Jimmy Kimmel bleakly summed up Donald Trump’s relationship to legality and the rule of law during his monologue on Wednesday. Noting that thanks to the shocking U.S. Supreme Court decision in Trump v. U.S., the president has been given semi-kingly power, Kimmel said that Trump, being above the law, is like ‘a chubbier Steven Seagal.”
He got to this joke by talking about the wrecking ball Trump and his cronies like Elon Musk are taking to the U.S. government.
“The prices Trump said he would lower on day one are still high, our eggs have the flu, and half the Department of Education is about to get laid off,” Kimmel said. “The new Secretary of Education is Linda McMahon, who’s married to Vince McMahon of the WWE. Can you imagine getting fired by the wife of the disgraced wrestling meathead? ‘Don’t let the folding chair hit you on the way out!’
Kimmel was referring to this, and this, by the way.
“Here’s a math problem, okay? If the Department of Education has 4,000 employees and the President cuts 50% of the workforce, how many edibles do I need to get through the next four years?” Kimmel joked.
“Trump, really, he’s Thanos-ed the Department of Education. Goodbye, Half of the Department of Education. Goodbye half the National Park service. Goodbye half our allies. Goodbye half of your 401K! They all disappear and they’re not coming back,” He continued.
Kimmel noted that “by law now, Trump cannot close the Department of Education, he has to have an act of Congress to do that. But luckily for him, the Supreme Court ruled last year that by law, he doesn’t have to do things by law.”
“He is above the law. Like a chubbier Steven Seagal if you will.”
Watch the monologue below:
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