Jimmy Kimmel isn’t a fan of the wrecking ball being taken to the American government by Elon Musk and Donald Trump, joking during his “Jimmy Kimmel” monologue on Monday that between the two of them, America is being controlled by a “dick and a tater.”
Kimmel was of course referring to Musk’s “DOGE” team that has illegally fired thousands of government workers with no thought about what they do, and just as illegally has accessed private taxpayer information, among other crimes.
“What an absolute mess these scoundrels are making of our country,” Kimmel said. The federal government is in unprecedented disarray. The mass firings continue. With no research, they’re just jumping in, chopping off heads. It’s not just that they’re firing thousands of federal workers. It is the glee with which they’re firing,” Kimmel said.
“Ordinarily, you have some compassion when you lay people off. You wish them well. You thank them for their work… not MAGA. Not the DOGE bros. They are throwing career-long civil servants, people, many of whom have worked in these jobs for decades out in the street like they’re fish garbage,” Kimmel said.
“X Luthor, Elon Musk sent out a mass email over the weekend to all federal workers. The subject line was ‘what did you do last week?’ And then ordered them to list the top five things they did at work last week. It’s like the government is being run by BuzzFeed,” he added.
“Meanwhile, while all this so-called ‘cost cutting’ is happening, Liger Woods has already spent $10.7 million dollars of tax money playing golf. Trump has played golf on nine of his first thirty days of work. While you’re making payments on an egg salad sandwich,” Kimmel said, referencing both Trump’s low work ethic and the skyrocketing price of basic goods his policies are directly causing.
“And not only is he busy with golf while laying people off, he amped the hypocrisy up another notch by accusing employees of the government who work-from-home of being out playing golf instead of working at home,” Kimmel continued. “Donald Trump, a guy who literally works from home and is out playing golf instead of working, saying, ‘these work from home employees are out playing golf,’ I mean there’s almost no parallel.”
“It’s like Diddy complaining you bought too much baby oil. Okay? But Trump and his buddy Elon… what a team… we’ve got a dick and a tater in charge of everything,” he added.
Watch the full monologue below: