WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel gets choked up reflecting on Trump win

Jimmy Kimmel utilized his post-election nighttime monologue to enactment done his emotions, and overmuch of the country’s, aft Donald Trump won his 2nd bid astatine re-election.

The 56-year-old Emmy winner opened Wednesday’s occurrence of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” reeling aft Trump won retired against Vice President Kamala Harris.

“It was a terrible nighttime for women, for children, for the hundreds of thousands of hardworking immigrants who marque this state go,” said the Brooklyn native, arsenic helium paused to constitute himself.

“For healthcare, for our climate, for science, for journalism, for justice, for escaped speech. It was a unspeakable nighttime for mediocre people, for the mediate class, for seniors who trust connected societal security, for our allies successful Ukraine, for NATO, for the information and ideology and decency.”

Kimmel added that Trump’s triumph won’t conscionable wounded Harris’ supporters but his arsenic well.

“You conscionable don’t recognize it yet,” helium said to applause. “But it was a truly bully nighttime for Putin and for polio and for billionaires similar Elon Musk. … It doesn’t mean we springiness up, but it besides doesn’t mean we tempest the Capitol due to the fact that we don’t similar the result.”

Kimmel said that, similar galore people, helium was struggling to find a metallic lining.

“The champion I tin travel up with is, we’ve been done this erstwhile before, and yes, this clip it is astir apt gonna beryllium worse, possibly a batch worse,” helium said. “But I besides deliberation we volition look backmost and recognize that successful the agelong run, this is what we needed to aftermath america up. Maybe the radical who attraction truthful overmuch astir him request to find retired however small helium cares astir them.”

Kimmel added that helium hopes Trump does grant his connection “about stopping wars and imposing tariffs and however he’s gonna crush ostentation and chopped taxes.

“I anticipation his adjacent unpredictable enactment is to scope crossed the aisle and bash thing positive. The bar’s low. He has an accidental to triumph america over,” said Kimmel. “Maybe this clip he’ll daze america and bash immoderate productive things. He won’t, probably, but helium could. Or possibly the lone bully portion of each this is helium can’t tally again successful 2028.”

Kimmel besides joked that helium hopes Trump volition “let maine share a situation compartment with Taylor Swift.

“We’ll spot however comic that is successful six months, erstwhile the large speech amusement big roundup begins,” helium said.