Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, and Seth Meyers say the state of Trump's speech was long, dry, anti-Mexican


"Between the Super Bowl and the State of the Union, that's six hours of our life we'll never get back," Jimmy Fallon said on Tuesday's Tonight Show. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif), currently "recovering from biting her tongue all night," and Vice President Mike Pence sat awkwardly behind President Trump during the State of the Union address, looking "like two siblings watching 50 Shades of Grey together," Fallon joked. But Pelosi also had a viral moment when she clapped at Trump, "like, 'You're never getting your wall.'"
Fallon noted Trump's rhymed threat to Democrats about no "peace and legislation" if there's "war and investigation" — and he tried out others that fit with the speech: "If you want a president with orange color, we must get rid of Robert Mueller," and "I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like the Mexicans."
Jimmy Kimmel thought Pence and Pelosi looked like "a mom and dad the first Thanksgiving after the divorce," but he agreed that Trump's droned on too long: "His speech was longer than his tie. He spoke for so long, Robert Mueller handed down another five indictments." Still, Kimmel deadpanned, "he had a lot of exciting new ideas. For instance, did you know Mexicans are scary and we need to build a wall to keep them away? ... Trump talked more about fighting aliens tonight than Sigourney Weaver, and the Republicans ate it up."
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"Before Trump's speech even started, we already had one big oops moment: Trump's weirdly crooked tie," Seth Meyers said on Late Night. "Look at that: Trump is so unpopular, even his tie has moved to the left." In fact, he said, with his tax cuts unpopular and wealth taxes polling high in both parties, "Trump decided to take a swipe at the Democratic Socialists in the room." The cameras, of course, turned to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). "Look at Bernie's face," Meyers said. "That's the face he makes when the waiter catches him stuffing sugar packets in his pocket." Peter Weber
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