‘Paul Ryan Is Standing There, Smiling and Waving Like an Animatronic Forrest Gump’
Jimmy Kimmel did a great job of recapping the Donald Trump presidency Thursday night while blasting Republican House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes, author of the highly controversial Nunes memo.
The ABC late-night talk show host got a little personal with Nunes – showing his high school yearbook photo and saying “he looks like the disturbed cousin the comes to visit in a very special episode of an 80’s sitcom.”
Kimmel explained how Trump targets for destruction anything and anyone who disagrees with him or criticizes him.Â
“When a newspaper digs whatever you did up, and publishes a story about it, you don’t just attack the facts, you don’t just attack the story, you attack the newspaper,’ Kimmel said of Trump. “The newspaper is biased. Even if the newspaper clearly isn’t biased.”
“That’s Step 1. Step 2 is when multiple newspapers, and news organizations, and reporters, further an investigation, whatever it is, when they report something you don’t like. If you’re the President now, you don’t just attack the newspapers or the news networks, you attack ‘the media.’ You say ‘the media is biased.’ You call them the ‘elite media.’ They’re all in league together. Everyone except ‘Fox & Friends’ is plotting to get you. Because they don’t want America to be great again!†Kimmel mocked.
“And then, once the media is playing defense, you climb another rung,” he explained. “When the FBI steps in and starts sniffing around and handing out subpoenas…what do you do? Same thing you always do…You discredit the FBI, you discredit the special counsel, you discredit anybody who might possibly come up with information you don’t like.”
But he saved his best shots for GOP House Speaker Paul Ryan, who’s “watching all this happen like the ringmaster at the world’s most perverted circus.”
“The lions are eating the horses. The tightropes are snapping, clowns are attacking children,” Kimmel charged. “And Paul Ryan is standing there, smiling and waving like an animatronic Forrest Gump.”
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Hat tip: Deadline