Actor Anthony Anderson, guest-hosting “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” this week while Mr. Kimmel remains on vacation, used Tuesday’s monologue to mock President Trump over last month’s secret plane swap in Turkey.
Setting up the bit with a montage of Mr. Trump calling America “the hottest country in the world,” Anderson quipped, “Well, all I have to say is wait till he gets to hell.”
Anderson then turned to reports that Mr. Trump slipped from Air Force One into an airport catering truck outside a NATO summit in Ankara amid a reported Iranian threat, before boarding a smaller military jet. “Now I’m no security expert, but if I was trying to find Donald Trump, a catering truck is the first place I’d look,” he joked, adding, “Next time, hide his ass in a bookmobile.”
“Apparently, after the NATO summit last month, Trump hid inside a catering cart to sneak out of Turkey due to security threats,” he continued. “And let’s give it up. Let’s give it up to the Secret Service. Do you know how hard it is to sneak a pig out of Turkey?”
Mr. Trump addressed the episode Tuesday night on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews, telling reporters the switch was ordered by the Secret Service and military.
“I guess there was a threat out there. I didn’t really ask too much about it. I get a lot of threats,” he said.
Anderson has been filling in for Kimmel all week.
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