‘I like these better with Trump’: Jimmy Kimmel mocks ‘boring’ VP debate between Vance and Walz

While Jimmel Kimmel accepted that JD Vance and Tim Walz showed a “lot of respect” for one another on Tuesday night, his biggest takeaway from the vice presidential debate was far less complimentary: it was “very boring.”

The two candidates went head-to-head on the debate stage at the CBS News studio in New York City, where they were questioned about key election issues including abortion, climate change and the conflict in the Middle East.

Not long after the debate aired, Jimmy KimmelLive! hit screens with the late-night host offering a scathing critique on the night – going as far as to declare that he missed the drama Donald Trump brings to the stage.

“Walz and Vance, they stuck to the issues, they showed each other a lot of respect,” Kimmel said in his opening monologue.

“It was, uh, very boring…”

He continued: “I’ll be honest, I like these better with Trump, I really do.”

Tuesday night saw a marked difference in the mood from the presidential debate between Trump and Kamala Harris on September 10, with Vance and Walz largely cordial and even agreeing with each other on several key policy points.

“Both candidates were pretty darn polite to each other,” Kimmel said, before pulling up a montage of the two candidates declaring they “agree” with one another.

“Trump is not going to like that at all, you’re in trouble JD.”

The debate, however, wasn’t entirely without adversity with Walz admitting that he misspoke when he previously claimed he was in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.

Meanwhile, Vance failed to directly address whether Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden, leaving the Minnesota governor pointing out his “non-answer.”

Kimmel drew a comparison between the Ohio senator’s