
The only way he figures that he’s going to get reelected, as sure as you’re sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.
I’m more militant and more militaristic than the president.
I believe in strength, but to start a war in order to get elected, believe that’s going to happen.
Trump’s voice, I don’t know.
Different clip.
Trump’s voice.
I don’t know yet.
Different clip.
Trump’s voice.
I don’t know.
We’ll see.
Three clips.
Same answer, different questions.
Kimmel stopped the video, looked at the camera.
That’s three.
Want to guess how many more there are? 44.
47 times in 18 months.
President Donald Trump, the biggest celebrity of all, made history, became the first sitting president to shut down a major United States city.
This was a bad idea to start with [applause] and went about as badly as it could possibly go for Trump.
Fans had to wait in line for hours to get past all the security the president required to attend the game.
But once he did finally show up, you voted for him, you can get to the back of the line.
You can see the fans here.
Yes, there you go.
That’s They made signs.
They had chance.
They even Say what you will about Donald Trump.
He has been great for the poster board industry.
Of course, the question on everyone’s mind was would the president get booed in the garden? They were smart.
They tried something clever.
They showed him on the jumbotron during the national anthem when it’s frowned upon.
And that strategy did not work at all.
He’s saluting for no reason.
They’re booing.
See, in his brain, he’s on stage at a Springsteen concert and they think he’s Bruce.
They’re saying Bruce.
Even the pigeons were telling him to stick it.
That was the loudest the president has been booed at a sporting event since Abe Lincoln flipped the coin at the Cotton Bowl.
It’s the good news.
He uh was eating throughout the game.
He had a slice of pizza with Howard Lutnik talking with his mouth open and then we got to watch him eat French fries, which is not something I ever witnessed before.
He had he ate that one and he went in for [music] Watch this.
I don’t know why I’m interested in this, but I am another one.
[laughter] And he’s like, “Oh, yeah.
Okay, the game’s on.
” And then with his big, beautiful belly full of cheese and potatoes.
It was nap time.
You can see there’s Malone.
We even brought our superstar today, Caroline.
Isn’t she great? Is Caroline great? So when she goes on television Fox, they dominate when she gets up there with that beautiful face and those lips that don’t stop like like a little machine gun.
What’s your When will you meet with um with Machado this week? Looking for something to grab here and I don’t seem to be in a very I think you did this to me.
You put me in a position where there’s absolutely nothing to grab.
So I’m looking for something to grab and it’s not going to be Caroline.
Ivanka Trump.
[music] We want to know a little bit more about you guys.
So, we play this game here.
It’s called faith.
You answer first and then dad, you answer also.
What’s the favorite thing you have in common with your father? Real estate or golf.
Donald with your daughter.
Well, I was going to say sex.
47 times.
Donald Trump, the sitting president of the United States in his second term, the man who has spent 40 years telling anyone who will listen that he knows more than anyone about everything, said three words to reporters.
I don’t know.
Not to trick questions, not to obscure policy details.
To direct questions about things a president is supposed to know.
Kimmel didn’t add commentary between clips.
He just let them play.
Chronological order.
Counter on screen.
Trump’s face.
Trump’s voice.
Same three words over and over.
Clip seven.
Reporter.
Mr.
President, do you support the bill your own party just passed? Trump.
I don’t know.
I haven’t looked at it yet.
Clip 12.
Reporter.
What’s your plan for lowering prescription drug costs? Trump.
I don’t know.
We’re looking at a lot of things.
Clip 19.
Reporter.
Did you discuss Ukraine aid in your call with President Silinski? Trump, I don’t know.
We talked about many things.
The audience laughed at first.
By clip 15, the laughter was uncomfortable.
By clip 25, the room went quiet because this wasn’t a montage of gaffs.
This was a pattern.
And the pattern said something nobody wanted to hear out loud.
President doesn’t know.
Clip 31.
Reporter.
What’s your administration’s position on the new healthcare proposal? Trump.
I don’t know what our position is yet.
Clip 38.
Reporter.
Have you read the intelligence briefing on Iran? Trump.
I don’t know.
I get a lot of briefings.
Clip 43.
Reporter.
Do you know how many nuclear warheads the United States currently has? Trump, I don’t know the exact number.
No nuclear warheads.
The president of the United States doesn’t know how many nuclear weapons his country controls.
Kimmel stopped the supercut at clip 45.
He didn’t make a joke.
He just asked a question.
If you don’t know, and you’re the president, who does? Because here’s the other pattern Kimmel showed.
Between 2016 and 2024, Trump publicly claimed to know more than experts on 62 different topics.
More than generals about ISIS, more than anyone about taxes, about trade, about construction, about technology, about the economy, 62 claims of superior knowledge, 47 admissions of not knowing, the super cut continued.
Clip 46.
Reporter: What’s your response to the new jobs report showing slower growth? Trump, I don’t know.
I haven’t seen the numbers.
Clip 47.
Reporter: Mr.
President, can you name one policy difference between your current plan and your 2016 plan? Trump, I don’t know off the top of my head.
There are many differences.
The video ended the counter on screen.
47.
The time stamp 18 months.
Kimmel sat in silence for 3 seconds.
Then he said the line that made the segment go viral.
The most dangerous words a president can say aren’t I was wrong.
They’re I don’t know when he’s supposed to.
If you value the count over the claim, the evidence over the performance.
Subscribe to the narrative brief.
We count what they hope you won’t notice.
The super cut aired on June 5th, 2026.
Within 6 hours, clips were circulating with the counter visible.
People started adding their own finds.
A Reddit thread documented 11 more I don’t know responses Kimmel’s team missed.
The count climbed to 58.
Trump posted on truth social the next morning.
Fake news.
Kimmel selectively editing to make me look bad.
I know more than anyone and everyone knows it.
Kimmel responded that night with one sentence.
We didn’t edit anything.
We just played what you said.
The comments are open.
And 47 is a count, not an opinion.
Here’s what the super cut revealed.
That a single clip never could.
Once is a deflection.
Twice is a dodge.
47 times is a confession that the person who claims to know everything has built a career on hoping no one counts how often he admits he doesn’t.
Trump built his image on certainty.
Believe me, trust me, nobody knows better than me.
But when reporters ask specific questions requiring specific knowledge, the certainty evaporates into three words.
I don’t know.
The supercut has been viewed over 14 million times across platforms.
News outlets fact check the clips.
All 47 confirmed as accurate, unedited responses from official press events.
We play the tape they forgot existed.
That is the whole job.
The patterns repeat.
We slow them down.
