A week after convicted felon Donald Trump won a second presidential term in the White House, the twice-impeached former president has already announced several key administration appointments and nominations. On Tuesday, late-night host Jimmy Kimmel took aim at the loyalists Trump has chosen to staff the White House and his Cabinet, from tapping South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem to head the Department of Homeland Security to picking Fox News personality Pete Hegseth to serve as his secretary of defense.
“We’re starting to get more of a sense of what Season Two of the Celebrity Appresident might look like,” said Kimmel. “According to his new chief of staff, Susie Wiles, Trump plans to issue a number of executive orders on day one: He wants four Big Macs, six large fries, two buckets of KFC,” the comic joked, before noting: “In addition, he wants to put executive orders eliminating immigration and in his ongoing fight against the climate.” Kimmel also took a jab at Elon Musk, who Trump announced Tuesday would lead a new “ Department of Government Efficiency ” (DOGE) alongside Vivek Ramaswamy.
“[Musk’s] basically moved into Mar-a-Lago,” Kimmel said before rolling a clip of the Tesla CEO being invited to take a photo with the Trump family at Mar-a-Lago. “Melania was not in the photo, Elon was,” the late-night host pointed out. “Melania, you see what you get for a hundred million dollars?” Elsewhere, Kimmel highlighted Trump’s choice to entrust Noem w.
