Hillary On 'Kimmel': 'Free Stuff,' Trump, 'SNL,'And 'Fixing' Jeb

Hillary Clinton made a visit to Jimmy Kimmel Live on Thursday night, and the host split the difference between Stephen Colbert’s crisp political conversations and Jimmy Fallon’s non-stop goofball joking.

Kimmel excels at taped pieces and is especially good at interviewing children. He used Clinton well when he invited four children — two girls and two boys — into a room for an “Out of Focus Group” session. Before Clinton entered the room, the boys said they didn’t think women would be President: “too girly,” one said; “they’d want [to give out] free make-up in the world,” said the other. Asked about a woman as Commander In Chief, a girl said she thought a woman President “would make a [war] stop, so more people wouldn’t die.”

When Clinton entered, most knew who she was, and she asked them what they’d like her to do as President. “Free food in restaurants” and “free stuff in stores” were two suggestions. (Did you get that, Bill O’Reilly? This “free stuff” thing has sunk down to pre-teens now.)

In their one-on-one interview, Clinton told Kimmel she’d watched the Republican debates with “a combination of being appalled and amused.” Kimmel asked her if she was going to watch Donald Trump host Saturday Night Live this weekend, and she said, “That I might do… I hear he watched me” when she did SNL.

When Kimmel pulled out a picture of Hillary and Bill Clinton at Trump’s wedding, she said she’s known Trump a long time, there are things she likes about him personally, but was quick to add, “I disagree with him about immigration, about [the role of] women,” and she noted that she think Trump and some other candidates take extreme positions “to appeal to the far, far right.”

Kimmel asked Clinton if, behind the scenes, she feels “sorry” for Jeb Bush’s troubled campaign and whether she “dies laughing” at his new slogan “Jeb Can Fix It.” Clinton tried to be mild, saying it’s “really hard” to run for President, but couldn’t resist suggesting that maybe Bush should add a phone number to his repair truck so voters could phone in their fix-it requests to Jeb.

Clinton also suggested that she still lives in a competitive home. She said that if the laws were changed, her husband “would run — if he could, he would.” Asked if she could beat him in an election tomorrow, she said blithely: “Sure.”

Jimmy Kimmel Live airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on ABC.