"This weekend, former President Trump spoke at North Carolina's Republican convention, but all anyone's talking about is the way his pants looked," Jimmy Fallon said on Monday's Tonight Show. "It's like he's wearing a fanny pack on the inside of his pants. It looks like he bumped into something and his pants deployed an airbag." But mostly, he said, "a lot of people are saying it looks like his pants were on backward — well, it's already inspired a new ad." The tagline: "You're gonna like the way your front butt looks. I guarantee it."
Trump "said a bunch of stuff" at the North Carolina GOP convention, "but nobody paid attention because it looked like he wore his pants backwards," Stephen Colbert said at The Late Show. There didn't appear to be a zipper, suggesting "he shares a tailor with a Ken doll or he spends so much time yanking stuff out of his keister, he just likes to have the zipper back there to make it easy."
Sadly, "the backward pants party abruptly ended when the fact-shacklers over at Snopes.com clarified no, the former president did not wear his pants backwards," Colbert sighed. It turns out that when you look at the high-resolution photo, "its clear he's got a zipper. Normally when you pay that much attention to his crotch, you get $130,000. But this is alarming, because it can only mean one thing: Something on the internet isn't true!"
The Week
Escape your echo chamber. Get the facts behind the news, plus analysis from multiple perspectives.
Sign up for The Week's Free Newsletters
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter, get the best of The Week delivered directly to your inbox.
"Fiberacci did 90 minutes of mostly old material," but his apparent backwards-pants "wardrobe malfunction" stole the show, Jimmy Kimmel said on Kimmel Live. "Poor Mike Pence didn't know which end to kiss, it was very confusing." Trump's pants reversal "was just a revolting illusion," but it spawned real "hilarious headlines," he said, and "backward-seeming pants seems to be a problem for Republican politicians in general."
"This is a shocker: Fox News didn't even show Trump's speech," Kimmel said. "It's like if TBS passed on a new episode of Big Bang Theory — it's unheard of."
-
Is the ceasefire in Gaza really working?Today's Big Question Neither Israel and Hamas has an interest in a full return to hostilities but ‘brutally simple arithmetic’ in region may scupper peace plan long-term
-
Are boomers the real phone addicts?In The Spotlight There’s an ‘explosion in screentime’ among older people – and they’re more vulnerable to misinformation
-
West End Girl: a ‘tremendously touching’ break-up albumThe Week Recommends Lily Allen’s unfiltered new work is ‘littered with relatable moments’
-
How Maga fell out of love with beerIn The Spotlight Right-wingers in the US have boycotted beverage brands that fell foul of culture war, and now some are going fully sober
-
Hungary’s Krasznahorkai wins Nobel for literatureSpeed Read László Krasznahorkai is the author of acclaimed novels like ‘The Melancholy of Resistance’ and ‘Satantango’
-
Primatologist Jane Goodall dies at 91Speed Read She rose to fame following her groundbreaking field research with chimpanzees
-
Bad Bunny headlining the Super Bowl thrills and ranklesIN THE SPOTLIGHT The Puerto Rican superstar’s upcoming halftime performance has fans ecstatic, even as some conservatives gripe
-
One Battle After Another: a ‘terrifically entertaining’ watchThe Week Recommends Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest release is a ‘high-octane action thriller’ and a ‘surefire Oscar frontrunner’
-
Television personalities who have come under fireIn Depth Jimmy Kimmel is the latest TV host to be swept up in controversy
-
Florida erases rainbow crosswalk at Pulse nightclubSpeed Read The colorful crosswalk was outside the former LGBTQ nightclub where 49 people were killed in a 2016 shooting
-
Trump says Smithsonian too focused on slavery's illsSpeed Read The president would prefer the museum to highlight 'success,' 'brightness' and 'the future'
