Jimmy Kimmel says Trump has Vance to thank for ‘worst moment of any debate ever’

Jimmy Kimmel said Donald Trump has his running mate JD Vance to thank for the “worst moment of any debate ever” where he peddled a wild lie about migrants eating pets.

“I had a liberal elite day today,” Kimmel said on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday, before immediately trolling Trump for his litany of false claims during and leading up to the political face-off against Kamala Harris.

“I woke up, I ate a big cat for breakfast, and then I had a baby – then I had an abortion right after that. Then I went to pick up my kids from their mandatory transgender surgery operations after school, and now I'm back here spreading Marxist propaganda on TV.”

The GOP presidential candidate made numerous wild, false claims during the debate, with one standing out in particular: a debunked claim that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, are eating pet dogs and cats.

“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating – they’re eating the pets of the people that live there. And this is what’s happening in our country, and it’s a shame,” Trump proclaimed in his odd rant.

Kimmel roasted Trump over the comments, calling it “maybe the worst moment of any debate ever” and blaming Trump's running mate for putting it on the Republican presidential candidate's radar in the first place.

“JD decided, ‘I'm going to make this the centrepiece of every stump speech,’” Kimmel said.

“Then it wiggled its way into Trump's little brain and now this imbecile is forced to defend it constantly.”

Vance had stirred up baseless rumor on social media prior to the debate.

The falsehood appears to have originated from a Springfield Facebook group warning residents that family pets, such as cats and dogs, were