Overview
- The Oct. 15 Jimmy Kimmel Live! episode featured Trixie Mattel leading a Drag Queen Storytime centered on Eric Trump’s Under Siege: My Family’s Fight to Save Our Nation.
- Mattel began by asking the children if she scared them, and they replied that she looked amazing and that they were not frightened.
- Reading excerpts from the memoir, she traded quips as the kids reacted negatively, urged skipping the book or storytime, and one censored remark referenced kicking Donald Trump.
- The segment concluded with a tongue-in-cheek “science experiment” in which Mattel and the children shredded a copy of Under Siege, saying it would make “excellent confetti.”
- Kimmel introduced the bit by noting the book’s one-star-or-five-star Amazon reviews and saying the aim was to let young people judge for themselves, with coverage situating the satire within ongoing battles over drag storytimes and related state laws challenged in court since 2023.