Sometimes you can’t make this stuff up. In an unbelieveable Tonight Show skit Thursday, NBC literally treated Education Secretary Betsy DeVos like she was a disobedient pet or a mentally challenged child. An actress playing DeVos repeatedly mispronounces her own name, eats paper, and says she’s getting rid of textbooks because “they’re too heavy,” all the while speaking in a baby-like voice. This audacious sketch comes after NBC smeared DeVos as an idiot on Wednesday night’s Tonight Show and Late Night.
The segment began with host Jimmy Fallon stating Betsy DeVos had “no real experience in public education.” But, he said, they wanted to give her “a chance to defend herself,” before introducing the actress playing DeVos.
The actress playing DeVos then appears via “satellite” excitedly repeating in a child-like voice, “Hi Jimmy, hi Jimmy!” while facing away from the camera.
She continued by reading off homemade notecards, saying she was very “exit-ed” to be there running the “ed-u-cake boss” department. Fallon corrected her as she misread each item, including her own name. He then asked her what she planned to do with the Department.
DeVos said her first plan was to get rid of textbooks that were “too heavy” with “too many words.” She then explains that schools will transfer over to a “pamphlet based” education system, holding up a pamphlet with Trump’s face on it.
DEVOS: It tells how the dinosaurs fought the vikings then went on to form the band "America." Which had great hits like "A horse with no name." But I actually know the horse's name. It's Cinnamon! I love Cinnamon!
DeVos then holds up the pamphlet on foreign languages that “Trump wrote himself,” which read, “Just speak English.” The actress then began to chew and eat the whole paper while Fallon tries to get her to stop.
“Don’t eat the pamphlet, No Betsy. Put it down! Betsy, put that down!” Fallon commanded to the fake DeVos as if she were a disobedient dog. “Don’t eat the pamphlet!” Fallon ordered again, as the DeVos actress chewed up the paper.
She also touts writing a new “Pledge of Allegiance” that she “actually wrote herself” before reciting the nonsensical “pledge.”
DEVOS: I pledge allegiance to the frog of the untied states of macarena. And to the Reince Priebus for which it stands one nae nae under dog, invisible….
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