Jimmy Kimmel mocks Trump for likening himself to Mother Teresa as jury deliberates on former president’s fate

Jimmy Kimmel agreed with Donald Trump’s wild claims that Mother Teresa herself would also not be able to beat the allegations faced by the former president – paying off a pornstar “after a round of golf”.

On the latest episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, broadcast hours after the historic criminal hush money trial was turned over to the jury, the late show host discussed the explosive final days of the trial, including the absence of former First Lady Melania Trump and the appearance of Hollywood star Robert De Niro.

Deliberations began late on Wednesday morning and — after four questions from jurors regarding specific testimony — will continue on Thursday at 9.30am. Moments after they began the former president called the whole trial “rigged” and suggested that even Mother Teresa wouldn’t be able to escape a conviction.

“These charges are rigged. The whole thing is rigged,” he told reporters in a hallway outside the 15th-floor courtroom in Manhattan on Wednesday.

“And we have a trial like this where the judge is so conflicted he can’t breathe,” he said. ‘He’s got to do his job. It’s a disgrace. Mother Teresa could not beat those charges. But we’ll see. We’ll see how we do. It’s a very disgraceful situation.”

During his opening monologue on Wednesday’s show, Kimmel laughed as he analyzed the comparison made by the former president.

“Yeah, even if Mother Teresa herself had sex with and paid off a porn star after a round of golf, even she would have been getting away with it,” he said. “Mother Teresa has been dead for 27 years… thanks to the corrupt New York Attorney General!”

Turning to the support of the Trump family, Kimmel joked that Melania Trump had not been present for any of the trial because it would be “too hard for