Overview
- On the anniversary, the administration's site asserts Democrats "staged the real insurrection" and describes rioters as "peaceful patriotic protesters."
- The site’s timeline claims "zero law enforcement officers lost their lives," omitting Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and reports of nearly 140 injured officers.
- During his monologue, Kimmel said Trump "tried to overthrow our government" and called him "as un-American as they come," warning against revisionist history.
- Kimmel also said a plaque honoring Capitol defenders was never hung and is now missing after Speaker Mike Johnson declined to display it.
- Pelosi spokesperson Ian Krager condemned the portrayal as a whitewash, as controversy also centers on Trump's 2025 pardons of nearly 1,600 Jan. 6 defendants.