On Thursday’s “The Tonight Show,” host Jimmy Fallon had a string of jokes that showed how shocking the claim is that Donald Trump can declassify documents just by thinking about it, as does the former president. told Sean Hannity in a now-viral interview. Wednesday. Fallon also joked that such a lapse would only help Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s presidential prospects for 2024.
“Ron DeSantis was walking home looking, ‘Okay, I guess we’re going to have to start printing those campaign posters – here we go!,'” Fallon said, leading up to his monologue.
Sitting down with “Hannity” in an exclusive interview on Wednesday, Trump told the Fox News program that “it’s not a process, as I understand it” to declassify top secret documents, defending the fact that That he did not follow protocol with documents found at Mar-a-Lago. “Different people say different things, but as I understand it, this doesn’t have to be the case. If you’re the President of the United States, you can declassify just by saying, ‘It’s unclassified’. , even thinking about it.”
After playing the clip to this in-studio audience, Fallon looked downright confused, holding hands at his temples and pretending to do a Jedi mind-trick bit while concentrating.
“Hannity was like, ‘Oh, I get you the insanity plea,'” he joked again. “‘It makes sense now.'”
“I felt like he was close to using the word abracadabra,” Fallon continued.
Moving on to Trump’s Hannity interview, Fallon pulled a second clip in which the twice-impeached former president suggests the FBI raided Mar-a-Lago to look for Hillary Clinton’s infamously deleted email.
Trump said in the clip, “What they did, because of the FBI’s arrival at Mar-a-Lago and the gravity of the raid, was they were looking for Hillary Clinton emails that were deleted, but they’re somewhere around ?”.
“Wait you’re not saying you had?” Hannity replied, clearly confused.
“No, they must have been saying, they would have thought, that it was there,” Trump said.
“At the time, even the people at QAnon were like, ‘Well that plot sounds a little crazy, it’s a little too much for us,'” Fallon joked.
“You have to give Trump credit, though: He knows how to say something so crazy that it actually sounds normal to the last crazy thing,” concluded the late-night host.
Watch the full monologue in the video above.
