Late-night hosts discussed Donald Trump’s “childish” behavior at the G7 summit, his reportedly catastrophic peace deal with Iran and a blunder over Middle East geography. Jimmy Kimmel On Jimmy Kimmel Live, the host remarked on Trump “throwing his weight around” at the current G7 summit in France, showing up 45 minutes late to a meeting with world leaders and introducing himself by saying: “Hello, I’m the boss.” “They must hate him so much, right?” said Kimmel. “Can you imagine the conversations that go on behind his back. “Trump’s behavior at the G7 is increasingly childish each time he goes,” the host continued. “These other foreign leaders, I feel sorry for them, dealing with him. It’s like opening up a can of soda that got shaken up: you know it’s gonna spray, but all you can really do is aim it away from your face.” Kimmel then turned to Republicans calling Trump’s Iran deal “a tremendous foreign policy blunder”, giving Tehran the power to shut down the strait of Hormuz “any time they want”. “Dagnabbit, we got Hormuzled!” he laughed. At the G7 summit the president called it a “very strong deal … nobody knows what it is, but it’s very strong”. “That’s how you describe the smell of a dead person before you find the body,” Kimmel laughed. “Just to recap: we killed the ayatollah and replaced him with a younger, more radical ayatollah. We did nothing for the protesters in Iran,” the host continued. “We used up who knows how many billions of dollars on bombs and missiles. Many American and civilian lives were lost. We gave Iran full control of the strait of Hormuz and we threw in a minimum of $300bn, ’cause why not? “Right now, Melania’s wondering, ‘How do I get a deal like that?’ “It just goes to show you: there’s no problem that Trump can’t make worse,” Kimmel said. “The one area in which the war’s been a rousing success is it did take our attention away from the Trump-Epstein files,” he deadpanned. “But don’t worry, the second it is really over, we will get right back into that.” Seth Meyers Over on NBC, Seth Meyers’ Late Night monologue focused on Trump’s Wednesday press conference where he told the media that “war is a nasty place. I see it. I see it maybe better than anyone has seen it.” “I don’t know …” responded Meyers. “There’s maybe a couple of people who’ve seen it better. Off the top of my head: soldiers. “When they say they’ve seen war they don’t mean in 4K,” he joked. On Monday, Trump told reporters that the Iran peace deal “should” open up the strait of Hormuz entirely. “It should?” asked Meyers incredulously. “I know you haven’t released the deal, but have you also not read it? It’s one page long. Are you waiting for the audiobook?” In a meeting with the emir of Qatar on Tuesday, the president erroneously said that he could walk across the border between Iran and Qatar (the countries are separated by the water of the Persian Gulf). “Oh no, he thinks he’s Jesus again,” groaned Meyers, flashing up one of Trump’s AI-generated images portraying himself as a God-like figure. Meanwhile, Trump’s renovations to the Lincoln memorial reflecting pool have resulted in the water’s surface being covered by algae just days after reopening. “Yikes, I thought Trump had dementia, but now I think it might be malaria,” Meyers said. “Move over strait of Hormuz, we got bigger water problems right now!” he said. “This looks like the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, brought to you by Mountain Dew.” In other news, a Texas woman has filed a lawsuit against McDonald’s for selling her a sausage McMuffin that she describes as “wholly unfit for human consumption”. “Well, yeah …” said Meyers. “It says that right on the sticker.”

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump giving Iran $300bn: ‘Melania’s wondering, ‘How can I get that deal?’’

The new London Museum will be “a social space for the city”, its director has said, hosting afternoon tea events, monthly dinner clubs and late-night DJ sets where visitors can mingle among the artefacts while dancing. Sharon Ament said that when it reopened later this year the museum would be a “democratic” space that engaged with all Londoners rather than merely a repository for its collections, which stretch from the city’s neolithic prehistory to modern acquisitions. “I want commuters to pass through the museum on their way to and from work. I want people to extend their evenings in a museum, in a way which is a different form of going out,” Ament said. “Maybe they’ll stay for an hour, maybe they’ll stay right until we close, maybe they’ll do a club night. We need to match our opening times to how people actually operate in their daily lives. “We are funded by the taxpayers of London, so our responsibility is to all Londoners.” The institution, formerly known as the Museum of London, has been closed since 2022 when it vacated its eccentric former premises in the Barbican complex. Its new home, painstakingly converted over a decade from two historic former market halls in Smithfield, in the City of London, will open on 28 November, it announced on Thursday. Paul Williams, the principal director of the lead architects Stanton Williams, said: “It’s not just about a container for objects, but it’s a space where people are going to interact with each other.” He said the museum would be “an arena for public life”. The cavernous market halls will be connected by a former London street, now glazed, with openings at either end to welcome visitors inside. What was once the trading floor of the Victorian General Market will host a full programme of cultural events, with the first, called London Tastes, focusing on the diversity of the capital’s food scene. Events will sit alongside objects drawn from the museum’s collection of 7m artefacts, which include the Cheapside Hoard of 17th-century jewels, the vest worn by Charles I when he was beheaded in 1649 and a chunk of the Whitechapel fatberg, collected from the capital’s sewers in 2017. Other acquisitions made during the museum’s temporary closure include a police sentry box decorated with piranhas by Banksy in 2024 and the Bloomberg Collection of 14,000 Roman artefacts, discovered during construction of the news organisation’s headquarters in 2014 and donated to the museum last year. The £437m project has been funded by the corporation of London and the mayor of London, with a range of other donors including the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Ament said: “Moving into a market really made us think differently about how we could possibly be as a museum. What we’ve all learned is that markets make absolutely fantastic museums, because of all the intrinsic qualities of a market that I don’t think are necessarily always built into museums. A market is a social space so we are a social place.” She said this approach was something that many other museum directors had been “grasping towards”, but they were often hampered by their institutional culture or historic buildings. Nonetheless, she said, “gone are the days where museums are led by [obsessions] of academics whose deep interest in Etruscan vases means that there is a very niche story to be told and a niche audience out there. “I see museum colleagues really opening their doors in new and profoundly exciting ways. We could all do it a bit more.” • The article and its subheading were amended on Thursday 18 June 2026 to remove a suggestion that the museum’s collection of 7m artefacts will all be housed at the museum.

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