“By the end of the year, you’ll all have tin foil hats and jars of urine by your desks.”įinally, Minhaj hit CNN. “There isn’t going to be a line that says ‘Bribes from Russia’… I want to root you guys but you’re turning into conspiracy theorists every night.” “Please tell Rachel Maddow to please chill about Trump’s tax returns,” Minhaj continued. It’s like if a bunch of stripper cops had to solve a real-life murder.”Īt this point the mood in the room turned, and from then on whenever the camera panned to the crowd it showed a sea of polite, but indisputably stonefaced silence. And now you’ve got to take your game to a whole new level. “Remember election night? That was your Steve Harvey Miss Universe moment… Because it was all fun and games with Obama, right? You were covering an adult who could speak English. “Unlike Anderson Cooper’s bone structure, you have been far from perfect,” Minhaj began. And as with Trump – about whom he said “every time Trump goes golfing the headline should read ‘Trump golfing: apocalypse delayed’” – he pulled zero punches. But what they might not have expected is that Minhaj was coming for them next.Īfter 10 minutes or so talking about the Trump administration, Minhaj turned his attention back to the press. Minhaj softened up the crowd by opening with some jokes at the expense of USA Today, a paper he said is “what happens when the coupon section takes over the newspaper.” That drew polite, but nervous laughter, since USA Today was in the room, and the crowd was rightly inclined to show some professional courtesy.
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