Jimmy Kimmel Hosts Drag Queen Storytime with Trixie Mattel Reading Eric Trump’s New Book to Kids

“Lis­ten, we have to pay respect because this ghost writer worked real­ly hard on this,” the ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ alum told a group of ele­men­tary school chil­dren in the seg­ment

• Dur­ing the Oct. 15 episode of Jim­my Kim­mel Live!, RuPaul’s Drag Race alum Trix­ie Mat­tel made an appear­ance to host a Drag Queen Sto­ry­time seg­ment, in which she read a group of chil­dren Eric Trump’s new book
• The book — Under Siege: My Fam­i­ly’s Fight to Save Our Nation — was not well-received by the chil­dren and was pre­vi­ous­ly roast­ed by late-night host Jim­my Kim­mel
• Mat­tel’s sto­ry hour comes fol­low­ing a push to ban drag and stop queens from inter­act­ing with chil­dren

Jim­my Kim­mel teamed up with RuPaul’s Drag Race star Trix­ie Mat­tel to host a Drag Queen Sto­ry­time, dur­ing which the queen read Eric Trump’s new book to a group of chil­dren.

On the Wednes­day, Oct. 15 episode of Jim­my Kim­mel Live!, the 57-year-old late-night host roast­ed Don­ald Trump’s sec­ond son, 41, for the release of his new mem­oir Under Siege: My Fam­i­ly’s Fight to Save Our Nation.

Dur­ing his open­ing mono­logue, Kim­mel called out mixed reviews that the book received on Ama­zon, say­ing that “there are only two kinds of reviews.”

There’s one star and five star; there’s noth­ing in between, which is sad because it shows how divid­ed this coun­try is, and that’s not good for any­one,” Kim­mel told his audi­ence. “So in order to build a bridge and to join hands through lit­er­a­ture, we asked a promi­nent mem­ber of the left to read Eric Trump’s book to young peo­ple so they could decide on their own what they think about it.”

He then cut to a pre-record­ed video of Mat­tel, 36, read­ing the book to a group of ele­men­tary school stu­dents in a class­room.

“Do I scare any of you?” Mat­tel, who won the third sea­son of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars in 2018, asked the chil­dren, who assured her that they were not fright­ened, with one pro­claim­ing, “You just look amaz­ing. Why would that be scary?”

Mat­tel then asked if they want­ed to help her pick a book to read, explain­ing that the goal of a democ­ra­cy is to “choose one togeth­er.”

Because this is, after all, a democ­ra­cy,” she quipped. “As of this morn­ing, it’s still a democ­ra­cy. I’m not sure…”

“Don­ald Trump is cer­tain­ly ‘uncon­ven­tion­al.’ He is cer­tain­ly not ‘polit­i­cal­ly cor­rect.’ He also has a heart of gold and is the great­est father a son or daugh­ter could ever have,” the Trix­ie Cos­met­ics founder read from the mem­oir, only to be inter­rupt­ed by one of the chil­dren.

“Okay, I’m going to stop you there,” they said. “Instead of skip­ping this page, we should skip the entire book. No, instead, we should skip the entire sto­ry­time and just go straight to lunch because I’m pret­ty hun­gry right now.

The chil­dren also asked for a pic­ture book with Mat­tel hold­ing up a col­lec­tion of pho­tos in the book and say­ing that they were “not that great.”

“How is it that my father — who spent over four decades in the pub­lic eye — nev­er once received a speed­ing tick­et, tri­umphed in the 2016 cam­paign and became Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States and was sud­den­ly charged with almost every crime imag­in­able, and many unimag­in­able in the after­math?” Mat­tel con­tin­ued to read from the book as one child pro­claimed that it “does­n’t make any sense