Jimmy Kimmel has an idea for a new White House appointee Donald Trump may be interested in: Fyre Festival creator Billy McFarland.
“He did four years for wire fraud, for bank fraud and making false statements to law enforcement. How he’s not part of the Trump administration already, I have no idea,” Kimmel said on Tuesday night. “He’d fit right in. The whole country is a Fyre Festival right now, and Elon Musk is just soaking the mattresses.”
The Fyre Festival disaster may be one of the greatest national moments of 2017. Advertised as a luxury music festival, Fyre Festival promised attendees would see big acts like Tyga, blink-182 and Migos all from the comfort of a high-end resort on an island formerly owned by Pablo Escobar. Instead, festival-goers paid upwards of $12,000 to be given literal bread and cheese, scrounge for bottled water and fight over the event’s three showers.
McFarland and fellow festival co-founder Ja Rule were later sued for $100 million in a class-action lawsuit, and McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison.
So why is Kimmel talking about McFarland now in the year of our Lord 2025? Well, because the convicted fraudster is moving forward with a second Fyre Festival in May — only this time around, the cursed event is going to be in Cancun with tickets going for $1,400 to $1.1 million.
“You know what they say: If at first you strand hundreds of people on an island with no food or water, try try again,” the comedian joked. Watch the full “Jimmy Kimmel Live” monologue, above.
