Jimmy Fallon has brutally mocked President Donald Trump’s Cabinet purge, pointing out the irony that one of the only officials “immune” to being fired is the same one who claims he is resistant to infections because he used to do cocaine off of toilet seats.
“Yep, Trump’s on a bit of a firing spree. First Kristi Noem, then Pam Bondi,” the late-night comic said on his Thursday show. “Ironically, the only staffer who has immunity is RFK Jr. Isn’t that weird? Interesting, right, if you think about it.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made outlandish claims over the years, including that vaccines cause autism, which they do not, and that COVID-19 was bioengineered to target certain ethnicities, which it was not. He has even suggested that WiFi can cause cancer, which, as you likely guessed, it does not.
The Kennedy scion, tasked with shaping national health policy and overseeing federal health agencies, prompted further ridicule earlier in February after he made an incredible admission on a MAGA podcast. The 72-year-old told Theo Von he’s “not scared of a germ” because in the 1970s, “I used to snort cocaine off toilet seats.”
Fallon’s joke about the vaccine skeptic’s job security as the nation’s top health authority comes on the heels of Trump firing both his Homeland Security head and Attorney General.
Noem, nicknamed “ICE Barbie” by the Daily Beast for her obsession with dressing up for photo ops, was first to go. Trump fired her on March 5, days after she testified before lawmakers that the president was aware of her $220 splurge on a self-serving DHS advertising campaign.
Noem was also scrutinized over her efforts to purchase a $172 million luxury Boeing jet with taxpayer money and over reports of managerial carnage under her and her top aide, Corey Lewandowski, with whom she’s accused of having an affair.
“Of course, being fired by Trump is never fun,” Kimmel said Thursday. “Kristi Noem was like, ‘True, but things can definitely get worse, so…” he added, referencing reports that revealed her husband has a secret life as a cross-dressing member of an online fetish community.
Next on the chopping block was Bondi, who was fired on Thursday after months of intense criticism over her handling of the so-called Epstein files, as well as her failure to successfully prosecute a number of the president’s political adversaries.
“Meanwhile, when Trump realized he fired the woman with access to all the Epstein files, he was like, ‘Oh, c–-p! Uh, Pam, you’re not fired, you’re redacted,” Fallon joked. “Apparently, Trump was also upset that Bondi didn’t go after his enemies. Bondi was like, ‘So you want me to arrest NATO, Bruce Springsteen, and the ice-cream machine at McDonald’s!?’”
Kennedy’s name has not come up in any of the growing reports about who Trump is considering axing next. However, there are rumblings that the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and the FBI Director Kash Patel may have their days numbered.
In response to a request for comment, Whitre House spokesperson Kush Desai told the Daily Beast: “President Trump maintains the utmost confidence in Secretary Kennedy because he and the entire HHS team continue to deliver on the President’s agenda to Make America Healthy Again.”
