Jimmy Fallon Mocks Trump’s Press Secretary Search After Karoline Leavitt’s Exit at 2nd Child
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Updated · The Independent · Aug 14
Jimmy Fallon Mocks Trump’s Press Secretary Search After Karoline Leavitt’s Exit at 2nd Child
3 articles · Updated · The Independent · Aug 14
Summary
Jimmy Fallon used Thursday’s Tonight Show monologue to lampoon Donald Trump’s search for a new White House press secretary after Karoline Leavitt left weeks after returning from maternity leave following the birth of her second child.
Fallon’s sharpest gag tied the vacancy to this week’s report that Trump hid in a hydraulic catering truck at a Turkish airport in July to evade an Iranian assassination threat while Air Force One carried Leavitt, Marco Rubio and the press corps as a decoy.
He also mocked Leavitt’s loyalty, reviving her defense of Trump’s claim that vandals damaged the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before court filings said contractors’ botched installation was actually to blame.
A report cited by Fallon said CNN commentator Scott Jennings was the front-runner, as the host joked Trump could otherwise end up picking a TV character like Bluey.