Jimmy Fallon waded into political waters during his monologue on Wednesday’s “The Tonight Show,” and given the prevalence of the story, he of course talked a lot about the scandal over the Trump Administration’s military plans breach on Signal.
Fallon compared the incident unfavorably to some of the, uh, colorful characters associated with President Donald Trump’s first term in office. He also noted that this would never have happened when Joe Biden was president — but only because “he didn’t know how to text.”
Now, we assume you’re familiar with the story: Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, was accidentally added to a group chat on the Signal app by a Trump official. Said chat involved multiple other Trump officials, including Secretary of State Pete Hegseth, and they were discussing classified military plans. But if you need a catch up, read this.
Meanwhile, Fallon noted, “The White House is doing damage control over the military group chat scandal, and today, the reporter who broke the story published all of these screenshots from the chat. The most humiliating part of the group chat is that some of the text messages were green.” (The joke being that there was someone on the chat using an Android phone instead of an iPhone.)
“Who knew we’d missed the more competent days of Omarosa and Rudy Giuliani,” Fallon joked soon after. “Yes, say what you want. This never would have happened under Biden. For starters, he didn’t know how to text. So I mean, that would never have happened. Never.”
Fallon then quipped, “Trump held an emergency meeting to decide what scandal he’s going to introduce to make this scandal go away.”
There’s more of course, and you can watch the whole thing below now:
