NBC's comedic hosts Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers went on a late-night witch hunt Wednesday in a desperate attempt to portray Education Secretary pick Betsy DeVos as a flaming idiot. Despite DeVos literally getting confirmed the same day, the networks’ “comedian” hosts seemed to know what DeVos would do in office before she had even done it. In what would’ve been decried as “sexist” if it had been said about a Democrat woman, Fallon and Meyers both made pathetic jokes about DeVos’ intelligence.
It started on NBC’s the Tonight Show, where host Jimmy Fallon opened his show by attacking Trump, then the Education Secretary with a succession of lame jokes.
FALLON: It seems like every day Trump's upset about something else. And I guess now -- this is real. He is complaining that the hand towels on Air Force One are not soft enough. Then the flight attendant said, "Sir, that's my skirt." [laughter]
FALLON: Yesterday Betsy DeVos was officially confirmed as President Trump's Secretary of Education. Now a lot of people are upset about this, saying DeVos doesn't have any public education experience and is considered by many to be unfit for the job.
Fallon then went on to pretend to have a “new standardized test” DeVos had come up with, which included nonsensical questions and finished with a fill-in-the-blank question that read, “What does the Education Secretary do? Detailed answers welcome.” Fallon added, “That worries me a little bit.”
Immediately afterwards Fallon cracked:
FALLON: Another big story is Trump's travel ban. Earlier today he defended the ban by saying, quote, "Even a bad high school student would support it." And Betsy DeVos said, "And thanks to me, we'll have plenty of those so don’t worry about that.”
NBC couldn’t get enough of the DeVos jokes apparently because immediately afterwards on Seth Meyers’ Late Night, the host made another ‘dumb DeVos’ joke:
MEYERS: A new ranking has named Austin as the best American city to live in. Said Betsy DeVos, “Congratulations Vermont!”
If those weren’t gag-worthy enough, ABC and CBS had more lame jokes in store at another cabinet nominee’s expense. This time, it was Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
CBS’ Late Show host Stephen Colbert began his show by going after the “baby grandpa” in an impassioned plea defending Elizabeth Warren’s hackery. At the very end of the show, Colbert runs to a back room, where a bunch of women are jumping up and down and playing musical instruments. He goes to the middle of the room to point to a large white billboard which reads, “Quiet ladies, Jeff Sessions is in session.”
On ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, he also made one pithy remark about Sessions:
KIMMEL: Republicans and Democrats have been David Duke-ing it out over Trump’s nominee for Attorney General Jeff Sessions...
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