BREAKING: Jimmy Fallon torches Trump for calling Jon Ossoff Pinky Herman in bizarre Georgia rant. [P4CsTWkEs8W]
BREAKING: Jimmy Fallon torches Trump for calling Jon Ossoff "Pinky Herman" in bizarre Georgia rant Trump went to a Georgia high school this week to talk about savings accounts for children and ended up losing a fight with a name he could not remember. He was on stage in Marietta promoting his new Trump Accounts program when he abandoned the script entirely and started swinging at Georgia's Democratic senator, and what came out of his mouth has been playing on a loop ever since. Trump told the crowd that Georgia believes in common sense and then went after Senator Jon Ossoff, claiming Democrats in Congress vote with communists every single time and that he had beaten Ossoff before. Then he reached for an insult and grabbed the wrong one entirely. "He reminds me of Pinky Herman," Trump said. "Did you ever see Pinky Herman?" Nobody has, because Pinky Herman does not exist. The intended reference was clearly Pee-wee Herman, the children's television character played by the late Paul Reubens, and the president of the United States could not land it in front of a room full of high schoolers who have almost certainly never heard of either one. Jimmy Fallon saw an opening and took it. On Thursday night's Tonight Show, he imagined Ossoff firing back in full Pee-wee voice with "I know you are, but what am I?" and danced around the stage repeating the punchline while the audience howled. He was not finished either. Fallon added that Pinky Herman sounded like the guy who ripped Trump off on the Reflecting Pool, then imagined Trump mangling more names, saying his all time favorites were "Mikey Mouse" and "Sponge Boob." The closing line was the one that stuck. "You got to give Trump credit," Fallon said. "He mispeaks in ways nobody ever thought possible." It would be easy to write the whole thing off as a slip of the tongue, except that this keeps happening and the pattern is getting harder to ignore. A man who spends his days demanding total loyalty and absolute deference cannot get through a single rally without garbling a name, a country, or a decade. The people around him have decided the safest move is to keep booking the events and hope nobody is paying close attention. But everybody is paying attention, and now the whole country has a new nickname to laugh about. Trump went to Marietta to attack Jon Ossoff and handed a late night comedian the easiest monologue of the year instead.