Jimmy Kimmel hit back at the White House Thursday after spokesperson Davis Ingle issued a “not so fabulous” statement concerning the late-night host’s jokes about White House press secretary Katie Zacharia.

“Jimmy Kimmel is a no-talent loser who has beclowned himself with tanking ratings and by spewing disgusting lies to his dwindling audience,” Ingle said in a statement to Fox News. “He is so devoid of actual talent that nobody with any common sense would ever watch him unless it was to laugh at his miserable failures.”

During the show’s opening monologue, Kimmel asked his studio audience if they wondered what a man who uses the word “beclowned” looks like – then showed a picture of Ingle.

“You can see him here clicking on his pen moments before they buckled him into a booster seat on Air Force One,” Kimmel cracked while referring to Ingle as “Davis Dingle.”

Kimmel then implored Ingle to give him another chance.

“What do Katie Zacharia and Pete Hegseth have in common?” Kimmel asked. “Neither one of them can pass a bar.”

“Come on. That’s solid, right?” Kimmel added.

Watch Kimmel’s full opening monologue from Thursday night’s show here:

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