Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers frown at 'Donald Corleone' threatening Micheal Cohen
On Wednesday's Tonight Show, Jimmy Fallon poked fun at Trump's manipulated social media photos and State of the Union flop, and he came up with some follow-up tweets to Trump's "Build a Wall & Crime Will Fall" tweet, including "Not paying TSA agents may be controversial / But what do I care? I don't fly commercial." And "get this, Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is delaying his testimony in Congress because he says he's been threatened by Trump, which could actually be witness tampering," Fallon said. "So now Trump's being investigated for collusion, obstruction, and witness tampering — or as Robert Mueller put it, 'I got Bingo.'"
Right, "just in case things aren't thuggish enough" with the shutdown, Jimmy Kimmel said on Kimmel Live, "the president made a rambling phone call to Fox News during which he somewhat ominously suggested that someone should investigate Michael Cohen's father-in-law, and then he did another interview with Fox News and made insinuations about Michael Cohen's wife. ... Remind me, which Godfather are we on now?"
"While Donald Corleone is settling scores, you have the vice president of the United States staying on top of international affairs," with bad Spanish aimed at Venezuelans, and yet another White House tell-all by a disaffected former Trump aide, Kimmel said, annoyed. "He's always been bad at everything," he vented. "The world's lamest Pizza Hut spokesman is running the United States, of course things are bad."
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"Trump has been claiming in interviews that Cohen's father-in-law did something illegal, although he doesn't seem to know many details," Seth Meyers noted at Late Night. "You just said he committed a crime but you don't know his name? Is he Zorro?" Cohen is at the center of a contested BuzzFeed story reporting that Trump ordered Cohen to lie to Congress. "Here's the thing about the BuzzFeed story," Meyers said. "We're in this weird place right now where we keep waiting for another smoking gun when what we already know is incredibly damning." Watch him explain below. Peter Weber
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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.
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